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Page 1: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Elements of Style

Literary DevicesCh. 5

Page 2: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Reading Standard 3.6Identify significant literary

devices that define a writer’s style,

and use those elements tointerpret the work.

(e.g., metaphor,symbolism, dialect, irony)

Page 3: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Style

The way a writer uses language.What makes Dr. Suess’s

style of writing so distinct?

Page 4: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Figures of Speech

Expressions that are not literally true, but that suggest similarities between usually unrelated things.

Page 5: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Similes Compare two unlike things

using a word of comparison.like, than, as, or resembles

Ex: The light was as bright as the sun.

Page 6: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Metaphors Compares two unlike things

directly, without using a specific word of comparison.

EX: The ox of a man cut

down the trees without breaking a

sweat.

Page 7: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Extended Metaphor When a metaphor is repeated

throughout a large portion of a work.

EX: “O Captain My Captain” by Walt Whitman. The metaphor that compares a

captain to the president of the United States (specifically Abraham Lincoln) is repeated throughout the poem.

Page 8: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Personification Speaks of a nonhuman or inanimate

thing as if it had human or lifelike qualities.

EX: The sun smiled down upon the earth.Does the sun have a mouth that can

form a smile?What does this mean?

Page 9: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Symbols People, places, or events that

have meaning in themselves but that also stand for something beyond themselves.

EX: The rose is a symbol, in Esperanza Rising, stood for the beauty of life and the thorns stood for the trials.

It also symbolized each member of the Ortega family and their servants.

Page 10: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Unexpected Events Irony- when something happens that is

the opposite of what you expect.

There are 3 kinds of irony: Verbal Irony- when we say one thing

and mean another (sarcasm) Situational Irony- a situation turns

out to be the opposite of what we expect.

Dramatic Irony – occurs when we know something that a character in the story or book doesn’t know.

Page 11: Elements of Style Literary Devices Ch. 5. Reading Standard 3.6 Identify significant literary devices that define a writer’s style, and use those elements

Imagery language that creates word

pictures and appeals to the senses –

makes us feel that we are seeing or experiencing what the narrator is describing right along with the characters.

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Dialect

Dialect is a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular culture or region.

Writers can also appeal to our ear w/dialect.


Structural Literary Terms (Literary Elements)

Literary Elements