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The Black Cat:

Literary Devices

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Presented by:

Perla Santos

Simile

Simile

¨black cats as witches in disguises.¨

(pg,1 par,4).

Example:

Example

Examples:

Example:

She was as brave as a lion.

Pictures

Pictures

Metaphor

Metaphor

¨ I had walked the monster up within the tomb!¨

(pg,7 par,32).

Example:

Spending to much time with him is worse than swimming in a sea of sharks.

Examples:

Alliteration

Have terrified - have tortured

(pg.1, par.1).

Alliteration

Examples:

Examples

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

Personification

Personifications

No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk int silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb!(pg.7, par. 31)

Examples:

Examples

My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

Imagery

Imagery

In the next, a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall. It felt bodily. The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore.

(pg. 7, par. 32)

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Examples

The smell reminded her of fresh baked donuts.

Flashback

The whole story is a flashback. ( no pg. #, nor par.#)

Flash

Back

Examples:

Every time I bake I remember the time I burned myself.

Examples

Foreshadowing

Fore

shadowing

The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind.

(pg.5, par. 22)

Examples:

Examples

Before my mom could give us a hint about our trip she told us it was a place where its crowded and loud.

Symbolism

The image of a hideous- of a ghastly thing- of the GALLOWS!- oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and of crime- of agony and death.

(pg.5, par.20)

Examples:

Examples

The statue of liberty represents our freedom.

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