Crucible Literary Devices Review

 “He sits like some great bird.”

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“Suspicion kissed you when I did.”

• personification
• alliteration
• symbolism
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

 “I should hang ten thousand that should dare to rise against the law.”

• pun
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• parallel structure

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

“I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement.”

• allusion
• personification
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

“—a dagger clattered to the ground.”

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• metaphor

“She is a lump of vanity.”

• personification
• allusion
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

“Cain were an upright man, and yet he did kill Abel.”

• allusion
• pun
• symbolism
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“My wife will never die for me!”

• foreshadowing
• symbolism
• onomatopoeia
• simile

“Pontius Pilate!  God will not let you wash your hands of this!” 

• alliteration
• pun
• allusion
• parallel structure

“Out of sight and out of mind.” 

• repetition
• parallel structure
• simile
• personification