Literary Devices

The righteous shall flourish as the palm tree.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

42. "Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again . . .." (Paul Simon, The Sounds of Silence)

• personification

• apostrophe

• anaphora

• juxtaposition

“He saw the cost and hauled off”.

• alliteration

• assonance

• hyperbole

• allegory

Purple puppies like playing on the playground.

• personification

• alliteration

• anaphora

• motiff

Wonderfully whistling woods

• personification

• alliteration

• anaphora

• assonance

You look beautiful in your shabby attire.

• hyperbole

• irony

• oxymoron

• contrast

Your beauty blinds me.

• hyperbole

• irony

• oxymoron

• contrast

A press conference by the Pentagon

• metonymy

• synecdoche

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

Careless cutting cars

• personification

• anaphora

• alliteration

• motif

Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.

• Aphorism

• apostrophe

• analogy

• antithesis