Description
Analyze Word Meaning – Figurative Language
ASSIGNMENT:
Identify three literary devices used within O. Henry’s “The Last Leaf” and
describe how they affect the tone of the story.
REMEMBER:
– The tone is the way the author expresses his or her attitude through
writing.
-An author’s tone can remain the same or change throughout the story.
-Tone can be somber, happy, depressing, angry, exuberant, comic, serious, ironic,
light, playful, etc.
COMMON LITERARY DEVICES:
-Metaphor – comparison of two unlike things. Example: The sea was a sheet of
glass.
-Simile-comparison of two unlike things using as or like. Example: The sea was
like a sheet of glass.
– Personification – giving human qualities to inanimate objects. Example: The sea
shone her bright countenance upon us all night.
-Hyperbole – using overstatement for special effect. Example: Since I ate a
mountain of pancakes, / wasn’t hungry for lunch.
– Paradox – something that seems nonsensical or self-contradictory on the surface
but on close examination expresses an underlying truth. Example: If you love until
it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love.
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