Literary Devices

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Literary Devices

• Definitions and Examples

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Goals

• After this lesson, you should be able to
• Understand the definitions of two literary
  devices alliteration and hyperbole
• Identify examples of these literary devices in a
  text
• Make up your own examples

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Alliteration

• the repetition of sound at the beginning of two
  or more neighboring words.

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Fun with Words

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
• She sells sea shells by the sea shore
• Zigmund Zane zig-zagged through the zany zoo
  zone.

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Identify the Alliteration in these sentences

1. Puny puma pit their skills against the zebras.
2. Pretty Polly picked pears for preserves.
3. Handsome Harry hired hundreds of hippos for
   Hanukkah.

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Answers

1. Puny puma pit their skills against the zebras.
2. Pretty Polly picked pears for preserves.
3. Handsome Harry hired hundreds of hippos for
   Hanukkah.

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Make Your Ownand share with the class!

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Hyperbole

• An extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a
  point.
• Its so hot! I think Im going to melt!

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Where is the exaggeration?

• Im so tired, I could sleep for a year!
• Im so hungry, I could eat a horse!
• I tried a thousand times!
• It was so funny, I nearly died laughing!

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Try some of your own!

• Im so tired
• Im so hungry
• It was so funny

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Lets Sum Things Up!

• Alliteration the repetition of sound at the
  beginning of two or more neighboring words.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
• Hyperbole An extravagant exaggeration used to
  emphasize a point.
• Im so hungry, I could eat a horse!
• Remember look for these while you read!