ppt for week 3.pptx 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

21ST CENTURY POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

1. LITERARY DEVICES:

Interesting) when you read, useful when you write!

A figure of

speechisa
rhetorical device

that achieves a
special effect by
using words ina
distinctive way.

2. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Language that has
meaning beyond the literal
meaning;also known as
“figures of speech.”

3. SIMILE

is an expression comparing one thing to
another using the words “like” or “as”.

Examples: My Dog is

He ran like a cat, lightly and

quietly.

Smelly
Her blue mood passed as quickly u as
as an afternoon rain shower. Dirty , Socks

4. METAPHOR

is a comparison of two unlike things
without using the words “like” or “as”.

METAPHORS

Examples: vo
He was a statue, waiting to hear
the news.

=
She was a mother hen, trying to E
take care of everyone around her.

5. HYPERBOLE
is an obvious exaggeration or

overstatement.

Examples:
HYPERBOLE IS

Pm so hungry I could eat a horse!

THING EVERY

6. PERSONIFICATION

is when a writer gives human
qualities to animals or objects.

Examples:

My car drank the gasoline in one
gulp.

The cat laughed.

The newspaper headline glared at
me.

7. Elements of Poetry:
Sound Devices

8. e | Alliteration

The repetition of initial consonant sounds, in two or

more neighboring words or syllables.

The wild and wooly walrus waits and wonders when we will walk by.
Slowly, sitently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees...
-- from Silver by Walter de la Mare

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
(almost ALL tongue twisters!)

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9. WHAT PERFIDIOUS PLOT DO YOU PLAN
TO PERPETRATE UPON THE PEACEFUL POPULACE
NOW, YOU PREDATORY PEST??

10. “Hear the music of voices, the song of a
bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra,
as if you would be stricken deaf
tomorrow. Touch each object as if
tomorrow your tactile sense would fail.
Smell the perfume of flowers...”

- from “Three Days to See” by Helen Keller

“While Enadded. nearly

4 BR line weakened w ils
napping. suddenly there .
mamans d with wisdom while withst nic
mn Arie | wrongs which would wound

11. Thi ds
" NOT on the u }
est,

| Assonance

A repetition of vowel sounds within words or syllables.

Fleet feet sv

and easy

12. Assonance examples |

It is among the oldest of living things.

So old it is that no man knows how and why the first
poems came.

ee | ES is old, ancient, goes back far.
--Carl Sandburg, Early Moon

“...on a proud round cloud ASSONANCE
in white high night...”

- E. E. Cummings

ade po vay o ig

the lake.”

13. Assonance example |

The Eagle
by Alfred Lord Tennyson

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,
And lika a thiindarhnoalt ha falle

14. eee] Onomatopoeia

Words that sound like their meaning ---
the “sound” they describe.

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15. ee Rhyme

O The repetition of end sounds in words

© End rhymes appear at the end of two
or more lines of poetry.

© Internal rhymes appear within a single
line of poetry.

| Ring around the rosies,
A pocket full of posies,

| Abednego was meek and mild; he softly spoke, he sweetly smiled.

He never called his playmates names, and he was good in running games;

16. ake =
“580 as”

Rhyme Scheme

© The pattern of end rhymes (of lines) ina
poem.

O Letters are used to identify a poem's rhyme
scheme (a.k.a rhyme pattern).

O The letter a is placed after the first line and
all lines that rhyme with the first line.

© The letter b identifies the next line ending
with a new sound, and all lines that rnyme
with it.

O Letters continue to be assigned in sequence
to lines containing new ending sounds.

17. eos | Rhyme Scheme continued...

Examples:

Twinkle, twinkle little star
How | wonder what you are.
Up above the earth so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

© © 0 ©

Baa, baa, black sheep
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,

Three bags full.

0009

18. eo

Rhyme Scheme continued...

What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

19. Did you get it right? aaba

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

20. ee Rhythm and Meter continued.

Example:

I think that | shall never see
a poem lovely as a tree.

The purple words/syllables are
“stressed”, and they have a regular
pattern, so this poetic line has “meter”.

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21. < CTOBEAR A WOUND”!

Bright red and fresh,
wounds on the chest.
Slash it so deep,
carve eyes that bleed.

Let your tears spill
while your skin peels.
Scream and cry ‘til
the world falls still.

Feel the wound burn,
and you will learn
that once it swells,

you'll

ive in hell.

Wish the wounds heal.
Wish you won't feel,
how your mind drops

once your heart stops.

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