https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4 AP English project en-us 2016-09-30 14:40:44 UTC 2024-10-15 09:15:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127883835 The use of multiple conjunctions or coordinate clauses in close succession .

 “The dinner was so good; I ate the chicken, and the salad, and the turkey, and the wild rice, and the bread, and the mashed potatoes, and the cranberry sauce.”
http://www.literarydevices.com/polysyndeton/

Original-When I went to my Grandma's house for dinner, she made chicken, and meatloaf, and salad, and rolls, and green beans, and the apple pie.]]> 2016-10-03 14:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127883835 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127885137 the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words. 

ex. "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrowed followed tree; ww were the first that ever burst into that silent sea." "The Rime of Ancient Matter" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

original example: Andy the aardvark angrily ate apples.

]]> 2016-10-03 14:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127885137 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127886357 The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
Example: "The wind whispered through dry grass." 
Example 2: ]]> 2016-10-03 14:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127886357 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127887661 a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole of something, or vice-versa. Simply, a part represents the whole.

 “all hands on deck”
http://www.literarydevices.com/synecdoche/

Original- "All eyes on me
 ]]> 2016-10-03 14:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127887661 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127888834 a figure of speech that compares two things using like or as. 

ex. "...she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach." --Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

original example: Her hair was like silk. ]]> 2016-10-03 14:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127888834 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127889251 The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect
Example: "This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings [...] This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land" Richard II Act 2 Scene 1 Shakespeare
Example 2:  

]]> 2016-10-03 14:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127889251 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127889568 exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken literally

ex. "Late at night, it was so frigid that all spoken words froze  solid before they could be heard." from Paul Bunyan 

original example: I'm so tired, I could sleep for years. ]]> 2016-10-03 14:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127889568 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127890299 A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem
Example: “Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down.”
(Dean Koontz, Seize the Night. Bantam, 1999)
Example 2: ]]> 2016-10-03 14:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127890299 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127895098 The substitution of something associated with an object in describing the object.

ex. In Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" the character Antony says, "lend me your ears." He doesn't literally only want their ears, he wants them to listen to him.
ex. The office notified the students of the early release.]]> 2016-10-03 14:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127895098 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127895100 the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. 

In her Harry Potter series, author J.K. Rowling has taken an extremely positive, inspiring and uplifting tone towards the idea of love and devotion.
http://literary-devices.com/content/tone

Original- In the "The Fault in our Stars" the tone was sad, because both the main characters had cancer. 

]]> 2016-10-03 14:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/127895100 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/128180789 a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

“Henry was a lion on the battlefield”
http://literary-devices.com/content/metaphor

Original-  "Life is a mountain'']]> 2016-10-04 14:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/128180789 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/128183248 the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

Certain writers in the modern day and age use archaic terms such as ‘thy’, ‘thee’ and ‘wherefore’ to imbue a Shakespearean mood to their work.
http://literary-devices.com/content/diction

Original- ]]> 2016-10-04 14:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/128183248 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/128184268 A reference to something in literature without specifically stating it.

ex. When someone says "a trojan horse" they are alluding to the Trojan War in which the Greeks hid soldiers inside a massive wooden horse in order to attack the trojans from the inside.
ex. I feel so bad about what I'm doing, I'll probably be in a whale's belly by the end of the week.]]> 2016-10-04 14:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/128184268 aburleson2176 https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/128189427 The repetition by starting the next sentence with the ending of the previous sentence.

ex.  In Star Wars, the Phantom Menace, Yoda advises, "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you."
ex. I like Ms. Rookey. Ms. Rookey likes English. English is in school. School is awful. ]]> 2016-10-04 14:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aburleson2176/2mgazdjnoky4/wish/128189427