Sound Devices
The light of the fire is a sight that might bite you eye..
Assonance
What comparative literary is illustrated in the following example?
Ariel swims like a dolphin
Simile
What literary device is employed to contrast two opposite ideas or images by placing them in close proximity to one another?
Juxtaposition
What sense is appealed to in this poetic image?
Silence was broken by the peal of piano keys as Shannon began practicing her concerto.
Auditory
What literary device is employed in the following example?
This room is so cold that I’m getting hypothermia.
Hyperbole
Car Traffic Figures to be Tough on July Fourth.
Consonance
What comparative literary device is illustrated in the following example?
He is a stubborn goat of a man.
Metaphor
What type of irony is employed in the following example?
The marriage counselor files for divorce.
Situational
What sense is appealed to in this poetic image?
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.
Visual
What literary device is employed in the following example?
The storm trampled the town, washing it clean with its tears.
Personification
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
Alliteration
What comparative literary device is employed in these lines?
The bonsai tree
in the attractive pot
could have grown eighty feet tall
on the side of a mountain
till split by lightning.
But a gardener
carefully pruned it.
Extended Metaphor
What type of irony is employed in the following example?
I rather recommend buying the children alive and carving them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs.
Verbal Irony
What sense is appealed to in this poetic image?
The candy melted in her mouth and swirls of bittersweet chocolate and slightly sweet but salty caramel blended together on her tongue.
Gustatory
What literary device is employed in the following example?
The river water moistened the soil of the valley causing lush trees and foliage to pour forth upon the land.
Symbol
He prov'd he lov'd her and oft' burned wit' passion.
Elision
What comparative literary device is employed in this example?
That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet
Analogy
What type of irony is employed in the following example?
The audience knows that the wife plans to murder her husband, when she tells him "That he is so strong and healthy that he will love forever."
Dramatic Irony
What sense is appealed to in this poetic image?
She smelled the scent of sweet hibiscus wafting through the air, its tropical smell a reminder that she was on vacation in a beautiful place.
Olfactory
What literary device is employed in the following example?
As the man walked into the blizzard snows and howling winds, he noted that it was just a little bit nippy today.
Understatement
To be, or not to be — that is the question
Caesura
This is an example of what type of metaphor:
"Tony tucked his tail and ran."
Implied
Sarcasm is an example of this type of irony?
Verbal Irony
What sense is appealed to in this poetic image?
After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.
Tactile
What literary device is employed in the following example?
The moan of doves murmured in leafy elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees buzzed and sputtered below.
Onomatopoeia