Literary Devices

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Example of a literary device: 'Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long.'

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metaphor

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Example of a literary device: 'Now let me welcome everybody to the Wild Wild West, a state that's untouchable like Eliot Ness.'

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simile

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Example of a literary device: "We only said goodbye with words" and "I died a hundred times".

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hyperbole

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Example of a literary device: "You can hear happiness staggering down the street. Footprints dressed in red. The wind whispers, 'Mary'."

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personification

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All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. Identify the literary device.

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metaphor

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Example of a literary device: "Your suntan does rapidly peel and Your wise men don't know how it feels To be thick as a brick."

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simile

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Literary device in the lines: 'The screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways... as the radio plays'

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imagery

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Example of a literary device: "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?"

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simile

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Example of a literary device: 'You're gonna leave 'em falling down. Boom, boom, boom. Even brighter than the moon.'

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onomatopoeia

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Example of a literary device: "You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it. You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes."

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personification