Bell Work Literary Device Simile Definition A simile

Bell Work Literary Device

Simile Definition: A simile is a comparison that uses the words like or as.

Simile Examples: Something is or does LIKE something else. Something is AS (adjective) AS something else • • His skin was as cold as ice. It felt as hard as rock. She looked as gentle as a lamb. I am as hungry as a lion. He eats like a pig. He smokes like a chimney. They fought like cats and dogs. These cookies taste like dirt.

Metaphor Definition: A metaphor is a comparison that does NOT use the words like or as.

Metaphor Examples: • • Judy is a fish in water. Knowledge is a tool. Life is a highway. The old man was a crooked tree trunk. Similie & Metaphor Video

Simile & Metaphor Let’s Practice! Decide whether each of the following sentences is an example of a metaphor or simile. _______ _______ Arnie was like a tall, handsome Greek statue. He was a lion in battle. She is as pretty as a picture. The stars were twinkling diamonds on black velvet. The moon was a misty shadow.

Simile & Metaphor Let’s Practice! Identify simile and metaphor in the following poem: “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding… And dark in the old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like moldy hay,

Personification Definition: Personification is giving human traits to nonhuman things. It is meant to be a type of comparison that paints a picture in the reader’s mind. *Despite what you may have been taught or will see on online, it is NOT fantasy, like a talking car. You are not meant to believe it is actually happening.

Personification Examples: • The sun smiled on our cookout. • A falling leaf danced on the breeze. • Downloading games ate up all my data.

Personification Let’s Practice! Decide whether each is an example of personification or not. 1. Walking desks took over town. 2. I listen to the wind. 3. The dog stares carefully at me. 4. The snake loves food. 5. Moonlight dances around my fear. 6. The bear reads my mind. 7. Ronnie Johnson smiles at the fox. 8. The wind sings softly through the willows. 9. The telephone lines whispered to the resting birds. 10. The branch’s fingers reached out to the hiker. What doe s personif ication loo k like in a movie?

Personification Let’s Practice! Identify use of personification in the following poem: “The Sky is Low” by Emily Dickinson The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A traveling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day How someone treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem.

Allusion Definition: Allusion is a reference within a work to something famous outside it, such as a wellknown person, event, story, work of art, literature, music, etc. Allusion helps the reader understand something new by connecting or comparing it to something already known.

Allusion Examples: • Sally had a smile that rivaled that of the Mona Lisa. • I may seem like an old Scrooge, but I just don’t want to donate money to your fundraiser. • “He flung away his rubber-ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder. ” From “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • Cookie dough is my kryptonite.

Allusion Examples: “What’s wrong with a man becoming intelligent and wanting to acquire knowledge and understanding of the world around him? ”. . . “It was evil when Eve listened to the snake and ate from the tree of knowledge. It was evil when she saw that she was naked. If not for that none of us would ever have to grow old and sick, and die. ” “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes

Onomatopoeia Definition: Onomatopoeia are words that imitate the natural sounds things make.

Onomatopoeia Examples: “When Carly Eats Spaghetti” When Carly eats spaghetti, She chomps and gobbles and slurps, The spaghetti disappears with a whoosh Sauce slapping and smacking Round her chops. She scrapes the toast round the plate Crunching, grinding every mouthful. She burps, gurgles and leaves the table! “Outside the brush house in the tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings. ” “Kino heard the creak of the rope when Juana took Coyotito out of his hanging box. . . The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Alliteration Definition: Alliteration is the use of the same beginning sounds in neighboring words.

Alliteration Examples: “In his mind a new song had come, the Song of Evil, the music of the enemy, of any foe of the family, a savage, secret, dangerous melody. . . The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Assonance Definition: Assonance is the repetitive use of vowel sounds in neighboring words.

Assonance Examples: “Home” by Phillips Hold on, to me as we go. As we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along. Just know you’re not alone, Cause I’m going to make this place your home. Assonance is used more often than most people realized. Song writers and poets with frequently use it to “fake” a rhyme. Example: “Story of Our Life” By One Direction The story of my life I give her hope I spend her love Until she’s broke, inside

Assonance Examples: “Firework” by Katy Perry You just gotta ignite the light And let it shine Just own the night Like the Fourth of July 'Cause baby you're a firework Come on show 'em what your worth Make 'em go "Oh, oh!" As you shoot across the sky-y-y Baby you're a firework Come on let your colors burst Make 'em go "Oh, oh!" You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down

Consonance Definition: Consonance is the repetitive use of consonant sounds in neighboring words.

