Literary
This tree is the god of the forest. This is a/an...
metaphor.
They are allusions.
“A time traveler goes back in time to murder her great-grandmother.”
“Nobody goes to the mall anymore — it’s too crowded.”
“I must be cruel only to be kind.” (Hamlet, III.IV.181)
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paradox.
a figure of speech that can seem silly or contradictory in form, yet it can still be true, or at least make sense in the context given. This is sometimes used to illustrate thoughts or statements that differ from traditional ideas. So, instead of taking a given statement literally, an individual must comprehend it from a different perspective.
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symbolism.
... is a story whose sole purpose is to represent an abstract concept or idea. As such, allegories are sometimes extended allusions (...)
George Orwell’s "Animal Farm"
Plato, "The Cave"
An allegory...
... (using sight): The car ran a marathon down the highway.
... (using sound): The car coughed, hacked, and spluttered.
... (using touch): The car was smooth as a baby’s bottom.
... (using taste): The car tasted the bitter asphalt.
... (using smell): The car needed a cold shower.
... (using mental events): The car remembered its first owner fondly.
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personification.
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hyperbole.
An over-dramatic and/or exaggerated description or statement.
The beautiful bouquet blossomed in the bright sun.
Alliteration.
The forest was hushed, resounding with echoes of the tree’s stoic silence.
What is this?
Sound imagery
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oxymoron.
two seemingly contradictory words are placed together because their unlikely combination reveals a deeper truth.
Beat around the bush > To avoid talking about what’s important
Get your act together > Get organized and do things effectively
Hit the sack > Go to sleep
Your guess is as good as mine > I do not know
Good things come to those who wait > To have patience
Back against the wall > Stuck in a difficult circumstance with no escape
Idioms
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“You can tune a guitar, but you can’t tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.”
"You insisted on being right so I just decided to go left."
"Don’t spell part backward. It’s a trap!"
Puns.
A kind of wordplay that takes advantage of words having the same sound but having more than one meaning at the same time.
Euphemism
Dylan Thomas’
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light…
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Assonance:
the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences.
Assonance is a literary device that can affect the mood, rhythm, and tone of a poem or a song; it even sets it.
Synecdoche.
Use part of something to represent the whole.
I Have a Dream speech by Dr. Martin Luther King.
“Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.”
Anaphora
The repetition of a word or phrase or expression at the beginning of phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses successively with the main purpose of having a rhetorical or poetic effect.
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, ...
"A Tale of Two Cities", by C. Dickens
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antithesis.
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Onomatopoeia.
...allow the writer to pack multiple descriptions and images into one short sentence.
Metaphors...
The tree spread its gigantic, sun-flecked shoulders.
What is this?
Sight imagery.
"Ben lost his car keys and can’t find them anywhere.” (Meanwhile: they are sitting in plain view on his desk… at the detective agency he runs.)
Irony
My hair feels as smooth as silk.
What is this?
Touch imagery.