Literacy Devices

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Here is a list of literary devices and their meanings. It is very important to understand that students are not expected in any to know these terms - nor should students be expected to come up with the proper teminology if concept attainment lessons are the basis for examining the elements of a particular literary device.
        
      Our "Instructional Strategies Online" site contains more information on Concept Attainment.

      * Figurative Language Resource Page * - This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, offers examples of and definitions for several types of figurative language.
      

• Allegory  - a symbolic representation - 寓言
            i.e. The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.           
• Alliteration   - the repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row.  - 头韵
  i.e. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
  
  • Alliteration Lesson Plans and Resources
    
        
• Allusion  – A reference to a famous person or event in life or literature.           - 典故
      i.e. She is as pretty as the Mona Lisa.
  
  • Allusion in Prose and Poetry
    
        
• Analogy   - the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. - 类比
  i.e. shoe is to foot as tire is to wheel
  
  • What's an Analogy?
    
        
• Assonance   - the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence. -    (音节中的)部分谐音
• Climax   - the turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work. - 高潮
  
• Foreshadowing           - hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story - 铺垫
• Hyperbole           - a figure of speech involving exaggeration. - 夸张法
• Metaphor           - A comparison in which one thing is said to be another.  -   象征
  i.e. The cat's eyes were jewels, gleaming in the darkness.
  
  • Using Metaphors in Creative Writing
  • Metaphor Activity
  • Metaphor Writing Assignment
  • Metaphor Writing Rubric
  • Writing Your Own Metaphor Activity Sheet
  • Color Poems—Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
  • As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
  • Similes and Metaphors Lesson
    
        
• Onomatopoeia  - the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. - 拟声
            i.e. The burning wood crackled and hissed.
  
  • Onomatopoeia Help
  • Writing: Onomatopoeia
    
        
• Oxymoron  - putting two contradictory words together.  - 逆喻
  i.e. bittersweet, jumbo shrimp, and act naturally
• Personification    - is giving human qualities to animals or objects.  - 拟人化
            i.e. The daffodils nodded their yellow heads.
  
  • Writing: Personification
  • Personification Lesson Plans and Resources
  • Scholastic: A lesson plan on personification
    
        
• Pun           - A word is used which has two meanings at the same time, which results in humor. - 双关语
• Simile - figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.  -   (使用like或as等词语的)明喻                                                                                
  i.e. She floated in like a cloud.
  
  • As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
  • Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes
  • Simile Activity
  • Similes and Metaphors Lesson
  • Simile Matching Game
  • Practice Similes
  • Similes
    
    • Similes Quiz
      
                
          

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