1. Literary Devices

2. Definitions Tenor – Idea, what am I trying to describe
Vehicle – Means of Comparison illuminates the tenor
Connotations - Associations

3. Metaphors Comparison Her eyes were pools of blue diamonds
Tenor – her eyes
Vehicle – pools of blue diamonds
Connotations?

4. Metaphors con’t A mighty fortress is our God. Tenor – Our God
Vehicle – mighty fortress
Connotations?

5. Simile Comparison using like or as My love is like a red, red rose.
Tenor – love
Vehicle – red, red rose
Connotations?

6. Simile con’t I love you like a fat kid loves cake. Tenor – love
Vehicle – fat kid loves cake
Connotations?

7. Synesthesia Comparing things with senses Loud shirt Tenor – shirt
Vehicle – loud
Connotations?

8. Synesthesia con’t
He’s hot
Tenor – he
Vehicle – hot
Connotations?

9. Synechdoche Part is the vehicle for an implied whole All eyes up here
Tenor – implied person
Vehicle – eyes
Connotations?

10. Implied Metaphor Look at verb, tenor and vehicle not obvious
You got me twisted
Tenor – me
Vehicle – something twisted
Connotations?

11. Implied Metaphor con’t
She flew into the room
Tenor – she
Vehicle – a bird
Connotations?

12. Metonymy Something used to represent an idea
The White House issued the order last
night.
Tenor – American Government, power, Bush
Vehicle – White House

13. Metonymy con’t You’ve gotta have heart. Tenor – you
Vehicle – emotion, live, love, laugh, soul, passion

14. Personification
Way to describe something inanimate by giving living characteristics, form of implied metaphor
The wind whispered
Tenor – sound
Vehicle – whispered
Connotations?

15. Onomatopoeia
When something is named for the sound it makes, tenor usually implied
He banged his head on the desk.
Tenor – sound and action of banging
Vehicle – banged

16. Symbol Word or object that stands for another word or object
White dove – peace

17. Irony
Opposition or disagreement between what a writer says and what actually happens

18. Situational Irony
Disagreement between expected results and what is actually going to happen.
A man dies on the way to the airport who is afraid of flying.

19. Verbal Irony Author says one thing and really means something else.
It is raining out and it says lovely weather.

20. Tragic/Dramatic Irony
The audience knows something that the characters do not.

21. Paradox
Opposites that contradict each other but still make sense, to think deeper
If God is omnipotent can he create a rock so heavy that he himself cannot lift it?
He can make anything, but he can also lift anything.
Lonely in a crowd.
Deep down he is deeply shallow.