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How to explain a literary device?




Objectives :1.Identify device
                   2. Use guide to explain the device
Poems: Dreaming Black Boy Little Boy Crying
Brief notes- Repetition
 ‘I wish “- Imagery (Organic)
  The Person repeats the word ‘I wish’ throughout the poem and in the last stanza he repeats   ‘ I could suffer; and ‘ big ‘ to reinforce the horrors that exist in society. The phrases highlight the fear of the black child and the restrictions imposed on black in a racist society.
Use this guide to answer:
WHAT DID I USE TO EXPLAIN THE DEVICE?
·         Identify the device
·         Relate the quoted words to an imagery
·         Explain how  the image relate to the imagery in real life and in the context of the text
·         Tell if the comprise enhances the meaning, create rhythm or intensifies   
Repetition, “I wish”
 The speaker uses repetition with the phrases'I wish' to connote an organic imagery as he connects with the way he feels inside .He feels alienated, unaccepted and rejected by society because of his skin colour. The repeated phrases emphases his feelings for acceptance his feelings for ‘belongingness’ and peace. The repetition used intensities the mood of how the ‘black boy’ felt during racism.

Now try to explain two more devices from Dreaming Black Boy

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  1. LitLan GuruOctober 15, 2019 at 10:58 AM

    Grades 10 and 11 can complete the activities

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  2. Shaquille RobertsOctober 15, 2019 at 11:07 AM

    I'm no wood chopper now like all ancestor . similes
    A similes is uses in line 7 the speaker is enhancing the meaning of who he is by using
    wood chopper to allude to slavery and lack of freedom. he wants people to see him as a
    regular person so he uses visual imagery to state how he does not want them to see him.

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