Literary Devices/Figurative Language

• Literary Devices- are components that help an author create meaning through language and words.

• Figurative Language- Language that is not meant to be taken literally.

Imagery

• Language that appeals to the five senses-sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.

Stanza - a group of lines of poetry(The poem below has four stanzas)

Sand Dunes

Sea waves are green and wet,But up from where they die,Rise others vaster yet,And those are brown and dry.

They are the sea made landTo come at the fisher town,And bury in solid sandThe men she could not drown.

She may know cove and cape,But she does not know mankindIf by any change of shape,She hopes to cut off mind.

Men left her a ship to sink:They can leave her a hut as well;And be but more free to thinkFor the one more cast-off shell.

-Robert Frost

Rhythm

• A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (a beat)

(The accent marks show the stressed syllables.)

Ro’ses are red’.Vi’olets are blue’I’ know the an’swer,But, I won’der, do you’?

Repetition• Using the same

word or phrase twice or more for sound effect or meaning

VelvetLet us walk in the white snow In a soundless space;With footsteps quiet and slow, At a tranquil pace, Under veils of white lace. I shall go shod in silk, And you in wool,White as a white cow’s milk, More beautiful Than the breast of a gull. We shall walk through the still town In a windless peace;We shall step upon white down, Upon silver fleece, Upon softer than these. We shall walk in velvet shoes: Wherever we goSilence will fall like dews On white silence below. We shall walk in the snow.• -Elinor Wylie

Rhyme

• Using words that sound the same after the first stressed syllable

Hurray, hurrayHappy dayGA Tech lost to UGA!

Rhyme Scheme

• The pattern of rhyming words in a poem (identified with letters)

Roses are red. (a)Violets are blue. (b)I know the answer, (c)But, I wonder do you? (b)

What is this poems end rhyme scheme?

Figurative Language

Language that is not meant to be taken literally

(What is written is not exactly what is meant)

Onomatopoeia and HyperboleOnomatopoeia

• Using a word that makes the sound it names.

The whir of the engine was barely audible above the roaring of the wind.

Hyperbole• An extreme

exaggeration

That boy has three million AR points! He must read in his sleep!

Simile

• Comparison between two unlike objects using like or as

This room looks like a pigsty, young man!

Metaphor

• Comparison between two unlike objects NOT using like or as

This room is a pigsty, young man!

Personification

• The ascribing of human characteristics to nonliving objects

The football laughed mockingly at the GA Tech quarterback as it flew directly into the hands of the Georgia player.

Haha…You can’t get me!