This document provides an overview of various literary techniques and devices used in fiction writing. It discusses figurative language like metaphor, simile, personification and hyperbole. It also outlines other techniques such as flashback, foreshadowing, juxtaposition and imagery that appeals to different senses. Examples are provided to illustrate each technique. The document appears to be teaching notes for a class on creative writing and analyzing fictional works.

1. CREATIVE
WRITING 11
CREATIVE
WRITING 11
MISS ROSALYN D. MANDAC
SUBJECT TEACHER

2. LITERARY
TECHNIQUE AND
DEVICES OF
FICTION
LITERARY
TECHNIQUE AND
DEVICES OF
FICTION

3. Analyze the comic strip.

4. LITERARY
TECHNIQUE AND
DEVICES OF
FICTION
LITERARY
TECHNIQUE AND
DEVICES OF
FICTION

6. What does the father mean when he said,
“It (sky) looks very angry?”

7. What does the father mean when he said,
“It (sky) looks very angry?”
How do you call this language?

8. Yes! It is a figurative language.

9. Yes! It is a figurative language.
The use of figurative language is just
one of the techniques authors use to
make their work vivid and interesting.

10. Read the story in the next activity to
find out what happened why the sky
looked very angry.

11. CATCH-UP
FRIDAY
CATCH-UP
FRIDAY

12. READING
TIME!!!
READING
TIME!!!

13. Now, that we have already reviewed some
of the terms used in fiction, we will now
move on to the next activities where we will
learn more of these terms.

14. DIFFERENT
LITERARY DEVICES
AND TECHNIQUES
IN FICTION
DIFFERENT
LITERARY DEVICES
AND TECHNIQUES
IN FICTION

15. It is the giving of life to inanimate
objects.
PERSONIFICATION
PERSONIFICATION

16. "It looks very angry,"
"Earth and sea are struggling together
ocean yields to the fires
wave rushed toward the shore
It (earth) groaned and split open.
hurricane wind broke out of the ocean
PERSONIFICATION
PERSONIFICATION

17. You have noticed that the author uses
figurative language, specifically more of the
personification. The use of personification
is the author’s technique in writing, making
the events in the story vivid and exciting.
PERSONIFICATION
PERSONIFICATION

18. It uses exaggeration to make an
emphasis.
HYPERBOLE
HYPERBOLE

19. • The purple rim of the ocean seemed to
lift and rise against the clouds.
HYPERBOLE
HYPERBOLE

20. • The purple rim of the ocean seemed to
lift and rise against the clouds.
HYPERBOLE
HYPERBOLE
The author also used a hyperbole to
exaggerate an event in the story making it
even more interesting.

21. • Rain fell in such sheets that the whole
heavens seemed falling into the sea and
the sea seemed leaping up in the sky.
(Ceyx and Alcyone)
HYPERBOLE
HYPERBOLE

22. It is the comparison of two unlike
objects without using the word “like” or
“as”
METAPHOR
METAPHOR

23. • But soft, what light through yonder
window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet
is the sun! (William Shakespeare –
Romeo & Juliet)
METAPHOR
METAPHOR

24. • But soft, what light through yonder
window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet
is the sun! (William Shakespeare –
Romeo & Juliet)
METAPHOR
METAPHOR
In the example, Juliet is compared to a
sun; thus giving light.

25. It is the comparison of two unlike
objectives using the word “like” or “as”
SIMILE
SIMILE

26. • “Her father had inherited that temper;
and at times, like antelope fleeing before
fire on the slope, his people fled from
his red rages.” — Riders of the Purple
Sage, by Zane Grey
SIMILE
SIMILE

27. • “Her father had inherited that temper;
and at times, like antelope fleeing before
fire on the slope, his people fled from
his red rages.” — Riders of the Purple
Sage, by Zane Grey
SIMILE
SIMILE
In the example, His father’s temper is
compared to an antelope.

28. It uses a part to represent and whole or
vice versa.
SYNECDOCHE
SYNECDOCHE

29. • Her name was on his lips when the
ship sank and waters closed over him. –
(Ceyx and Alcyone)
SYNECDOCHE
SYNECDOCHE

30. • Her name was on his lips when the
ship sank and waters closed over him. –
(Ceyx and Alcyone)
SYNECDOCHE
SYNECDOCHE
This is a synecdoche because the lips is
just a part of the body.

31. OTHER LITERARY
TECHNIQUES
OTHER LITERARY
TECHNIQUES

32. Creative writers also use different structures
in sequencing the events in the plot.

33. It is a technique in narratives in which
the present story brings into a scene
from the past.
FLASHBACK
FLASHBACK

34. I was thinking of the hospital. We had
gone there that afternoon to visit my
father for Valentine’s day. We had to go
the day before the actual holiday
because Mama said we couldn’t get out
of school to go on Monday. (Don’t Wait
to Give Daddy a Hug)
FLASHBACK
FLASHBACK
Study the paragraph below.

35. FLASHBACK
FLASHBACK
The paragraph describes a scene is the
story where the little girl recalls her visit
to the hospital that afternoon. This is an
example of flashback.

36. It is a technique in narratives in which
the present story brings into a scene in
the future.
FORESHADOW
FORESHADOW

37. “Simba, let me tell you something my
father told me. Look at the stars. The
great kings of the past look down on us
from those stars. So whenever you feel
alone, just remember that those kings
will always be there to guide you. And
so will I.”
FORESHADOW
FORESHADOW
Study the paragraph below. This scene was taken from the
movie, The Lion King.

38. FORESHADOW
FORESHADOW
The underlined phrase are the words of
Mufasa, the father of Simba foretelling
Simba, that he, too will die and become
one of those stars who will be watching
Simba from above. Hence, this is an
example of foreshadow.

39. It is a literary term putting two different
elements side by side in order to
emphasize their differences, reveal
surprising similarities, or explore a
unique relationship between the two.
JUXTAPOSITION
JUXTAPOSITION

40. E.g. The fable, The Rabbit and the Turtle,
is a juxtaposition where the author puts
the two characters side by side to show
how fast the rabbit is and how slow that
turtle is to compare the two characters.
JUXTAPOSITION
JUXTAPOSITION

41. It uses vivid words to create a mental
picture of the events in the story. It
appeals to the senses such as sight,
taste, smell, touch, and sound.
IMAGERY
IMAGERY

42. It appeals to the sense of seeing.
VISUAL
VISUAL
E.g. They came upon a humble little hovel,
poorer than any they had seen before, with
a roof made only of straw and reeds.
(Baucis and Philemon)

43. It appeals to the sense of touching.
TACTILE
TACTILE
No breath of wind stirs the waters.
(Ceyx and Alcyone)

44. It appeals to the sense of smelling.
OLFACTORY
OLFACTORY
"I lay still and took another minute to smell:
I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive
smell of silage, as well as the sour dirty
laundry spilling over the basket in the hall”.
(A Map of the World)

45. It appeals to the sense of tasting.
GUSTATORY
GUSTATORY
E.g. The warm, sweet chocolate drink
made her happy on that winter day.

46. It appeals to the sense of hearing.
AUDITORY
AUDITORY
E.g. They would steal to the crack and
utter words of burning love but always in
softest whispers. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

47. LET’S TRY!!!
LET’S TRY!!!
Read the excerpt from the flash
fiction, “The Deep” by Adam Smith.
Flash fiction contains at least 1000
words and can be read in one sitting.

48. THANK
YOU
THANK
YOU