In this blog, we will be discussing
literary terms used in Literature, in Spanish. Literary Devices refers to the typical structures used by writers
in their works to convey his or her messages in a simple manner to the readers.
When employed properly, the different literary devices help readers to
appreciate, interpret and analyze a literary work. Today, we will
look at the five (5) most common literary devices used in English:
Personification (Personificación), Hyperbole (Hipérbole), Comparison (Símil
o Comparación), Metaphor (Metáfora) and parallelism (Paralelismo).
Today, we will identify three in details.
(1)Personificación: Consiste en otorgar
cualidades de seres animados a seres inanimados o cualidades humanas a seres
animados o inanimados.
Giving human characteristics to inanimate Objects.
(2)Hipérbole: Es una exageración. This is an exaggerated statement.
(3)Comparación: Consiste en poner en relación mediante
el enlace “como” un objeto real y un objeto imagen de cualidades análogas. This is the comparison of Objects, using like or as.
Actividad para hoy: Read
the sentences below, and identify the personification, Hyperbole and
Comparison, using the Spanish Word for each.
(1) Anger bottled up inside him as he watched them dance. ____________
(2) The tree danced gracefully under the moon lit sky._________________
(3) The sun was shining among the palms as a ball of fire.______________
(1) Que es un Simil? Da un ejemplo
(2) Como puede describir un hiperbole? Da un ejemplo.
(3) Which literary device does this image reprsent?
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