The Wars By: Timothy Findley

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The WarsBy Timothy Findley

• Literary and Rhetorical Devices

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What are Literary and Rhetorical Devices?

• Literary and rhetorical devices are specific
  constructions of language used by the author to
  bring meaning
• An authors use of literary and rhetorical devices
  usually occur - within a single phrase or
  word - or a particular ground of words or
  phrases

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Examples of How Literary and Rhetorical Devices
Are Displayed

• Alliteration
• Hyperbole dramatic irony
• Irony
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Allusion

• Repetition, synecdoche, litotes
• Personification
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia
• Parallelism
• symbolism

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How Did Timothy Findley Use These Devices ?

• Timothy Findley uses most of these devices to
  help enhance the theme, setting and plot of the
  novel.

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Quiz

• What literary/rhetorical device does this quote
  display
• Quote Long thick curls of smoke were blowing
  overhead as if there was a storm of fire

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Quiz cont

• In the firelight, his eyes were very bright.
  His lips were slightly parted. His face and the
  backs of his hands were streaked with clay and
  sweat. His hair hung down across his
  forehead.(pg.1)
• Is this quote an example of_____
• Simile
• Personification
• Imagery
• oxymoron

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Quiz Cont

• What symbol reminds Robert Ross of Rowena
• a) animals
• b) rabbits
• c) birds
• d) horses

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Quiz Cont

• Re-arrange these letters to reveal the literary
  device being used in this quote
• Word ONTIEITPER
• Quote "it sang and sang and sang, till Robert
  rose and walked away"

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Quiz Cont

• As it did this, the earth and the sandbags
  slowly slid across the tin, making a sound like a
  long, deep wave retreating over a pebble beach.
• This is an example of_________

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Quiz Cont

• Which quote is an example of personification?
• a) "one day bled into the next"
• b) Leather beckoned him into the Signals Office
  and consulted a map
• c) It was because of the horses that Robert met
  Eugene Taffler

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Quiz Cont

• "thump! thump! thump!""bang! bang!
  bang!""Master Stuart made his letters into paper
  darts and launched them page by page from the
  roof of the house- watching them descend and fade
  into the green ravine below while he muttered
  rat-a-tat-tat! Boom! Boom! Rat-a-tat-tat! Boom!
  Karoom!"
• These quotes are examples of ______ and ______.

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Quiz Cont

• "he began to squeeze the trigger and he squeezed
  it again and again and again.
• This is an example of.
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Repetition
• alliteration

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The End Rhetorical/Literary Devices

• Brittany Smith
• Liz Atkins
• Christina Dermentzis
• Khalil Rajan