Literary devices
This device compares two things using “like” or “as.”
simile
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more, you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on
Titanic
This device gives human qualities to objects or ideas.
personification
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Help me, help me,
Call me into the yellow-eyed night,
Can't you see - it's dying, oh, my heart is dying
In the lava-breathing love.
Diamond hands
This device exaggerates something for emphasis.
hyperbole
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
If I were a sultan, I would have three wives
And I would be surrounded by the triple beauty.
But on the other hand, when the things go this way
there can be so many troubles and worries, oh, save me, Allah!
The Caucasian Captive
This device creates a contrast between expectation and reality.
irony
Harry Potter
Joanne Rowling
they call me Cuban Pete. I'm the king of the rumba beat.
When I play the maracas I go chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky boom
Yessir, I'm Cuban Pete. I'm the craze of my native street.
When I start to dance,
everything goes chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky boom
The mask
This device is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
alliteration
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Suddenly, like in the fairytale,
The door creaked
And everything became clear to me
So many years I was fighting with my destiny
To meet you now
I froze, I swam across the seas
I know - everything was for s reason
Ivan Vasilevich changes his profession