Literary Techniques Presentation
By: Kelly Stephenson
Language Analysis
Language analysis is understanding different types of language of speech and different types of literary techniques like figurative language, technical language, and connotative words.
Example 1: Connotation and Taylor Swift's Red
Explanation: A connotation is when the word brings an emotion with it or it has more then one meaning. Taylor Swift's song Red is a good example because she uses all different colors to explain what she's feeling. One lyric is "Losing him was blue like I'd never known." It uses blue like sad and people know that.
Example 2: Technical Language and The Dictionary
Explanation: Technical language is the dictionary meaning of a word or the literal meaning of a word. The dictionary is a good example because everything in the dictionary is the literal meaning of these words. It says that down means, "toward or in a lower place or position, especially to or on the ground or another surface."
Example 3: Figurative Language and Troye Sivan's Ease
Explanation: Figurative language is an expression or saying that is not supposed to be taken literally. In Troye Sivan's Ease it says, "But the truth is the stars are falling." He doesn't really mean the stars are falling even though he says the truth is.
Figurative Language
Figurative Language is types of language where it's not supposed to be literal. They create a picture for people because they usually knows what it means. There are different kinds like alliterations, metaphors and similes, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, etc.
Example 1: Alliteration and Bed Bath & Beyond
Explanation: Alliteration is when all or most of the words start with the same letter or the sound. Bed Bath & Beyond is an alliteration because it all start with a B and people remember it because of that.
Example 2: Metaphor and Panic! At The Disco's This Is Gospel
Explanation: A metaphor is a comparison that is a direct comparison saying that it is actually something. In Panic! At the Disco's This is Gospel it says, "'Cause these words are knifes that often leave scars." He doesn't mean the words are actual knifes but they hurt like knifes and leave emotion scars not physical scars.
Example 3: Personification and Peter Rabbit
Explanation: Personification is when a not human thing is given human qualities like clothes or walking on two feet or being able to speak. Peter Rabbit is a small bunny rabbit that has clothes and talks. This is because it is a children's story so it is more interesting for the children.
Sensory Details
Sensory Details are details that use the 5 senses so it creates an image with not only seeing but with your other senses. So there is taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing.
Example 1: Sight and Ed Sheeran's Castle on the Hill
Explanation: Sight is when you describe something with what you see. It's an observation or a description of what you saw. Ed Sheeran's Castle on the Hill is a good example of sight for sensory details because on line says, "We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill." People can relate because most people have seen a sunset and it's a sight detail because they described what they saw, a sunset over the castle on the hill.
Example 2: Taste and Trish Cook's Outward Blonde
Explanation: Taste is where you describe something with what you taste. It's describing what you are eating or what you taste. Trish Cook's Outward Blonde is a book and one of the things it says is, "I take a sip from my water bottle and immediately spit what goes into my mouth right back out. "It tastes like egg farts!""." In the book the narrator describes what they think the water tastes like.
Example 3: Hearing and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Explanation: Hearing is where you describe something with what you hear or what sound something is making. In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets the text says, "But as Harry climbed onto the windowsill there came a sudden loud screech from behind him, followed immediately by the thunder of Uncle Vernon's voice." It describes what Harry hears, the owl screeching and Uncle Vernon's voice.
Literary Techniques
Literary techniques are techniques writers use to make their story more interesting or to make it more meaningful. Literary techniques can include dialogue, irony, theme, etc.
Example 1: Theme and The Little Engine That Could
Explanation: The theme of a book is the subject of the book or what the book's about or the topic. In The Little Engine That Could the theme is to preserver to to to be optimistic and have a good effort and to try hard.
Example 2: Allusion and Troye Sivan's For Him
Explanation: An allusion is when you make a reference to something or someone. In Troye Sivan's For Him while All Day is rapping is says, "I'd rather panic at the disco and you'd rather watch a TV Show." Which alludes to the band Panic! At The Disco.
Example 3: Dramatic Irony and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Explanation: Dramatic irony is when the audience or readers know more than the characters do. During Romeo and Juliet the audience knows that Juliet isn't really dead but Romeo doesn't so he kills himself.