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    Literary devices are tools used by writers to hint at larger themes, ideas, and meaning. Some common literary devices include similes, metaphors, imagery, symbolism, and personification. Sound devices are also used by poets to convey meaning through techniques like rhyme, repetition, assonance, and alliteration. Literary devices and sound devices are analyzed through formalist and structuralist approaches, which focus on the inherent features of a text rather than its historical context.

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    Literary devices are tools used by writers to hint at larger themes, ideas, and meaning. Some common literary devices include similes, metaphors, imagery, symbolism, and personification. Sound devices are also used by poets to convey meaning through techniques like rhyme, repetition, assonance, and alliteration. Literary devices and sound devices are analyzed through formalist and structuralist approaches, which focus on the inherent features of a text rather than its historical context.

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    Literary devices are tools used by writers to hint at larger themes, ideas, and meaning. Some common literary devices include similes, metaphors, imagery, symbolism, and personification. Sound devices are also used by poets to convey meaning through techniques like rhyme, repetition, assonance, and alliteration. Literary devices and sound devices are analyzed through formalist and structuralist approaches, which focus on the inherent features of a text rather than its historical context.

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    Literary devices are tools used by writers to hint at larger themes, ideas, and meaning. Some common literary devices include similes, metaphors, imagery, symbolism, and personification. Sound devices are also used by poets to convey meaning through techniques like rhyme, repetition, assonance, and alliteration. Literary devices and sound devices are analyzed through formalist and structuralist approaches, which focus on the inherent features of a text rather than its historical context.

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    What are literary devices?

    Literary Devices are tools used by writers to hint at larger


    Read and analyze the poem. themes, ideas, and meaning in a story or piece of writing. Some
    of them are as follows:
    The Road Not Taken
    BY ROBERT FROST 1. Simile- (indirect comparison) two unrelated objects are being
    compared to each other with the use of the words “like” or “as.”
    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2. Metaphor- (direct comparison) a statement in which two
    And sorry I could not travel both objects, often unrelated, are compared to each other.
    And be one traveler, long I stood 3. Imagery- it engages the senses to deepen the reader's
    And looked down one as far as I could comprehension of what is happening and how to feel about it.
    To where it bent in the undergrowth; Types of Imagery
     Sight imagery
    Then took the other, as just as fair,  Sound imagery.
    And having perhaps the better claim,  Touch imagery
    Because it was grassy and wanted  Taste imagery
    wear;  Smell imagery
    Though as for that the passing there 4. Symbolism-uses symbols which can be words,
    Had worn them really about the same, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent
    something beyond the literal meaning.
    And both that morning equally lay 5. Personification- giving human attributes to
    In leaves no step had trodden black. nonhuman objects.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to Sound devices are special tools the poet can use to create
    way, certain effects in the poem to convey and reinforce meaning
    through sound. Some of them are:
    I doubted if I should ever come back.
    1. Rhyme- is the matching vowel sounds at the end of words or
    lines.
    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    2. Repetition- is the repeating of any words, phrases, sentences
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    or lines within a poem.
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    3. Assonance- is repetition of vowel sounds within words.
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference. 4. Alliteration- is the repetition of the consonant sounds at the
    beginning of words.

    5. Onomatopoeia- uses words which imitate the natural sounds


    of things
    Questions:
    ______________________________________________
     How would you imagine the setting of the poem? Identify the following statements. Choose from the word pool
     What does personal feels? Explain. in the box.
     What is the theme of the poem?
    Sound devices Literary devices
    What is Approach?
    Formalism Approach Alliteration
    - seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the
    Assonance Imagery Metaphor
    social, cultural, and intellectual context.

    Formalist/Structuralist Approach _____________1. These literary elements used in prose and


    - refers to critical approaches that analyze, interpret, or poetry to stress certain sounds and create musical effects.
    evaluate the inherent features of a text. These features _____________2. It refers to critical approaches that analyze,
    include not only grammar and syntax but also literary interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of a text.
    devices such as meter and figures of speech. _____________3. It is used to represent objects, actions and
    - The formalist approach reduces the importance of a text’s ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
    historical, biographical, and cultural context. _____________4. The repetition of vowel sounds in words that
    are close together in a sentence or verse.
    _____________5. A figure of speech that uses one thing to
    mean another and makes a comparison between the two.

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