Thursday, 24 September 2015

Literary Devices in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (In class work)

Class Work 22nd September- 24th september

The pages i used for these examples are pages 25-26

If any of my example quotes are in Purple this is because i do not know which page they are from i just remember them.



Personification- Giving a non human object a human action or attribute.
Examples of personification...


  • " The cab crawled"
  • "Daylight would glance between swirling wreaths"
Simile- Comparison of one thing to another thing using "as" or "like"
Examples of similes...

  • " for here it would be dark like the back end of evening"
  • "like some dammned juggernaught"
  • "there would be a glow of rich lurid brown like the light of some strange conflagration"
  • "as brown as umber"

Metaphors- A word that compres 2 objects that are unlikely to be compard, the word is mostly literally incorect and impossible to that object
Examples of Metaphors..

  • "poor Henry Jekyll, my mind misgves me, he is in deep water"
  • "haling down a storm of blows"
  • "the first fog of the season. A great chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven"

Pathetic Fallacy- attrivuting human feelings to inhuman things, its environment reflcts emotion
Examples of pathetic fallacy...

  • "a sinister block of buildings"
  • In the middle of the book there is a part where the moon is described as laying on its back like the wind had tilted it. This is a example of patheti fallacy.
Contrast- the difference of or between 2 objects

Comparison- The similaritys between 2 objects, comparing  and looking at them to find the similaritys

Imagery- the use of figurative language for or to a object that appeals to our senses

Juxtaposition- Placing 2 or more objects next to each other or close to see a bigger contrast 




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