The previous literature lesson was about literary devices. I've learnt some of the literary devices before in Secondary 1, so I was able to understand what Mrs Woo was teaching about. Some examples of literary devices are simile and personification. Examples of diction and sentence structure are connotation, oxymoron, hyperbole, paradox, simple sentence, complex question, incomplete question, exclamation, rhetorical question and repetition. Based on some of the exercises in the worksheets which we were required to do, I found it rather difficult to give comments for the literary devices. We have to give evidence and elaboration along with the literary device.
Mrs Woo taught us to read the passage a few times slowly and carefully and pick out those important points and highlight it, for instance, the literary devices and evidence. Some example of the exercises on page 11 of the notes, "... but even though I study very hard, cannot remember or concentrate." It is an incomplete sentence because the writer did not write it in a complete sentence and it was not proper English. The writer used this literary device to highlight her agony to the readers, to show that she was upset and affected and wrote in this manner. Another example of literary device is "blank, blank, blank!!! pass pass pass!!!" Repetition is used here to emphasize that the writer is desperate to pass her exams so that she can please her parents.
In conclusion, I found the lesson very interesting as we all got to learn something new. To me, I feel that literary devices are important because we all use them in our daily conversations but fail to realize and comprehend it. Like the reason why we use repetition is to exaggerate and emphasize that we are desperate for something or want something badly. I hope Literature classes in future will be interesting as well.