Literary devices definition and examples. Lesson for Year 9 English. Complete with visuals and content. Updated for 2022 use, considering that the teacher is updated with anime and film references so the discussion may flow smoothly.

1. Literary
Devices

2. Literary Devices
•Techniques used by the author to convey
ideas and emotions
•Unlike literary elements, they are not
always present in all works of literature
•Mostly seen in poetry, everyday
conversations, but not always in stories.

3. •Listen to the lecture carefully.
•When your name is called, unmute
and answer the question.
•Students will be called at random.
•One chance to answer correctly.
Graded Recitation

4. Metaphor
• direct comparison of unrelated subjects
• equates two ideas despite their differences

5. Simile
• uses words such as “like” or “as” to compare ideas
• allows two ideas to remain distinct in spite of their
similarities

6. Metaphor
or
Simile
1. The governor shed crocodile tears during the
press conference.
2. Stephen was about to deliver a speech and his
hands were as cold as ice.
3. Martha remembered her pet dog that recently
passed away and was hit by the blues.

7. Metaphor
or
Simile
4. A lot of students feel like a hamster running on a
wheel due to numerous requirements.
5. Most graduating students are busy as a bee that
they don’t have time for their organizations.

8. Irony
• Irony is a literary device in which a statement,
person, or situation is not as it seems
• Verbal: when a speaker says one thing but means
another (Sarcasm is a common example)
• Dramatic: giving the audience pieces of
information that some characters in the story are
not aware of
• Situational: discrepancy between expected results
and actual results

9. Literary Devices in Poetry
Irony
(Verbal)

10. Literary Devices in Poetry
Irony
(Dramatic)

11. Literary Devices in Poetry
Irony
(Situational)
She took a much-needed
vacation in Paris, and spent
days attending fashion shows.
Unfortunately, she came back
home to the Philippines more
tired than ever.

12. Irony: Verbal, Dramatic, Situational
1. The student was answering the Algebra
periodical exam with at least a dozen
scratch papers crumpled around him,
and he said the test was easy.
2. The Manila Bulletin recently published
a news report that the Philippines is
importing 93% of the local salt demand.

13. Irony: Verbal, Dramatic, Situational
4. She thinks her crush is so handsome
she would just faint at the sight of
him.
3. The little boy scraped his knee
and as his playmates helped
him to stand, he just said he
was okay.

14. Symbolism
•Symbolism is the use of
specific objects or images
to represent abstract
ideas

16. Foreshadowing
•Foreshadowing occurs when future events in a
story are suggested by the author before they
actually happen

17. Symbolism & Foreshadowing

18. Literary Devices in Poetry
Anaphora
•The repetition of word or phrase
at beginning of every clause.

19. So many places, so little time
Murad & Natalia Osmann #followmeto

20. Ask not what your country can do for you –
ask what you can do for your country.

21. Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.

22. Alliteration
The repetition of similar sounds, usually
consonants, at the beginning of words.

23. A skunk sat on a stump
and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

24. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked?
"Betty Botter bought some butter,
but she said, this butter's bitter;
if I put it in my batter,
it will make my batter bitter,
but a bit of better butter
will make my batter better."

25. Assonance
The repetition of
vowel sounds within
phrases or sentences.
Pusheen eats
the sweet treats.

26. Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds within phrases
or sentences.
Pusheen eats the sweet treats.
1. Miss Clarisse sees adjective noun .
2. Pat’s cat verb adverb .

27. Flashback
• A flashback takes the narrative back in time to an earlier point in
the story.
• Often used to create suspense or develop a character

28. Personification
• Type of figurative language that describes something which isn’t
human as having human qualities
• Anthropomorphism is a literary device that takes this idea a little
bit further, giving uniquely human characteristics to non-humans

29. Personification

30. Allusion
• Makes a reference to a place, event, literary
work, myth, or work of art, either directly or
by implication