Literary Devices Flashcards
My flowers were begging for water.
Personification
Hyperbole
She climbs like a monkey.
Simile
He’s running faster than the wind.
Hyperbole
What’s the headcount for next week’s party?
Synecdoche- ‘head’ is being used to signify a whole person
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Assonance - repetition of the short e and long i sounds
I am so thirsty that my throat is as dry as the Sahara desert.
Simile
Hyperbole
The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens.
Metaphor
The approaching car’s headlights winked at me.
Personification
I heard the door ‘ding-a-ling’ and groaned as I knew exactly who it was.
onomatopoeia - ‘ding-a-ling’
From what I’ve tasted of desire
Synaesthesia ‘tasted of desire’
His smile is like kryptonite to me.
Kryptonite is an allusion to the Superman movies/comics where, even though he has super powers, kryptonite is his weakness.
My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
Personification
He pointed an angry finger at me.
Transferred epithet -the finger isn’t actually angry, it has no feelings.
My big brother is a couch potato.
Metaphor
“Horsey horsey don’t you stop
Just let your feet go clippetty clop
The tail goes swish and the wheels go round
Giddy up, we’re homeward bound.”
onomatopoeia - ‘clippetty clop’
‘swish’
That guy is as nutty as a fruitcake.
Simile
She looked at him through concerned eyes
Transferred epithet - eyes cant actually be concerned
I was interviewed by Forbes.
Synecdoche- They were actually interviewed by a single interviewers not the whole publication ‘Forbes’
The shopping cost me a million dollars.
Hyperbole
‘During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country.’
Pathetic fallacy - creating a sullen, depression mood through the weather - ‘dull, dark’, ‘the clouds hung oppressively low’
Does it count if we were on a break?
References to the show Friends
Back to the region where the sun is silent.
Synaesthesia ‘ silent sun’
At five o’clock, the interstate is always a parking lot.
Metaphor
A friendly sun shone down brightly on the party guests as they arrived in the garden.
Pathetic fallacy
The “boom” of a firework exploding hurt my ears.
onomatopoeia
Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind. So furious had been the gusts, that high buildings in town had had the lead stripped off their roofs; and in the country, trees had been torn up, and sails of windmills carried away; and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of shipwreck and death.
Pathetic fallacy
Hyperbole
Personification
She felt like she had a golden ticket.
Allusion to Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
She’s as skinny as a toothpick.
Hyperbole
simile
The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.
Assonance - repetition of the long a sound
My sister is the devil.
Metaphor
hyperbole
He completed his scorching guitar solo.
Synaesthesia - ‘scorching guitar solo’
The police were at my neighbor’s house last night
Synecdoche- the whole police weren’t at their neighbors house just a couple
The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
Personification
She looked like Venus
Allusion - Venus was the Goddess of Beauty
