2.1.4 Rhetorical Devices

The sun smiled and stretched as she awoke this morning.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

Are you kidding me?

• Repetition

• Rhetorical Question

The birds chirped this morning and there was a pearly white mist over the lake.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Irony

• Metonymy

The flower was as blue as the sky.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

Someone saying "What nice weather we are having" in the middle of a thunderstorm.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Irony

• Metonymy

Give me loyalty, or give me death.

• Repetition

• Rhetorical Question

If it rains anymore, we will have to build an arc.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

The thief's heart was as cold as stone.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

The apples tasted so good, I ate a million of them for lunch.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Irony

• Personification