creative writing lesson 2

• The use of figures of speech and diction plays an important role in completely utilizing the language that creative form of writing requires
• Literary devices enrich the message or theme that the writer wishes to convey to its readers
• Literary pieces depict not only the subject which they mainly feature, but also reveal the character of the author
• Written selections voice out the author's principles and ideals; made evident through words and language used throughout his/her work
• Robert Frost is highly regarded for his portrayal of rural life and his notable use of literary devices
• Simile


  A comparison of two essentially unlike things, often in a phrase, introduced by 'like' or 'as'
• Simile


  • You are like a lily in bloom
  • My love for you is as deep as the ocean
• Metaphor


  The use of a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing as that of another, making an implicit and direct comparison without using 'like' or 'as'
• Metaphor


  • My life became a sea of troubles the day I met you
  • All the world's a stage and we, the actors of the play called life
• Personification


  Endowing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas
• Personification


  • Hunger sat shivering on the road
  • Flowers danced about the lawn, swaying with the wind
• Hyperbole


  Extreme exaggeration to give emphasis or show extreme effect
• Hyperbole


  • I could sleep for a year
  • I have cried a bucket of tears for the boy who broke my heart
• Onomatopoeia


  The use of words to imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
• Onomatopoeia


  • The buzzing of the bees bothered my sister as they ate their lunch
  • The splashing of the water indicate that there were fish in the pond
• Apostrophe


  Directly addressing an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, as a living entity
• Apostrophe


  • Oh, my God!
  • Fate, why have you been so cruel to me?
• Metonymy


  Replacing one word or phrase for another, usually as a symbol with which it is closely associated
• Metonymy


  • White dove means peace
  • Laurel leaves means championship
• Oxymoron


  Using contradictory terms which are combined to make meaning
• Oxymoron


  • There was a deafening silence in the room when he entered
  • He was indeed a mournful optimist
• Irony


  An expression which is the opposite of what is meant
• Irony


  • A person who hates macaroni yet says, "I love macaroni!"
  • A lady who says "Good rats! You have destroyed my best gown!"
• Paradox


  A figure of speech which contradicts itself in the same sentence
• Synecdoche


  A particular idea expressed through: a part for the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, the material for the thing made