Literary Devices Tech Project

"You’ve gotta be cruel to be kind.”

"Cruel to be kind" -Nick Lowe

What literary device is used here?

• Alliteration

• Paradox

• Epigram

• Antiphrasis

“Fearless people,

Careless needle.

Harsh words spoken,

And lives are broken.”

“Prayer for the dying” -Seal

What literary device is used here?

• Rhyme

• Personification

• Allusion

• Simile

“No sun will shine in my day today

The high yellow moon won’t come out to play”

“Concrete Jungle” -Bob Marley

What literary device is used here?

• Oxymoron

• Satire

• Personification

• Symbol

The entirety of the song “Hotel California” by the Eagles is often cited as a popular example of which literary device?

• Allegory

• Assonance

• Irony

• Oxymoron

What literary device is used in Nerissa’s speech here from The Merchant of Venice? (II.ix.ll.88-89)

“The ancient saying is no heresy:

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.”

• Hyperbole

• Couplet

• Alliteration

• Paradox

What literary device is used in Bassanio’s speech here from The Merchant of Venice? (III.ii.ll.25-26)

“Let me choose,

For as I am, I live upon the rack.”

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

“The customary reflection at once occurred to him that this had happened to Ivan Ilych and not to him, and that it should not and could not happen to him, and that to think that it could would be yielding to depression…” (Tolstoy 100)

What literary device is used here through reuse of the verb “occurred” for many different ideas?

• Repetition

• Asyndeton

• Zeugma

• Run-on sentence

“Having passed a sleepless night pacing up and down the veranda, he decided to go to St. Petersburg and bestir himself, in order to punish those who had failed to appreciate him and get transferred to another ministry.” (Tolstoy 111)

What does this line begin with?

• Gerund

• Fragment

• Anaphora

• Participle phrase

“Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked

He’s so mad, but he won’t give up that easy? No.”

“Lose Yourself” -Eminem

What literary device is used here?

• Assonance

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Consonance

“I need no permission, did I mention

Don’t pay him any attention.”

“Single Ladies” -Beyonce

What literary device is used here?

• Hyperbole

• Satire

• Consonance

• Metaphor