Today, speech choir is a popular teaching as well as a performing art. It operates like a musical choir minus the music, instead of singing, speech choirs perform spoken-word pieces like poems.

1. LITERARY DEVICES

2. Literary devices are techniques that poets and
writers use to add color, shades of meaning, and
creativity in their writing.

3. 1. Imagery is a literary device that is used by poets, novelists, and
other writers to help create images in the readers’ minds. It often
uses figurative and metaphorical language to boost a reader’s
experience through their senses. Imagery allows a writer to picture
the whole story instead of just bluntly describing it. Here are some
examples that will help you understand the use of imagery.
The forest was dark and dim.
- Here, the adjectives ‘dark” and “dim” are used to give a visual
image of the forest that the writer is talking about.
He screamed for help as the mugger approached.
• - Here, “screamed” appeals to the readers’ auditory sense.

4. 2. Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
Examples
•The metal twisted like a ribbon.
•She is as sweet as candy.

5. 3. Metaphor- Two things are compared
without using “like” or “as.”
Examples
•All the world is a stage.
•Men are dogs.
•Her heart is stone

6. 4. Personification -Giving human traits to
objects or ideas.
Examples
•The sunlight danced.
•Water on the lake shivers.
•The streets are calling me.

7. 5. Hyperbole- Exaggerating to show strong
feelings or effects.
Examples
•I will love you forever.
•My house is a million miles away.
•She’d kill me.

8. 6. Pun- A form of “wordplay” in which words
have a double meaning.
Examples
•I wondered why the baseball was getting
bigger and then it hit me.
•I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s
impossible to put it down.
•I was going to look for my missing watch, but I
didn’t have the time.

9. 7. Symbolism- uses symbol, anything
that represents ideas a deeper meaning
beyond the literal, to represent ideas.
Example
• A flag that represents freedom.

10. 8. Alliteration- shows the repetition of initial consonant
sounds of nearby words. Alliteration is the repetition of
the same or a similar sound at or near the beginning of
each word in a series.
• The tongue twister Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers is a classic example of alliteration. The
sentence uses the same consonant (the letter p) at the
beginning of each main word to create alliteration

11. 9. Oxymoron- When two words are put
together that contradict each other.
Examples
“Opposites”
•Jumbo Shrimp
•Pretty Ugly
•Freezer Burn

12. 10. Assonance- is the repeated use of vowels in a
line of poetry.
Examples
• -In every bird , every flower and every rustling leaf,
• -”Seen” and ”Beat”, as you can see from the
example where the vowel sounds ”ee” in ”seen”
and ”ea” in ”beat” give a similar sound when
pronounced