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Literary Terms Project
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Literary Terms Project
By : Gianna Bonares
2nd Period/Mistretta
Alliteration
ex.
Alliteration
- Alliteration are words that begin with the same sound that are next to each other in a sentence.
- In Alliteration you focus on the rhyme and sound of the words instead of what letter they start with.
- Authors use Alliteration to make a sentence sound catchy and easy to remember.
- "She sells seashells" and "Peter Piper Picked" have consonant sounds that are rhymed well together.
- "She sells seashells by the sea-shore."
- "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
Metaphor
ex.
- "It's raining cats and dogs"
- "Feeling blue"
- By "It's raining cats and dogs", it actually means it's raining hard
- "Feeling blue" compares a feeling to a color (blue) which people usually feel a sad emotion with.
Metaphor
A Metaphor is an indirect comparison using 2 things that aren't alike as a different meaning.
They state that something is another with a deeper meaning.
Personification
Personification is when a nonhuman thing is assigned human abilities.
Personification
ex.
- "My flowers were begging for water."
Flowers cannot beg for water, but they can look like they need water.
- "Time flies when you're having fun."
Time can't physically fly, but it can pass by fast.
Symbolism
Symbolism
ex.
Black is used to represent death or evil.
White stands for life and purity.
Symbolism is the practice or art of expressing an abstract concept by using an object or a phrase. An event, person, location, word, or object may all have a meaning that is symbolic.
Hyperbole
ex.
- Her smile was a mile wide.
- His stomach is a bottomless pit.
Hyperbole
Hyperbole, originating from a Greek word meaning "over-casting," is a speech figure that, for the sake of emphasis, implies an exaggeration of ideas.
Allusion
Suddenly Adam and Eve realize that God was watching them like how the foe was being looked upon, “In the morning glad I see; My foe outstretched beneath the tree” (Blake). In both of Blake’s “A Poison Tree” and the story of Adam and Eve written in the bible, the characters ended in a repercussion, one dying after eating the apple under the tree and another (Blake); Furthermore, alluding to the story of Adam and Eve eating a fruit from the Tree of Life suffering a consequence of leaving the Garden of Eden in the Bible.
Allusion
An allusion is a speech figure referencing a person, location, object , or event. Any of these terms can refer to anything from literature, to mythology, to historical events and religious manuscripts, either actual or imaginary.
Theme
Theme is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly.
Theme
The wrath grew into “A Poison Tree” and “bore an apple bright” turning the current emotions into a darker desiring apple (Blake). One day the speaker saw “[it’s] foe beheld [the apples] shine”, influenced to eat it because of its pleasing look on the outside (Blake). Then, finding “[their] foe outstretched beneath the tree” no longer alive after tasting the hatred filled apple, William Blake presents the idea of letting hatred ideas grow into stronger negative feelings without expression (Blake); Additionally, forming the apple or idea of how people can look okay on the outside but have opposing feelings on the inside, like how many people of this world are feeling today, holding in their emotions instead of airing them out.
Works Cited
Works Cited
https://literarydevices.net
https://examples.yourdictionary.com
Blake, William. "A Poison Tree." 1794.