2. What is a Literary Devices?
Literary device – any writing tool a writer
uses to convey their message
3. Some Devices
Alliteration – words used in quick
succession beginning with letters, same
sound group
Example: Boredom before bed, passionately
piled papers, long song, Chuck struck luck
4. Some Devices
Hyperbole – over exaggeration, stronger
effect on the reader
Example: I am so hungry that I am going to
die, my feet hurt so bad that I fear they will
fall off
5. Some Devices
Personification – when human (living)
quality or action are given to non-living
things
Example: The trees danced to the rhythm of
the universe, the wind whistled an
melancholy tune
6. Some Devices
Rhyme – words, similar sounds are
purposefully placed corresponding each
other
Example: My hat is frozen unto my head my
body’s like a lump of lead, Because the
wind is high it blows my mind
7. Some devices
Simile – a comparison using “like” or “as”
Example: her beauty as radiant as a sunset
8. Metaphor – comparison that shows similar
traits by directly relating them in qualities
(not using like or as)
Example: swimming in her ocean eyes,
combing her silk hair
9. That’s a frosty way to speak
To tell me how to live next to your
potpourri
All this talking pulls my teeth
I believed in you, so you believed in
Once I had a name to claim,
I scraped on all the walls like an
orthodox saint
I wished for the same old things
That turned me inside out, hearing is a
strain, it’s a game
Never have I ever been
Clutching at your hair to cure you of
some sin
But that’s the kind of state I’m in
Swimming in a pool of godly
medicine
Me, I cried out, “God, You
dared me in the dark
I felt a hush fall quietly from my
spark
So now I hide in piles of
princely orange peels
It feels the way You told me I
would always feel
“Come, come,” here it calling
me
Yelling like if ever there was
someone
Who could make things
heavenly again
Feel alive
10. To Kingdom Come Lyrics
That’s a frosty way to speak
To tell me how to live next to your potpourri
All this talking pulls my teeth
I believed in you, so you believed in
Me, I cried out, “God, You dared me in the dark”
I felt a hush fall quietly from my spark
So now I hide in piles of princely orange peels
It feels the way you told me how it’d always feel
11. To Kingdom Come Lyrics
Once I had a name to claim
I scraped on all the walls like an orthodox saint
I wished for the same old things
That turn me inside out, hearing is the strain, it’s a
game
Me I cried out, “God, You dared me in the dark”
I felt a hush fall quietly from my spark
So now I hide in piles of princely orange peels
It feels the way you told me I would always feel
12. To Kingdom Come Lyrics
Never have I ever been
Clutching at your hair to cure you of some sin
But that’s the kind of state I’m in
Swimming in a pool of godly medicine
“Come, come,” here it calling me
Yelling like if ever there was someone
Who could make things heavenly again
Feel alive
13. Some Devices
Paradox – usage of contradicting ideas
that together still hold significance
Example:
