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Literary Devices in "The Raven" Analysis

The document provides instructions for students to analyze Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" by identifying literary devices. It has students create a Google Doc to list examples of literary devices from the poem. It then defines common literary devices and provides examples. Finally, it instructs students to make a Canva storyboard with panels explaining literary devices, definitions, examples from the poem, and how each device strengthens the poem.

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Literary Devices in "The Raven" Analysis

The document provides instructions for students to analyze Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" by identifying literary devices. It has students create a Google Doc to list examples of literary devices from the poem. It then defines common literary devices and provides examples. Finally, it instructs students to make a Canva storyboard with panels explaining literary devices, definitions, examples from the poem, and how each device strengthens the poem.

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Have one member of your group create a Google Doc and add all members as

editors of the document.

Once everyone has access, think back to reading


“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. Scan through the poem (available on Schoology),
and identify as many literary devices as you can.

On the Google Doc, give the name of the literary device and
an example from the poem.
Literary
Devices
Simile
compares two things using “like” or “as”

Example: “Up above the world so high


like a diamond in the sky”
Metaphor
compares two things directly

Example: Life is a highway.


Alliteration
Repeating the first letter of the words
in a line or sentence

Example: Peter Piper picked a peck


of pickled peppers.
Hyperbole
Exaggeration typically not meant to be
taken literally

Example: Cry me a river.


Allusion
A reference to another literary work,
person, or historical event

Example: “You were Romeo, you were


throwing pebbles.”
Irony
Saying the opposite of what is literally
meant

Example: Saying, “What a beautiful


day,” when it is raining and cold.
Oxymoron
Contradictory terms used in
conjunction (together)

Example: “I’ve never heard silence


quite this loud.”
Personification
Giving human traits to an inanimate
object

Ex: The tree danced in the wind.


Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds in words

Example: Mike’s bike has bright stripes.


Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds in
words

Example: They found a bond that


transcends the beyond.
Symbolism
The use of symbols to represent ideas
or qualities

Example: The color red is typically


used to symbolize love or anger.
Repetition
Repeating something that has already
been said.

Example: The soup was stirred and


stirred until it was ready.
Anaphora
Repeating the first word or words of a
phrase

Example: This love is good, this love is


bad, this love is alive back from the
dead.
Epistrophe
Repeating the last word or words of a
phrase

Example: Sunshine or rain, I’ll be there.


Whether good times or bad, I’ll be
there.
Now that we have reviewed literary devices and examples, revisit the
literary devices you have listed on your Google Doc, and make any
necessary changes.
Log in to Canva using your school e-mail. Have one member from each group
create a document and add all members as editors.

Choose a 4-panel storyboard template.

For this storyboard, every panel needs to have the name of the literary device,
definition, example, a visual depiction of the example, and what the use of this
literary device adds to the poem/how the use of the literary
device strengthens the poem
Example of a Storyboard Panel
compares two
Metaphor things directly

You do not have to format your


storyboard panels exactly like this,
but make sure you have all of
the required information in each
of your panels.

Example: “Life is a highway.”


This phrase is used to mean that life has
many twists and turns, but it is a journey
that keeps going and we should enjoy
the ride.

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