- 1. LITERARY DEVICESMr. Gregorio P. Ebron Jr. Instructor
2. FIGURES OF SPEECH a word or phrase which is usedfor special
effect, and which does nothave its usual or literal meaning. 3.
SIMILE-consists of comparing two unlike things usingthe words as or
like.Ex.My love is like a red, red rose. 4. METAPHOR- -uses a
direct comparison of two unlike things orideas.- -the words as and
like are not used Ex. She is phantom of delight. 5.
PERSONIFICATION-gives human traits to inanimate objects or
ideas.Ex. The wind whistled in my ears. Here rests his head upon
the lap of earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown: Fair
science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him
for her own. 6. APOSTROPHE- A direct address to someone absent,
deador inanimate.- Ex. Oh rose! Thou art sick. O, pardon me, thou
bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these
butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in
the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! 7.
METONYMY- It substitute a word that closely relates to aperson or
thing. Ex. The pen is mightier than a sword. Lend me your ear. The
power of the crown was mortallyweakened. Im studying Shakespeare.
8. I would not give up freedom for a crown.The captain abandoned
the sword. 9. HYPERBOLE- Makes use of exaggerationEx. There is a
garden on her face.I am so hungry I could eat a horse.I have a
million things to do.I had to walk 15 miles to school in
thesnow,uphill. 10. IRONY- Says the opposite of what is meant- Ex.
How nice of you to insult me.- Water, water, every where,And all
the boards did shrink ;Water, water, every where,Nor any drop to
drink 11. ALLUSIONrefers to anyliterary, biblical, historical,
mythological, scientific event, character or place.Ex.1. Oh, dont
wash your hands and give thekiss of Judas.2. Be careful when
accepting giftpackages. They might turn out to beTrojan Horse.3.
Perhaps Poseidon was with them for thesea was so calm when they had
the cruise. 12. ANTITHESISinvolves a contrast or words or
ideas.opposition, or contrast of ideas or wordsin a balanced or
parallel construction.Ex. They promised freedom and
providedslavery.Not that I loved Caesar less, but that Iloved Rome
more. 13. PARADOX uses a phrase or a statement that on surfaceseems
contradictory that make some kind ofemotional sense.Ex. 1. Let us
go to war of peace.2. The war was no bad after all. 3. Parting is
such a sweet sorrow. 4. Stone walls do not a prison make, noriron
bar a cage. 14. OXYMORON puts together in one statement
twocontradictory terms.Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!O
any thing, of nothing first create!O heavy lightness! serious
vanity!Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!Feather of lead,
bright smoke, cold fire, sickhealth!Still-waking sleep, that is not
what it is!This love feel I, that feel no love in this. 15.
LITERARY SOUND DEVICES 16. ONOMATOPOEIA uses words having a sound
that imitates whatit denotes.Ex. hiss, bang, buzz, hush, swoosh 17.
ALLITERATIONinvolves the repetition of initial consonantsound. Ex.
Wicked and wan, threatening andthrong. 18. ASSONANCE uses
repetition of vowels withoutrepetition of consonants, also called a
vowelrhyme.Ex. Ring and hild, calano and platano. 19. CONSONANCE
repeats the final consonant sounds alsocalled consonant rhymeEx.
Dreary and weary, odds and ends. 20. RHYME employs identical sound
from the vowel ofthe accented syllables to the end.Ex. Hold, told,
mold, gold 21. ANAPHORA repeats a word or words at the beginningof
two or more successive clauses or verses.Ex. Cannon to the right of
them/ Cannonto the left of them 22. Sonnet 116Let me not to the
marriage of two mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich
alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to
remove:O no! it is an ever fixed markThat looks on tempests and is
never shaken;It is the star to every wandering barkWhose worths
unknown, although his heightbe taken. 23. Loves not Times fool,
though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickles compass
come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it
out even to the edge of doom.If this be error and upon me proved,I
never writ, nor no man ever loved. 24. Paradox Times 25.
ASSIGNMENT1. Prepare for a quiz next meeting, June 21. Coverage:
Aids to studying LiteratureFigures of Speech2. Read about the
influential ancient books ofreligious and literary worth (The
Bible, TheQuran, The Vedas)
