Poetic Devices

Old Marley was as dead as a door nail.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• understatement

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• alliteration

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• rhetorical question

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone Scrooge!

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

“Plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” (Richard Cushing)

• allusion

• understatement

• rhetorical question

• hyperbole

“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.” (Dickens, A Christmas Carol)

• alliteration

• allusion

• metaphor

• personification

“To err is human; to forgive is divine.” (Pope)

• understatement

• allusion

• hyperbole

• antithesis

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“What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.” – George Bernard Shaw

• paradox

• analogy

• understatement

• apostrophe

“This stuff is used motor oil compared to the coffee you make, my love”

• simile

• oxymoron

• rhetorical question

• hyperbole

"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" - Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

• simile

• rhetorical question

• understantement

• allusion

The structure of an atom is like a solar system. The nucleus is the sun, and electrons are the planets revolving around their sun.

• allusion

• simile

• metaphor

• analogy