Name: Rayan Darby

Grade: 9-Daisy
Date: May 11, 2017
Subject: Literature
Teachers Name: Ms. Harris
The Definition Of The Figurative Devices
Simile - A figure of speech involving the comparison of one
thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a
description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion).

Metaphor - A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is

applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Alliteration - The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the

beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Personification - The attribution of a personal nature or human

characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an
abstract quality in human form.

Onomatopoeia - The formation of a word from a sound

associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle)

Oxymoron - A figure of speech in which apparently

contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept
him falsely trizzle).
 This Is The Dark Time My Love

This is the dark time, my love,

All round the land brown beetles crawl about.

The shining sun is hidden in the sky.

Red flowers bend their heads in awful sorrow.

This is the dark time, my love,

It is the season of oppression, dark metal, and tears.

It is the festival of guns, the carnival of misery.

Everywhere the faces of men are strained and anxious.

Who comes walking in the dark night time?

Whose boot of steel tramps down the slender grass?

It is the man of death, my love, the strange invader

Watching you sleep and aiming at your dreams.

The Poem That Gives An Example Of The Literary
Devices

Your mouth contorting in brief spite and hurt,

Your laughter metamorphosed into howls,
Your frame so recently relaxed now tight
With three year old frustration, your bright eyes
Swimming tears, splashing your bare feet,
You stand there angling for a moment's hint
Of guilt or sorrow for the quick slap struck.
 Bibliography
Geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2007/04/little-boy-crying-by-
mervyn-morris.

Google.com

Hotchocolateandbooks.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/poem-
this-is-the-dark-time-my-love-by-martin-carter/
 The Theme

The theme in Little Boy Crying by Mervyns Morris is about a child

being slapped by his father and the different feelings the two people
have, such as the child imagines his father like an ogre that is towering
above him, and his father is in grief of having to slap his child but he
still does as he is trying to teach him a lesson and what is right and what
is wrong.
 Table of Content

The Definition Of The Figurative Devices....................................1

This Is The Dark Time My Love...................................................2
Example Of The Literary Devices.................................................3
The Theme.....................................................................................4
Bibliography..................................................................................5
 Introduction

This project is based on the little boy crying. You will find the examples

of the literary devices, the dark time my love, the theme, the figurative

devices for example: Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Personification,

Onomatopoeia and Oxymoron.

 Acknowledgement

Firstly I would like to thank God.

Secondly I would like to thank my mother and uncle for assisting

me with this assignment.

Thirdly I would like to thank my teacher for giving me this

assignment on The Little Boy Crying.