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Literary Terms and Devices |
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Lyric |
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Metaphor |
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Mood |
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Meter |
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Myth |
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Narrator |
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For a current list of examinable literary terms and devices, click a link Grade 10 http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade10/en/07_terms_device.pdf Grade 12 http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade12/en/07_literary_terms.pdf |
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A metaphor is defined as a comparison between two or more seemingly unalike things that does not include the words “like or as”. For example: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; |
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Although there are many definitions for a lyric poem, they all seem to have in common the expression of a deeply felt emotion or personal response. The tone of a lyric poem is frequently expressed as reflective. |
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The meter is the pattern of rhythm—the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables—in a line of poetry. Iambic pentameter is a type of meter. |
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Mood is the overall emotional quality created by a piece of literature. |
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Myths are stories that may have some historical fact in them but tend to include the supernatural or the improbable. More importantly, perhaps, are the cultural values and universal truths about human nature revealed by the stories. |
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A narrator is the teller of story. The narrative voice may be from various points of view such as first person, third person, omniscient. |
