Sentence Type
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain
Simple
“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor
Simile
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright
nourish me, I had
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”
― Richard Wright
Answers vary; Example: reading books was addicting to him
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley
Repetition
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy
Complex
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
Hyperbole
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That my dear is love.”
-Franz Kafka
That, my dear, is love.
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Answers vary; Example: genius brings depression
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott,
Juxtaposition
“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― Angie Thomas
Compound
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes."
-William Faulkner
Metaphor
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen
to love, from love to
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
Answers vary; Example: Loves brings out the best in us
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
― Eudora Welty
Personification
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck
Compound Complex
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other”
-Anton Chekhov
Personification
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl
stick-out teeth, but if you
“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes
Answers vary; Example: People's dreams make life worth living
“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
― James Joyce
Alliteration
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell
Simple
“All of a sudden, bang! bang! bang! goes three or four guns—the men had slipped around through the woods and come in from behind without their horses!”
-Mark Twain
Onomatopoeia
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“The opposite of love is not hate it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel
not hate, it's indifference
not ugliness, it's indifference
not heresy, it's indifference
not death, it's indifference
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
Answers vary; Example: People focus on other problems, but not their own.
“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”
― Joseph Conrad
Analogy