12 Angry Men -- Poetic Devices

“You’d think they’d at least air-condition the place. I almost dropped dead in court.”

• Hyperbole
• Irony
• Synecdoche
• Metaphor

“We got a new kid pitching, Modjelewski, or whatever his name is. He’s a bull, this kid.”

• Personification
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

“How do you like him? It’s like talking to a dead phone.”

• Personification
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron

“You come in here and you vote guilty, and then this slick preacher starts to tear your heart out…”

• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Irony
• Synecdoche

“It’s pretty tough to figure, isn’t it? A kid kills his father. Bing! Just like that.”

• Anaphora
• Hyperbole
• Synecdoche
• Onomatopoeia

“Suppose we’re wrong! Suppose this whole building fell on my head. You can suppose anything.”

• Anaphora
• Assonance
• Hyperbole
• Irony

“It’s one of the products I work on at the ad agency. Rice Pops. ‘The Breakfast with the Built-in Bounce.’”

• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Consonance

“The kid is guilty! He’s got to burn! We’re letting him slip right through our fingers here!”

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Allusion
• Anaphora

“I don’t see why we have to behave like children in here.”

• Simile
• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Personification

“I haven’t seen him in three years. Rotten kid! You work your heart out…”

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Synecdoche
• Alliteration