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LET US ALL PRAY…
LITERARY TERMS AND DEVICES
GRADE 8
 P ERS ON A
refers to the VOICE a writer
creates to tell a story or to de-fine
the speaker in a poem.

A good question to begin is:

“Who is the speaker in the
poem?”
 T H E ME

refers to the underlying

message or “Big Idea”
about life that a writer
wants to get across.
 TO N E
Expresses the writer’s
attitude of feelings
toward his subjects.
the atmosphere in the
poem
You may use the following adjectives:
humorous, playful, light, hopeful, lyrical,
admiring, laudatory, sad, tragic, solemn,
sarcastic, ambivalent, etc.
 MO OD
Refers to the feeling
created in the readers as
they read a text which
is a result of the authors
tone and the
atmostphere of the text
 S I M I L E
Refers to the comparison
of one thing with
another thing of a different
kind,
Used to make a description
more vivid
Uses like or as when
comparing
ME T A P H OR
Refers to the Application of a
term or phrase to something to
which it is not literally applicable in
order to suggest or resemblance.

Suggest that something is

something else
HY P E R B O L E

refers to EXAGGERATION of
statements not to be taken
literally to emphasize a point

Ex:
“I warned her a million times
about the guy! ”
S YMB O L I S M

The author’s use of one thing,

usually physical object or
phenomena, to represent
something more abstract
Ex:
Red Flag = Warning/danger
Dove=Peace and freedom
P ER S O N I F I CA
T I ON
Refers to the giving an animal or
object qualities or abilities that only
human can have

Ex:
Lightning dance across the sky
O N O MA T O P O E I A

Refers to the use of

word/phrase that mimics a
sound

Ex:
Swoosh! We spend up to get
here fast.
 DAVID DIOP
 born July 9 ,1927 in Bordeaux
 One of the most talented of the
younger French west African poets of
the 1950’s
Diop lived his life transitioning cons-
tantly between France and West
Africa, from childhood onwards. 
He died in the crash of Air France
 Flight 343 at the age of 33 on 29
August 1960
"the voice of the people without voice"
 AFRICA
BY: DAVID DIOP

Africa my Africa
Africa of proud warriors in ancestral Savannahs
Africa of whom my grandmother sings
On the banks of the distant river
I have never known you
But your blood flows in my veins
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields
 AFRICA
BY: DAVID DIOP

The blood of your sweat

The sweat of your work
The work of your slavery
Africa, tell me Africa
Is this your back that is unbent
This back that never breaks under the weight of
humiliation
This back trembling with red scars
And saying no to the whip under the midday sun?
 AFRICA
BY: DAVID DIOP

But a grave voice answers me

Impetuous child that tree, young and strong
That tree over there
Splendidly alone amidst white and faded flowers
That is your Africa springing up anew
Springing up patiently, obstinately
Whose fruit bit by bit acquires
The bitter taste of liberty.