Another meaningful week had ended and I will now share what I have learnt over this week's literature lessons.I have learnt twenty-five literary devices and they are: gustatory, kinesthetic, auditory, personification, visual, tactile, simile, metaphor, olfactory, symbol, incomplete sentence, simple sentence, complex sentence, connotation, paradox, exclamation, hyperbole, repetition, oxymoron, rhetorical question, onomatopoeia, rhythm, rhyme, tone and alliteration. Out of all of them, I already learnt some in the past. For the incomplete, simple and complex sentence, I think that they are quite easy as all of them are about a sentence whether it is with one idea or more or a truncated sentence. Among them, my favourite literary device is personification. It means a trope or figure of speech (generally considered a type of metaphor) in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. The reason I chose it is because it gives the dead one or an object a human-like quality. Examples are "Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak."(Macbeth:Act III, Scene 4 Line 124) and
"Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care," (Macbeth:Act II, scene ii, line 48). In this way the non-human are described as living things like us. I also think that it is very interesting as using personification, you can have sentence like “The sun played hide and seek with the clouds”. There are also some other devices like oxymoron and hyperbole which I think are very amusing. Oxymoron means a single image or idea, made up of contradictory or incongruent images. Examples are thundering silence and sweet sorrow. Hyperbole means a deliberate exaggeration to emphasize a point or feeling like "She must have weighed a ton!" Lastly, I am glad to know so many new literary devices which can help me in literature. I hope to learn more devices in the future as many of them are very interesting which I could not wait to explore them out.
