Figurative Language & Rhetoric Review

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Figurative language in the quote: “At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the 16th century.” - Gabriel García Márquez

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Hyperbole

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Figurative language in: 'Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before' - "The Raven" by Poe?

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Alliteration

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Figurative language in Thoreau's quote: “The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere.”

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Allusion

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Figurative language in: 'Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.'

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Idiom

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Figurative language in Keats' quote: “Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”

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Imagery

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Figurative language in: “Our words are but crumbs that fall from the feast of the mind.” - Khalil Gibran

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Metaphor

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Figurative language in Poe's quote: "Keeping time, time, time... From the jingling and tinkling of the bells."

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Onomatopoeia

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Figurative language in Dickinson's quote: 'Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.'

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Personification

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Figurative language in the quote: “In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun.” - Stephen Crane

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Simile

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Figurative language type in the example: A text encouraging support for the Florida panther features an interview with a biologist expert on endangered species.

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Ethos