A Creative Approach to Literary Terms

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A Creative Approach to Literary Terms

• By
• JoDee Luna

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Authors Message
What do you think the authors message about love
is?
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AuthorsPurpose
What purpose might the creator of this poster
write about in his persuasive essay?
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Idiom

• An idiom is an expression, that is a term or
  phrase whose meaning cannot be deduced from the
  literal definitions and the arrangement of its
  parts, but refers instead to a figurative meaning
  that is known only through common use.

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Birds of a feather flock together.
This idiom refers to people with similar
characteristics and interests spending time
together. Example Those trouble-makers who
hang out together and steal are all the same!
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Poetry

• Poetry (from the Greek "p???s??", poiesis, a
  "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which
  language is used for its aesthetic and evocative
  qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its
  ostensible meaning.

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Personification

• A personification is a figure of speech that
  gives an inanimate object or abstract idea human
  traits and qualities, such as emotions, desires,
  sensations, physical gestures and speech.

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Prose

• Prose is writing distinguished from poetry by its
  greater variety of rhythm and its closer
  resemblance to everyday speech.
• Prose writing is usually adopted for the
  description of facts or the discussion of
  whatever one's thoughts are, incorporated in free
  flowing speech.

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Theme

• In literature, a theme is a broad idea in a
  story, or a message or lesson conveyed by a work.
  This message is usually about life, society or
  human nature. Themes are the fundamental and
  often explore universal ideas in a literary work.
  Themes are usually implied rather than explicitly
  stated.

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What are some possible themes?
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Push through your destiny awaits!
What is your dream?
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Inference

• Inference is the act or process of deriving a
  conclusion based solely on what one already
  knows.

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Can you infer what interest these best friends
have in common?
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Works Cited

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_28literature2
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• Contributing artists
• Cartooning by Andy Luna
• Decoupage Frames by JoDee Luna and Elya Filler
• Gang poster by student artist Raymond V.