Consonance Examples: • • • Last but not least Short and sweet All’s well that ends well. A blessing in disguise The early bird gets the worm.

Alliteration, Assonance, & Consonance Examples: “Weather” by Eve Merriam Dot a dot dot a dot Spotting the windowpane. Spack a spack speck flick a flack fleck Freckling the windowpane. A spatter a scatter a wet cat a clatter A splatter a rumble outside. Umbrella umbrella Bumbershoot barrel of rain. Slosh a galosh slosh a galosh Slither and slather a glide A puddle a jump a puddle a jump A puddle a jump puddle splosh A juddle a pump a luddle a dump A pudmuddle jump in and slide! “And to Kino the secret melody of the maybe pearl broke clear and beautiful, rich and warm and lovely, glowing and gloating and triumphant. ” The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Hyperbole Definition: Hyperbole is the intentional use of exaggeration. Writers often use it to add humor or to emphasize a truth by overstating or exaggerating it.

Hyperbole Examples: • I’ve told you a thousand times! • This backpack weighs a ton! Examples in literature: • There did not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so to speak, to bait a fishhook with. ” From A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain • I spent a couple of weeks there one day. From “The People, Yes” by Carl Sandburg • Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. From “The Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Idiom Definition: An idiom is a phrase that cannot be understood by taking the words literally or at face value.

Idiom Examples: • • • Break a leg Steal someone’s thunder Barking up the wrong tree Not playing with a full deck Beating around the bush Piece of cake Cutting corners Crying over spilt milk Sitting on the fence

Euphemism Definition: A euphemism is substituting a mild, more polite phrase or word in place of a harsher, more offensive one.

Euphemism Examples: • • • between jobs character lines passed away Correctional facility Sanitation engineer

Oxymoron Definition: An oxymoron is a combination of two words of opposite meanings put together to convey one single thought or idea that seems contradictory, but is somehow true.

Oxymoron Examples: act naturally pretty ugly minor crisis virtual reality seriously funny only choice unbiased opinion old news found missing alone together Microsoft Works

Pun Definition: A pun is using a word with more than one meaning or that sounds like another word in a funny or ironic way.

Pun Examples: • • • The mushroom didn’t know why no one liked him; he was a fungi. The bicycle wanted to stop because it was two-tired. Two hats were hanging on a wall. One said to the other, “You stay here; I’ll go on a head. ” “How Do You Milk a Cow” by Cledus T. Judd I’m gettin’ sick and tired of smelling dairy air. I’m headin’ back to Cali and I’m turning in my plow. Oh, EIEIO, tell me how do you milk a cow? This song is absolutely an udder disaster. “The Sky is Low” by Emily Dickinson The sky is low, the clouds are mean,

Cliche Definition: A cliché is a word, expression, or idea that has become so overused that it is not original, but is rather a stereotype.

Cliche Examples: • • • Practice makes perfect. Once upon a time. . . There’s no place like home. It was a dark and stormy night. All for one, and one for all. To each his own. Every cloud has a silver lining. All is fair in love and war. What goes around comes around.

Imagery Definition: Imagery is the use of descriptive language that appeals to the senses (how something looks, feels, sounds, tastes, smells).

Imagery Examples: “As always, he could smell the smoke from many fires, and he could see the hazy stars and feel the damp of the night air so that he covered his nose from it. ” From The Pearl by John Steinbeck, p. 34 “Kino awakened in the near dark. The stars still shone and the day had drawn only a pale wash of light in the lower sky to the east. The roosters had been crowing for some time, and the early pigs were already beginning their ceaseless turning of twigs and bits of wood to see whether anything to eat had been overlooked. Outside the brush house in a tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings. ” From The Pearl by John Steinbeck, p. 1

Irony Definition: Irony is a contradiction between what happens and what is expected.

Irony Examples: • “Johnny had killed someone. Quiet, soft-spoken little Johnny, who wouldn’t hurt a living thing on purpose, had taken a human life. ” From The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton • Romeo and Juliet both end up dead. • In The Pearl, the priest brought in the song of evil, and the doctor poisons the baby.

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