How literary devices enhance themes
- Tone/Mood
- Word choice - metaphors, simile, connotation, personification
- Imagery - senses, especially sound
- Style - punctuation, syntax, etc.
- Theme
TWIST Practice Passages:
- "There was" statements, pp.7-8 or pp. 45-46
- Sign up for one sentence to TWIST with your partner
Writing CERs
- C = Claim = theme, author's intent, main idea -- your point about an idea
- E = Evidence = direct quotation that proves your point -- your illustration
- R = Reasoning = further information to prove your point Explain how a literary device enhances the theme addressed in your point. The R is also known as your explanation.
"There was the aura of limitless freedom distilled from the rolling sweep of tall green grass swaying and glinting in the wind and sun" (Wright 45).
T: nostalgic, serene, carefree
W: personification "swaying and glinting"; connotation "limitless freedom" very positive
I: shows the wind's effect on the grass with the words "rolling sweep"; expresses the brightness of the day with "glinting" and "sun"; there is an "aura of freedom" so it feels free; gives the sense of wind, relates to the sound of whooshing
S: sentence rolls similarly to the way the grass does by the way it's long and rolling
T: freedom and beauty to easily to those are let go
C: the author is expressing how the grass looked beautiful and free while being rolled down by the wind and glinting in the sun
E: the imagery and tones of nostalgia, serenity, and freedom
R: the connotation of those words prove it's true
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