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    Year 9 Literary Device Continuum

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    This document provides a continuum of literary devices organized from beginner to advanced levels. It lists and defines various devices including metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, sibilance, symbolism, oxymoron, juxtaposition, pathetic fallacy, hyperbole, irony, allusion, and diction. Examples are given for each device to illustrate its proper use in writing or speech. The continuum is intended to help students learn and master increasingly sophisticated literary techniques.

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    This document provides a continuum of literary devices organized from beginner to advanced levels. It lists and defines various devices including metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, sibilance, symbolism, oxymoron, juxtaposition, pathetic fallacy, hyperbole, irony, allusion, and diction. Examples are given for each device to illustrate its proper use in writing or speech. The continuum is intended to help students learn and master increasingly sophisticated literary techniques.

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    This document provides a continuum of literary devices organized from beginner to advanced levels. It lists and defines various devices including metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, sibilance, symbolism, oxymoron, juxtaposition, pathetic fallacy, hyperbole, irony, allusion, and diction. Examples are given for each device to illustrate its proper use in writing or speech. The continuum is intended to help students learn and master increasingly sophisticated literary techniques.

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    Year 9 Literary Device Continuum

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    Metaphor—comparing two things directly


    Ex. Henry was a lion on the battlefield
    Simile—shows similarities between two different things using “like” or “as”. Beginner
    Ex. He is as funny as a monkey
    Personification—attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects,
    phenomena, or animals
    Ex. The wise owl
    Alliteration—creating a repetition of similar sounds in a sentence with consonants
    Ex. The Wicked witch of the West went her own way

    Assonance—a repetition of similar sounds in a sentence with vowels


    Ex. A long song Intermediate
    Onomatopoeia—words that describe and imitate sounds
    Ex. The hum of a thousand bees
    Sibilance—an alliteration that uses soft consonants with s, sh, ch, th, softer c
    Ex. Summer’s sweet winds swift through sunny ocean sides
    Symbolism—the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic
    meanings different from their literal sense.
    Ex. The dove is a symbol of peace

    Oxymoron—using contradictory concepts together to make sense


    Ex. Great Depression
    Juxtaposition—comparing two or more dissimilar things side by side to develop
    comparisons Challenging
    Ex. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
    Pathetic Fallacy—to attribute human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of
    nature
    Ex. The somber clouds darkened our mood

    Hyperbole—exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally


    Ex. I've told you to clean your room a million times!
    Irony—a situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality Thinking to Year 10
    Ex. a character stepping out into a hurricane and saying, “What nice weather we're
    having!”
    Allusion—an indirect or passing reference
    Ex.  You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to understand poetry.
    Diction—a writer or speaker's word choice that helps define the written or spoken word
    and express your style.
    Ex. And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just
    died. (word choice affects tone/atmosphere)

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