1. Literary Devices

2. What is a literary device
What is a literary device? A literary technique that produces a specific effect.

3. Imagery
A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell;
Imagery includes the senses, rather than just forming a mental picture.

4. Imagery

5. Examples of Imagery “Preludes” by T. S. Eliot
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet

6. Examples of Imagery
"I lay still and took another minute to smell: I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell of *silage, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall. I could pick out the acrid smell of Claire’s drenched diaper, her sweaty feet, and her hair crusted with sand.”
*food for livestock

7. Examples of Imagery
"At the next table a woman stuck her nose in a novel; a college kid pecked at a laptop. Overlaying all this, a soundtrack: choo-k-choo-k-choo-k-choo-k-choo-k--the metronomic rhythm of an Amtrak train rolling down the line to California, a sound that called to mind an old camera reel moving frames of images along a linear track, telling a story.“

8. Exaggeration
A literary device in which something is represented as greater than is actually the case; to overstate something or stretch the truth.

9. Example of Exaggeration
“Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard.”

10. Example of Exaggeration
"As I Walked Out One Evening"
By W.H. Auden
"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and
Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.“

11. Examples of Exaggeration
People moved slowly then. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

12. Dialogue
The lines spoken by a character or characters in a play, essay, story, or novel - especially a conversation between two characters.

13. Examples of Dialogue
“Hey, Catnip, ” says Gale. “Look what I shot.” He holds up a loaf of bread with an arrow stuck in it and I laugh.
“Mm. Still warm,” I say. He must have been at the bakery at the break of dawn to trade for it. “What did it cost you?”
“Just a squirrel. Think the old man was feeling sentimental this morning,” says Gale. “Even wished me luck.”

14. Examples of Dialogue
"Well, I had one that I was playing Quidditch the other night," said Ron, screwing up his face in an effort to remember. "What do you think that means?“ "Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry, turning the pages of The Dream Oracle without interest.