Punctuation and Spacing
Then they separated
Me
From
You
White space
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter
Alliteration
The dog in the hat
Lay on the mat
Rhyme
They are like a stopped clock: only right twice a day
Simile
The sun shone on the salt flakes and melting snow covering the grey sidewalk.
Concrete imagery
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
End-stop
The window cracked as the ball knocked into it.
Onomatopoeia
She has a pet dog
Who likes to beg
For a bell
That it likes to roll.
Near-rhyme
He is a shield against the arrows of misfortune
Metaphor
The world is a beautiful place: a place of freedom, a place of ideals, a place of creativity.
Abstract words
Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east,
And one of them shot in the west by the sea.
Both ! both my boys ! If in keeping the feast
You want a great song for your Italy free,
Let none look at me !
Caesura
The cat in the hat
Was mad at the dad
And said "Off with his head!"
Internal rhyme
Pam the alligator practiced her tap dance.
Assonance
The desk groaned as yet another student sat on top of it.
Personification
"They got that rizz, yo"
Slang diction
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
enjambment
Rick Acklesby crunched the milk chocolate candy.
Consonance
Tim, his gills flip-flapping in the wind, wished he was still in his home city underwater.
Assonance
"But Mom, I've asked you a hundred trillion times if I could have a new phone!"
"And you'll have to ask a hundred trillion and one, because the answer is still no."
Hyperbole
I hate. The way. Green Beans. Taste.
Short, choppy syntax
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Enjambment
Misty ratted out the plot committed by treasonous traitor Kit Mutterstein.
Consonance
It’s gettin’ dark, too dark for me to see
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Repetition
The comedy show created a skit about a hero named Aluminum Man whose armor crumpled at the slightest touch.
Allusion (a reference to Iron Man)
You appear to be under the impression that it is dishonesty rather than moral values that is valued at this academic institution.
Formal diction