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In The Hunger Games, Katniss' Mockingjay pin is an example of this device.
What is a symbol?
100
Capulet vs. Montague, Romeo vs. Parents, and Juliet vs. her doubts are examples of different forms of this.
What is conflict?
100
KRS One uses this device when he sings, "Woop -Woop! That's the sound of the police."
What is onomatopoeia?
100

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain

What is satire?

(other acceptable answer is irony)

100
Edgar Allan Poe uses this device when in the lines, "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" in the poem The Raven.
What is alliteration?
200
This device is shown in The Wizard of Oz through each of the characters Dorothy meets. The Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow each represent aspects of humanity.
What is allegory?
200
Juliet uses this device when she says, "My lips two blushing pilgrims ready stand" in Romeo and Juliet.
What is metaphor?
200
Miley Cyrus uses this device when she sings, "I came in like a wrecking ball."
What is simile?
200
Truman Capote used this device when he said, "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
What is metaphor?
200
Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken is a metaphor for some of the choices we make in life, and their consequences. This device would apply to the path itself and the two possible roads.
What is a symbol?
300
Ernest Hemingway used this device in the line, "He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling" in For Whom the Bell Tolls.
What is onomatopoeia or sensory language?
300
Shakespeare uses this device in the lines, “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life” from the Prologue of Romeo and Juliet.
What is alliteration?
300
Joni Mitchell uses this device when she sings, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
What is alliteration?
300
Albert Einstein used this device when he said, "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
What is simile?
300
Edgar Allan Poe uses this device in the following lines from The Bells: Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes,
What is assonance?
400

Saving Private Ryan opens and closes with an older man visiting a graveyard, and uses this device to connect to events earlier in his life that explain why he is there.

What is flashback?

400
Juliet speaking to herself on the balcony about her feelings for Romeo is an example of this.
What is soliloquy?
400
Bruno Mars uses this device when he sings, "I’d catch a grenade for you / Throw my hand on the blade for you / I’d jump in front of a train for you."
What is hyperbole?
400

"Put some dirt on the hero; put some sunshine on the villain." - Justin Cronin

What is characterization?

(other acceptable answer is irony)

400
Ralph Waldo Emerson uses this device when he writes, "Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world” in The Concord Hymn.
What is hyperbole?
500

This conversation from Shrek shows an analysis of which device: Shrek: Ogres are like onions. Donkey: They stink? Shrek: Yes. No! Donkey: They make you cry? Shrek: No! Donkey: You leave them out in the sun, they get all brown, start sprouting little white hairs. Shrek: No! Layers! Onions have layers!

What is simile?

500
The speech by the Prince at the end of Romeo and Juliet is an example of this.
What is resolution?
500
Simon and Garfunkel use these two devices in the lines, "Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I am a rock, I am an island."
What are alliteration and metaphor?
500
Alfred Hitchcock may be using this device when he says, “Puns are the highest form of literature."
What is hyperbole?
500
Coleridge uses this device when he writes, "Water, water everywhere / nor any drop to drink" in his poem Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.
What is irony?