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Literary TermsSlide2

Parallelism

Parallelism

 is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter. Parallelism examples are found in literary works as well as in ordinary conversations.Slide3

Literary Example

“Good we must love, and must hate ill,

For ill is ill, and good 

good

 still;

But there are things indifferent,

Which we may neither hate, nor love,

But one, and then another prove,

As we shall find our fancy bent.”

John Donne’s poem “Community

”,

Contrasting ideas of “Good”, “Ill”, “Love”, “Hate” in parallel structures.Slide4

Student Example

Part of me wants to change,

The other part still remains,

All of me wants us to be,

One, together, whole, the same.Slide5

Analogy

An

 analogy is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar. Metaphors and similes are tools used to draw an analogy.Slide6

Literary Example

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other word would smell as sweet.

So Romeo would, were he not Romeo

called

- Romeo and Juliet by ShakespeareSlide7

Student Example

Finding Lightning McQueen is like finding

Ozzy

Osbourne’s

brain.Slide8

foreshadowing

A warning or indication of a future eventSlide9

Literary example

In

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Gwen Stacy’s father keeps showing up in Peter’s thoughts telling him, “Keep Gwen out of it .” Then later in the movie she dies and Peter/Spider-Man wasn’t able to save herSlide10

Student example

The dog slowly crept to his bed for sleep… to never wake up again.Slide11

Epiphany

Moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the storySlide12

Literary Example

SpongeBob

S

quarepants Episode 32 Season 2Slide13

Student example

Sitting in class

Waiting for the bell

My mind being struck by lightening

This thought came upon my headSlide14

Alliteration

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.Slide15

Literary Example

Wind by Andrea Dietrich

Wakened, the winged and winsome wind wandered westerly while whistling witchery. It waltzed whimsically within woodlands - whooshing, then whipping willows. Worn, it waned. . . whispering wistfullySlide16

Student Example

I was profoundly puzzled by the peculiar purple parrot perched in the peach tree off my front porch.Slide17

Extended Metaphor

An extended metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence and sometimes consists of a full paragraph.Slide18

Literary Example

The Author to Her Book by Anne

Bradstreet

Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain…; And for thy mother, she alas is poor, Which caused her thus to send thee out of door.Slide19

Student Example

How I've watched you

grow

Just a small and hopeless dream

Now we shall succeed Slide20

Onomatopoeia

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.Slide21

Literary example

There are an abundance of examples of onomatopoeia in the poem “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” by Robert Browning. In one stanza alone, nine examples can be found.

“There was a

rustling

that seemed like a

bustling

Of merry crowds

jostling

at pitching and

hustling

,

Small feet were

pattering

, wooden shoes

clattering

,

Little hands

clapping

and little tongues

chattering

,

And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is

scattering

…”Slide22

Student Example

There are two examples of onomatopoeia in this piece.

“

The water began to

drip

The drips began to drop and

plop

,

Into the water

below.”Slide23

Symbolism

Symbolism

is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.

Symbolism

can take different forms. Generally, it is an object representing another to give it an entirely different

meaning

much deeper and more significant.Slide24

Literary Example

Symbols can be found all throughout the world especially in movies, television shows, and all forms of literature. A great example of a symbol would be in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven.” The raven that presents itself throughout the poem symbolizes death and is a constant reminder that death is ever present and always approaching.Slide25

Student Example

“The sun began to rise from behind the hills.” In one simple sentence, a lot of symbolism can be included. In this sentence, the sun could represent the start of a new day, or since it’s coming out from behind hills, it could symbolize the overcoming of opposition which would be the hills.

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Pun

A pun, also called paronomasia, is word play that suggests two or more meanings by exploiting words with

multiple meanings, or of similar sounding words.

This is the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language. a pun uses a correct expression that alludes to another (sometimes correct but more often absurdly humorous) expression

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Puns in media and culture

In "the Hymn to God the Father", John Donne, married to Anne More, Shakespeare repeatedly uses the words son/sun

Donne/done and More/more, three examples of homophonic phrases, to add literary effect:

"When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done / For I have more.

that at my death Thy Son / Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore

And having done that, Thou hast done; / I fear no more.“Slide28
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sATIRE

Satire is the use of

humour

in literature, graphic, and performing arts to ridicule the state of a government, corporation, or individual into improvement. Although it may be taken to be synonymous with comic relief, it is defined as the use of wit to point out the issues in a work or group. Slide30

Austin Powers

Austin powers makes fun of common clichés in spy movies in pop culture, such as Sexism, ridiculous escapes by the spy, the ego of the protagonist spy, and stupidity of the evil villain. Slide31

Student ExamplE

“In my newest trilogy, The hunger games, the socially awkward female protagonist has to fight in an arena against other teenagers for her social status, and finally discover which guy she wants to be with.”