https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y For this assignment, you will be exploring literary devices. Do some research, and uncover some literary devices that you are not familiar with. Some more common literary devices include simile, metaphor, imagery, symbolism, foreshadowing, and allegory. Once you have researched, either find an example of your favorite literary device, or create your own example. Post your examples on this Padlet! Once you have posted, respond to one classmates example with feedback. Some ways to give feedback include: Is this also your favorite literary device? Why or why not? Did they use the literary device correctly? Is the literary device effective? en-us 2020-12-12 21:21:17 UTC 2025-04-11 13:35:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1012833400 Coffee nurtures, enhances, and with deafening flavor it soothes; with blinding speed it brings us closer to Heaven. - Brian]]> 2020-12-12 22:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1012833400 https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1012888744 This was a new one for me.  It is often used in speech, but we don't realize it. Essentially it means to use part of an identification to refer to the whole name or process that is happening.  An internet source example is, "Nice wheels you've got there." In this, they are not merely looking at the wheels of the vehicle. They are referring to the vehicle as a whole only by saying "wheels".

For my example I will say, "He feared being late, so he laced up and ran out the door." There are two synecdoche occurrences in this phrase. "Laced up" refers to him getting dressed and prepared for the day, not just putting shoes on. Also, "ran out the door" refers to him leaving his house and driving away to his destination by only referring to the action of running out the door.
- Jordan Thorburn]]> 2020-12-13 00:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1012888744 https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1013048673 Example: my brother likes to say "I liked the mango" instead of the manga to annoy people.]]> 2020-12-13 04:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1013048673 https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1013462555 I've always been a fan of alliteration. Some of the best tongue twisters are just alliteration. Essentially, a series of quick words in succession that all start with the same letter. 

Because I grew some peppers over the summer, I'll go with the example of famous Peter Piper. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?"

]]> 2020-12-13 12:27:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1013462555 ltcunnin https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1014048090 I like to read stories that are not on a linear timeline. Sometimes this includes flashbacks to a character's past. They are effective in that they can provide mystery, or an answer to a long thought question of the reader's, or any number of things an author wants it to fulfill. I read lots of historical fiction that flips between the past and present day, flashbacks are essential to these stories.
A flashback can be a whole chapter, so I will just offer a general example: 
Staring at the red stoplight violently swaying in the wind, I began to tremble with memories I had fought so hard to forget. That night came back to me so quickly it was as if it never left. The red tail lights swerving until they disappeared over the cliff, the silence of the world around me until I heard the crunch of the vehicle at the bottom. The wind whistling like the screams of the people that were most likely dead. A blaring honk from behind startled me from the past that was now in front of me, and I....


My reply for Jordan's synecdoche.
I find them strange, haha. The first time I was given a word for it was in a college poetry course. They are everywhere once you learn what they are: popular phrases, general terms, even brand names. I always liked threads used to describe clothing- "Check out my new threads." I think its an effective tool in poetry and prose since those are usually shorter pieces of work, but meant to be deep and personal. ]]> 2020-12-13 19:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1014048090 hrmccord https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1014308392 I have always enjoyed stories that had personified objects. I feel like it adds a fun element to the story that wouldn't have been there otherwise. I remember writing a story where we had to personify an object (I was in first grade, so my object was a toy unicorn). I just remember how much fun it was to write about this toy unicorn, so I think that has helped me have an appreciation of personification that I wouldn't have had. 

Example: The doll in the corner of my room jumped of the chair, and crawled over to my bed. I heard it moving as I was trying to sleep. 



Response to Lyndsay's Flashback Post:

I also enjoy flashbacks in stories! I like the element of going back in time to answer a question or go in-depth about a specific situation. I specifically love them in mystery stories, because I like how the flashbacks always seem to hold all the answers! Flashbacks have to be integrated well though, or else it can make the story super confusing. One time I was reading a story that did not integrate a flashback well, and it took me like half of the flashback to understand that I was reading a flashback and not the present time. ]]> 2020-12-13 22:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1014308392 https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1014615013 I have always found it so satisfying if a book has some amount of foreshadowing in it. There is just something about everything clicking together towards the end and then realizing all those small moments were really amounting up to something bigger.
One example of really good foreshadowing that I like is from The Hunger Games during a conversation Katniss and Peeta are having not long before they will go to the arena: Peeta says, "I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense? I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I'm not." Anyone who has read the books or seen the movies knows that in the end, Peeta is kidnapped by the Capitol and turned into a sort of "mutt" who is supposed to kill Katniss. This quote was foreshadowing Peeta becoming everything he feared he would during the Hunger Games. 

]]> 2020-12-14 02:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1014615013 https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1015202142 This is now my favorite literary device.  I love some good humor.  It reminded me of Charlie Kelly from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.  In their greatest scene, he has a job of sorting the mail and due to his illiteracy,  he mistakes letters marked Pennsylvania for Pepe Silvia. And where he sees Carol, it actually says Care Of:  He thinks he has unearthed some massive company conspiracy in which employees are disappearing.  Honestly, this might just be fan speculation.  Maybe the writers never intended for there to be malapropisms, but it's funnier this way.  - Brian Snoke]]> 2020-12-14 08:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1015202142 https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1022137567 In poetry, things that look like they should rhyme but do not.
Examples:
1. Thought and ought
2. Tomorrow and Sorrow
3. Move and Dove
4. Blight and Might
5. Mill and Fill
6. Intensify and Beautify 

]]> 2020-12-15 22:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1022137567 https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1022158670 I enjoy foreshadowing, my favorite is Macbeth, the witches (added in later) and the dreams that both Macbeth and Mrs. Macbeth have throughout the play. ]]> 2020-12-15 22:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ashmdunc/qt03eurmw4o09y/wish/1022158670