Literary Devices

Front

‘I'm a crumpled piece of paper lying here, Cause I remember it all too well’ - All too Well, Taylor Swift

Back

Metaphor

Answer explanation

The speaker compares herself to a crumpled piece of paper

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

'Time, curious time' - 'Gave me no compasses, gave me no sign' - Invisible String, Taylor Swift

Back

Personification

Answer explanation

Time is personified. What does it mean for the speaker?

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Zombies eat brains. You’re safe.

Back

Sarcasm

Answer explanation

When a speaker is being sarcastic, he/she veils the true intention of the sentence with an ironic remark

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Front

'Water in the bight doesn’t wet anything' - The Bight, Elizabeth Bishop

Back

Paradox

Front

'Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle' - The Wanderer, W.H. Auden

Back

Alliteration

Answer explanation

Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Assonance: repetition of similar vowel sounds

Onomatopoeia: when the words sound like what they mean

We'll talk more about sound devices in the future💪🏼

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

'O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created, O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,' - Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Back

Oxymoron

Answer explanation

The difference between oxymoron and paradox is subtle.

Paradox: the opposition of ideas or themes ('I've never heard silence quite this loud')

Oxymoron: a contradiction merely between words ('old new')

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A