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LITERARY DEVICES

LITERARY DEVICES. Tools writers use to make their writing more interesting. FORESHADOWING. The use of clues to hint at what will happen later in the story.

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LITERARY DEVICES

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  1. LITERARY DEVICES Tools writers use to make their writing more interesting

  2. FORESHADOWING • The use of clues to hint at what will happen later in the story. • “…I looked at the speedometer… Paul was driving even faster. "Please slow down," I said. "We're coming to a really bad curve in the road!" But he didn't slow down and the snow was drifting higher and higher. I could hardly see the road!” • Using the definition of foreshadowing, predict what will happen in the story.

  3. FLASHBACK • A scene that interrupts the sequence of events to reveal past occurrences. • “Driving to the store, I saw an ad for the circus that was coming to town. I remember Granddad picking me up on his shoulders as we entered the big top. The smell of animals, popcorn and excitement was everywhere.” • What are 2 clues that tell this is a flashback?

  4. FORESHADOWING OR FLASHBACK 'When the wolf told her about a shortcut he knew, Little Red Riding Hood remembered what her mother advised her. "'Don't talk to strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods.” Little Red Riding Hood's mother asked her to take some food to her grandmother one day. "'Don't stop along the way. Go straight to your grandma's house and back. Don't talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods.” Find an example of foreshadowing and flashback.

  5. IRONY Irony-a technique using interesting, surprising or amusing contradictions. When a story contains irony, something unexpected happens. On Tuesday night the Mason City Police Station was robbed.

  6. Choose one statement and one picture. How are each ironic? On one hand, I’m indecisive; but on the other, I’m not If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s intolerance. Cooperation can only be reached if we work together. Avoid idioms like the plague. An oral contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

  7. DIALECT • Dialect-the form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group. • South: "Y'all" • North: "You guys“ • From The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County Well, Smiley kept the beast in a little lattice box, and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet. One day a feller a stranger in the camp, he was come across him with his box, and says: "What might it be that you've got in the box?" And Smiley says, sorter indifferent like, "It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, may be, but it an't it's only just a frog." And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, "H'm so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?" "Well," Smiley says, easy and careless, "He's good enough for one thing, I should judge he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county." The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, "Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."

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