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Literary Devices that Authors use to Highlight Themes

Literary Devices that Authors use to Highlight Themes. Types of Literary Devices. Comparisons (metaphors and similes) Personification Onomatopoeia Alliteration Repetition Connotation Sentence Variety. . Metaphors and Similes. Comparisons. Metaphor.

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Literary Devices that Authors use to Highlight Themes

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  1. Literary Devices that Authors use to Highlight Themes

  2. Types of Literary Devices • Comparisons (metaphors and similes) • Personification • Onomatopoeia • Alliteration • Repetition • Connotation • Sentence Variety

  3. . Metaphors and Similes Comparisons

  4. Metaphor A word or phrase used to compare two unlike objects, ideas, thoughts or feelings to provide a clearer description. My dependable father is the rock of my family.

  5. More metaphors • “All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” – Albert Einstein • “She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.” – Caroline B. Cooney • “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers.” – Emily Dickinson

  6. Simile A figure of speech where two unlike things are compared using the word "like" or "as" followed by a figurative example. He is as hungry as a horse.

  7. More similes • “Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa.” — Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov • "...and her eyes were the biggest I had ever seen, like deer's eyes caught in the headlights.” —Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli • “Primʼs face is as fresh as a raindrop, as lovely as the primrose for which she was named.” —The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

  8. Personification Personification is giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas. The sun smiled on a field of flowers .

  9. More personification • That book was so popular, it flew off the shelves. • She is so beautiful the camera loves her. • The thunder was grumbling like it was angry. • When I didn’t make the team, my dream of being a star died.

  10. Onomatopoeia A word that sounds like the common sound of the object it is describing. The rustling leaves kept me awake.

  11. More onomatopoeia • The buzzing bee flew away. • The sack fell into the river with a splash. • The books fell on the table with a loud thump. • He looked at the roaring sky.

  12. Hyperbole A description that is exaggerated for emphasis. I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

  13. More hyperbole • He saw a man as tall as a power pole. • He saw his childhood friend after ages. • The weather was so hot that everything was on fire. • The boy was dying to get a new school bag.

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