Lesson 4 - Literary Devices (English 9 Q2)

This presentation discusses the following Literary Devices: Allusion, Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, and Repetition

1. Compare the two statements:

2. “You are not just a chapter in my life—you are the whole story. Every plan I make, every dream I chase, feels incomplete unless I see you in it. I don’t want a tomorrow that doesn’t have you in it, and I don’t need a forever that isn’t shared with you.” “I love you.”

3. “Your eyes are like stars on the clearest night—endless, radiant, and full of mystery. Just as travelers once looked to the stars to find their way, I find myself looking into your gaze to feel steady and sure. They shine with a light that makes everything else fade, and when they meet mine, it feels as though the whole universe has opened just for us.” “You’ve got such pretty eyes.”

4. What do you call the tools writers use to make their writing more powerful, meaningful, and engaging?

5. LITERARY DEVICES

6. WHAT IS IT?

7. Subtypes: Figurative language or Figures of Speech Sound Devices

8. 1. Figurative Language/Figures of Speech These are words or expressions used in a non-literal way to create deeper meaning, make ideas more vivid, or stir emotions. Instead of saying something directly, figurative language compares, exaggerates, or symbolizes to make the message more powerful.

9. 1.ALLUSION

10. Other examples: She has the face that could launch a thousand ships. (Referring to Helen of Troy in Greek mythology.) Even though our team was the smallest in the league, we pulled off a David and Goliath victory in the finals. ( “David and Goliath” comes from the Bible (1 Samuel 17)).

11. Love Story

12. Love Story by Taylor Swift References to Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) and The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) are direct cultural/literary references .

13. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen Mention of Galileo (3:18) and Belzeebub (4:00)

14. 2.METAPHOR It is a figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things , typically by stating that one thing is another.

15. 1. Tenor The tenor is the subject or idea being described — the thing you want to explain or give meaning to. It’s what the metaphor is “about.” 2. Vehicle The vehicle is the image or concept used to describe the tenor — what you’re comparing it to. It carries the meaning or qualities you want to transfer to the tenor.

16. Examples: Her eyes were starts in the night. Tenor: Vehicle:

17. Metaphor

18. Metaphors in Taylor Swift’s songs: “Red” “Loving him was red.” “State of Grace” “Love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.” “Blank Space” “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

19. 3.SIMILE A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.” Directly states the comparison using words like “like” or “as.”

20. Simile

21. Differences of Metaphor and Simile

22. Metaphor and Similes

23. 4.PERSONIFICATION Gives a human trait to something non-human.

24. Examples:

25. Personification

26. Examples: Fame creeps up on you. (Actor Ian Mckellen ) Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, temptation avoids you. (Actress Joey Adams) I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people. (Author Ethan Canin) Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. (Singer Taylor Swift) A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. (Preacher Charles Spurgeon)

27. Other examples: I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. (Philosopher Albert Camus) Love is blind. (Poet Geoffrey Chaucer) The sea was angry that day. (George Costanza from the sitcom Seinfeld)

28. 2. Sound Devices These are a type of literary device that focus on how words sound when spoken or read aloud . Writers and poets use them to create mood , rhythm , emphasis, or musicality in their writing.

29. QUIZ Directions: Read each excerpt and choose the correct literary device: Metaphor, Personification, Allusion, Simile, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, or Repetition. 1. “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low…” 2. “The Negro is still not free… the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” 3. “I have a dream… I have a dream… I have a dream today.” 4. “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” 5. “Justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” 6. “Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.” 7. “We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” 8. “With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together…” 9. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” 10. “Let freedom ring from the hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.”