Discovering and Using Literary Devices Creatively by Camila Ochoa

Discovering and Using Literary Devices Creatively by Camila Ochoa https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz Jorgelina Princic - Marcela Borras - Leandro Dreher - Camila Ochoa en-us 2020-06-20 19:40:09 UTC 2025-03-21 03:30:59 UTC hello@padlet.com DEFINITION camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/634579752 2020-06-20 19:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/634579752 EXAMPLES camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/634579818 2020-06-20 19:50:46 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/634579818 EXAMPLES https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641783002 2020-06-27 18:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641783002 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641783795 "I mean, Mr. Grey had been a presence in our lives, part of the scenery,part of the house—like the furniture." (Cormier, 1997, p. 82)

]]> 2020-06-27 18:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641783795 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641784146 “He looked like a lion tamer in a movie.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 33)]]> 2020-06-27 18:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641784146 EXAMPLES https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641786806 2020-06-27 18:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641786806 Smell - tabacco/smoke https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641786832 “I was always aware of two smells, my mother’s perfume and the way my father always smelled of tobacco or smoke or the matches. But after that night, after the bus trip, I don’t associate my father with cigarettes anymore. Because my father doesn’t smoke. I’ve never seen him smoke a cigarette. But my mother’s perfume was the same.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 15)]]> 2020-06-27 18:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641786832 DEFINITION https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641787229 2020-06-27 18:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641787229 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641787896 "We have placed our life in his
hands, Adam. We have to trust him. In a way, he’s our creator." (p.114)
“So our hands were tied, Adam. That’s what I mean about Grey—he rules our lives.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 114)]]> 2020-06-27 18:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641787896 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641788353 "And I stand there isolated by myself on a small invisible island, and I look at the spot where my bike was." (Cormier, 1997, p.101)]]> 2020-06-27 18:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641788353 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641790935 "He draws the bike close to him
as if it’s a shield." (Cormier, 1997, p. 121)

]]> 2020-06-27 18:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641790935 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641793036 "The rain dances on the ground, the way water jumps and leaps if you drop it on a hot stove." (Cormier, 1997, p.47)]]> 2020-06-27 18:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641793036 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641793318 “This time the car brushes me. I feel the wind, like a monster’s foul

breath, and I feel the contact of metal and a whine as the metal strikes my bike.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 73)

]]> 2020-06-27 18:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641793318 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641794568 "A rumble of thunder answers me—the gods are listening." (Cormier, 1997, p. 47-48)]]> 2020-06-27 18:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641794568 Sight https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641795716 "But there was something—gray about him. His hair was gray. But more than that: to me, gray is a nothing color and that’s how Mr. Grey seemed to me. Like nothing.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 82)

"My father always seemed the

stronger one. As if he was a bright color and she was a faded

color. I know it sounds crazy.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 112)

]]> 2020-06-27 18:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641795716 Touch - coolness https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641796640 “(...) the instrument [the telephone] was cool to his touch, and the coolness established reality, the reality of what he was about to do: eavesdrop on his mother” (Cormier, 1997, p. 57)]]> 2020-06-27 18:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641796640 BIKE (confinement/freedom) camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641797375 "The bike was waiting in the garage and that’s how I wanted to go. By bike, by my own strength and power. For my father." (Cormier, 1997, p.10)

"I thought of my father and I started pedaling away, and I gained momentum and knew I would go, nothing would stop me, nothing." (Cormier, 1997, p. 11)

"The car brushes by and hands reach out for me, pushing, grabbing,
and I lose my balance, the bike wavers under me and heads for the
ditch, the steep ravine by the side of the road, and I am helpless" (Cormier, 1997, p. 74)

“I am on the bike now, sailing, sailing, down the street, on the wrong side of the street and with no lights on the bike, but I am going, going” (Cormier, 1997, p. 122)]]> 2020-06-27 18:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641797375 DOG (persecution/threat) camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641797393 "As I approach, the dog steps out into the road and I think, It’s as if
he has been waiting for me all my life." (Cormier, 1997, p. 26)

