Literary Devices
The dog scolded me.
What is personification?
Boom! Crash!
What is Onomatopoeia?
The night fell. The red waters of the swamp grew sinister and sullen. The tall pines lost their slimness and stood in wide blurred blotches all across the way, and a great shadowy bird arose, wheeled and melted, murmuring, into the black-green sky.
What is horror?
The cat slept on the windowsill.
What is a simple sentence?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is a rule of three?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
Her hair was like straw.
What is a Simile?
'The left arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud that way, and then only when you sit on the left-hand side of the driver.'
What is a mystery/detective story?
He plays the guitar, and she sings along.
What is a compound sentence?
The company is undergoing strategic personnel realignment
What is euphemism?
He claps his hands and stamps his feet.
What is assonance?
His eyes were coal.
What is a metaphor?
Climate scientists tell us that the world must drastically cut its fossil fuel use in the next 30 years to stave off a potentially catastrophic tipping point for the planet. Confronting this challenge is a moral issue, but it's also a maths problem- and a big part of the solution has to be nuclear power.
What is an article?
Although it was cold, we went hiking.
What is a complex sentence?
What's not to like?
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape.
What is imagery?
We eventually emerged into the tiny hilltop settlement of Hinterschellenberg, where the ruins of the appropriately named Upper Castle, built in the year 1200, made for an excellent spot to catch our breath after the climb.
What is travel writing?
Although she was tired, she finished her homework, and she went to bed early.
What is a compound complex sentence?
The sun was smiling down upon him.
What is pathetic fallacy?
He has transitioned to a more peaceful state.
What is a euphemism?
I'm feeling rather sleepy, but
I really don't know why.
What is enjambment?
My first memory of that day is the sublime pleasure of playing hopscotch in the mid-morning sun with perfect strangers from Pre-Primary. I was just beginning to bond with my playmates when I was suddenly whisked away and deposited in a noisy classroom overflowing with over a hundred First Graders, proud graduates of Pre-Primary...
What is a memoir?
Although the theory seemed implausible at first, subsequent research lent it unexpected credibility.
What is a complex sentence?
The weather is not unpleasant.
What is litotes?