ACTIVITY 16 : THE WRITER’S MAGICAL TOOLS Example from text Literary Device Reason …from stepping silently past doorways, and moving like a shadow through the house,… Simile the usage of the word ‘like’ .No tears! I would have found obedience….How many nights my pillow would become a flood Hyperbole Flood – An exaggeration to the amount of tears …I stood like a trespasser in the shadow of the lime walk, and watched the house simile the usage of the word like …he shook his grizzled head as to tell himself he was a foolish old man dreaming of better times,… simile the usage of the word as Dumpa’s the problem’ (pgs 107,112,119 and 125 ) repetition Repeated to emphasise the point that Dumpa causes all the unhappiness. Outside, the wind still whistled through the trees,… personification the wind was given human attribution as it whistled.
A short list of literary devices used in the novel Step by Wicked Step by Anne Fine.
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ACTIVITY 16 : THE WRITERS MAGICAL TOOLSExample from text Literar
!e"i#e Rea$o%from stepping silently past doorways, and moving like
a shadow through the house,Simile the usage of the word like.No
tears! I would have found obedience.ow many nights my pillow would
become a floodyperbole !lood " #n e$aggeration to the amount of
tears I stood like a trespasser in the shadow ofthe lime walk, and
watched the housesimile the usage of the word likehe shook his
gri%%led head as to tell himself he was a foolish old man
dreamingof better times,simile the usage of the word as&umpa's
the problem' (pgs )*+,)),,))- and ),. /repetition 0epeated to
emphasise thepoint that &umpa causes all the
unhappiness.1utside, the wind still whistled through the
trees,personification the wind was given human attribution as it
whistled.