"The bike is in danger of toppling now as the dog continues to attack
the front wheel and I realize with horror that this has been his
intention from the beginning: to topple the bike, send it askew and
have me crashing to the roadway, his victim." (Cormier, 1997, p. 27)]]> 2020-06-27 18:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641797393 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641798290 “I heard the phone ring but I didn’t bother answering it although there was an extension in the room. I sat there, as if in a trance.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 86)

]]> 2020-06-27 18:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641798290 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641800745 He sensed a poem lurking in the words and wanted to scribble them
down. (Cormier, 1997, p. 41)]]> 2020-06-27 19:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641800745 DEFINITION https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641800921 2020-06-27 19:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641800921 DEFINITION https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641800962 2020-06-27 19:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641800962 Personification https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641802397 The keys of the keyboard yell every time they are pushed down.

]]> 2020-06-27 19:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641802397 Metaphor https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641805450 Coronavirus is an invisible monster that threatens me.

]]> 2020-06-27 19:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641805450 Hyperbole https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641806400 During a virtual class, each minute feels like an hour.

]]> 2020-06-27 19:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641806400 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641806728 “My heart is threatening to explode in my chest and my lungs scream with pain—I realize that I have been holding my breath—but I look him in the eye.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 63)]]> 2020-06-27 19:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641806728 Metaphor https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641808082 My house became an open book overnight and everybody is allowed to read it or even comment on it. 'Is that your husband behind you?' 'Have you changed the curtains?']]> 2020-06-27 19:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641808082 Similie https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641809067 Students are like spies ]]> 2020-06-27 19:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641809067 Imagery https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641809524 The smell of bleach penetrates my nose, invades my lungs every time I come back from the supermarket.]]> 2020-06-27 19:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641809524 EXAMPLES camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641811099 2020-06-27 19:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641811099 Smell - Lilacs https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641818050 "Inside, the smell of lilac fills the hallway as usual. Dr. Dupont tries
to keep the place homelike." (Cormier, 1997, p.148)]]> 2020-06-27 19:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/641818050 camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645232725 "The impersonation of some quality or abstraction; the atribution of human qualities to inanimate objects." (Cuddon, J. A., 2013, p. 529)]]> 2020-07-01 18:23:16 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645232725 camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645239397 "A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another, in such a way as to clarify and enhance and image. It is an explicit comparison (as opposed to metaphor, q.v., where the comparison is implicit) recognizable by the use of words 'like' ir 'as'. " (Cuddon, J. A., 2013, p. 657)]]> 2020-07-01 18:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645239397 camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645241845 "Imagery as a general term covers the use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, state of mind and any sensory and extra-sensory experience." (Cuddon, J. A., 2013, p. 354) ]]> 2020-07-01 18:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645241845 DEFINITION camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645248165 2020-07-01 18:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645248165 camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645248311 "It is an object, animate or inanimate, which represents or 'stands for' something else" (Cuddon, J. A., 2013, p. 699)]]> 2020-07-01 18:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645248311 EXAMPLES camiochoa98 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645250174 2020-07-01 18:45:16 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/645250174 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/646077959 "In a metaphor, a word or expression that in literal usage denotes one kind of thing is applied to a distinctly different kind of thing, without asserting a comparison." (Abrams, M. H., 1999, p. 97)

"A figure of speech in
which one thing is described in terms of another." (Cuddon, J. A., 2013, p. 449)]]> 2020-07-02 15:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/646077959 https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/646100846 Abrams, M. H. (1999). A Glossary of Literary Terms (7th ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Heinle &Heinle.

Cuddon, J. A. (2013). A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (5th ed.). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

Cormier, R. (1977). I am the Cheese. New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf.

]]> 2020-07-02 15:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/646100846 Personification https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/646142551 Hidden behind the clouds, the sun expects not to catch the virus. ]]> 2020-07-02 16:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/646142551 Personification https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/646163919 Reality comes into my house through the skylight. ]]> 2020-07-02 16:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/646163919 Similie https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/646176400 The bars of the window look as if they were bars of a prison. ]]> 2020-07-02 17:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/camiochoa98/bxc6x4cxdm3f7dfz/wish/646176400