All Quiet on the Western Front Literary Devices

Front

"The canteens hum like beehives full of rumors."

Back

simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

"...the stems gleam purest white and pastel-green leaves hang airily,"

Back

imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

"We are little flames poorly sheltered by walls,"

Back

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Front

"Our hands are earth, our bodies are clay, and our eyes are pools of rain,"

Back

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Front

"Death is hunting us down. We can see his face,"

Back

personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

"two men are smashed so you could scrape them off the wall with a spoon and bury them in a mess-tin."

Back

hyberbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Front

"...attack follows attack along the weakening, retreating, crumbling lines,"

Back

parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

"The world invented weapons and words,"

Back

alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

"the train stamps onward,"

Back

onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

"Every day and every hour, every shell and every death..."

Back

parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3