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Literary Devices
Personification, Idiom, Free Verse, Meter, Stanza
Personification
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
Examples?
Idiom
Type of Figurative Language
Meaning is different from the actual words used in the
expression
Figurative meaning is understood by a culture or a social
group
Great Britain
“Pop your clogs”
Examples?
Idiom Examples
Kick the bucket
Every cloud has a silver lining
The ball is in your court
Beats me
Hit the hay
Graveyard shift
Heard it through the grapevine
Free Verse
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
Meter
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks.
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem
A verse