TREASURE HUNT
ON
LITERARY DEVICES
INTRODUCTION
Various literary devices including figurative language are used in prose and poetry as well as in everyday language, which leads sometimes to misunderstanding and confusion as to its meaning and use. This exercise will help you to understand better the different literary devices and figures of speech and their meanings as well as examples of each.
Go through each question below and find its answers by clicking on the given resource links. Each resource link is used only once to answer one question. After finding all the answers, move to the BIG QUESTION and do the assigned task.
You will work with your PC groups. Assign one member of your group to record all your answers. Work with the same group for the big question. You will be given enough time to complete your output.
QUESTIONS
1. To whom is apostrophe directly addressed to?
2. What is repeated in alliteration?
3. Define personification.
4. What is used in hyperbole to achieve effect?
5. Differentiate simile from metaphor.
6. What sound is repeated in assonance?
7. Give at least three examples of oxymoron.
8. What does onomatopoeia imitate?
9. From what words does metonymy come from and what do they mean?
RESOURCES
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/assonance.html
http://www.oxymorons.com/oxymorons.html
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/M/metonymy.htm
http://vc.ws.edu/ENGL2110/similemetaphor.htm
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/alliteration.html
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/personification.html
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/onomatopoeia.html
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/A/apostrophe.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
THE BIG QUESTION
Make a scrapbook of nursery rhymes or poems for children showing the various literary devices. You will be given two weeks to work on it.
This page written by Kathleen S. Lasola, [email protected]
                              English Department, Negros Oriental High School
                              Dumaguete City, Philippines
Last Updated: February 20, 2007
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