All Quiet on the Western Front Literary Devices

"The canteens hum like beehives full of rumors."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"...the stems gleam purest white and pastel-green leaves hang airily,"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"We are little flames poorly sheltered by walls,"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Our hands are earth, our bodies are clay, and our eyes are pools of rain,"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Death is hunting us down. We can see his face,"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"two men are smashed so that you could scrape them off the wall with a spoon and bury them in a mess-tin."

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• parallelism

• hyberbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"...attack follows attack along the weakening, retreating, crumbling lines,"

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• parallelism

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The world invented weapons and words,"

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• parallelism

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"the train stamps onward,"

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• parallelism

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Every day and every hour, every shell and every death..."

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• parallelism

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3