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In a play, a character says, "My love is like a red, red rose." This literary device is being used to directly compare the character's love to a rose.
What is Simile
His anger was a volcano, ready to erupt at any moment.
"The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain." - This literary device is used to create a repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance
Referring to a car as "wheels" is an example of this literary device where one term is substituted for another closely associated term
What is metonymy
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely..."
What literary device is this?
What is players
In a novel, a character is described as having a heart of gold. This literary device is being used to attribute a noble quality to the character's heart
What is metaphor
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage." (2 parts)
What is extended metaphor with allusion
"I came, I saw, I conquered." - This literary device involves the omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses
What is asyndeton
"The White House issued a statement today." - This literary device uses a part of something to represent the whole
What is synecdoche
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of..."
What is dispair
"Time is a thief, stealing away our youth."
What is personification
"Into the woods went the children." - This sentence from a fairy tale is structured in an unusual word order
What is anastrophe
"Fair is foul and foul is fair." - This phrase presents contrasting ideas in a balanced structure.
Not all that glitters is gold." - This literary device uses understatement to emphasize a point by denying its opposite
What is litote
"O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is..."
What is won
The pen is mightier than the sword.
"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas."
- What is extended metaphor
"A penny saved is a penny earned." - This literary device uses a concise statement to express a general truth or moral principle
What is aphorism
The literary device used to give nature human-like qualities.
In a horror story, the wind howls, and the trees seem to whisper sinister secrets.
what is pathetic fallacy
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more..."
The literary device used to convey deeper meanings through symbolism in a novel. ie. characters represent abstract concepts like love and greed.
What is allegory
The literary device used for this. In a speech a politician repeatedly starts sentences with "We will fight..." to emphasize their determination.
What is anaphora
"O Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy victory?" - This is a direct address to abstract concepts.
What is apostrophe
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going." - This phrase repeats words in reverse order.
"Hope is the thing with feathers that..."
What is perches in the soul