Identification - Devices

Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel.

• Paradox

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age regret.

• Euphemism

• Aphorism

• Absolute

• Hyperbole

She tried and failed to gain the crown and rule the country.

• Personification

• Motif

• Metonymy

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

These new threads came from H&M.

• Antithesis

• Litotes

• Paradox

• Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Anaphora

• Chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Oh! Stars and cold and winds, ye are all about to mock me!

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Abosolute

• Both apostrophe and absolute

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage.

• Antithesis

• Chiasmus

• Paradox

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

It was certainly not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

• Chiasmus

• Invective

• Didactic

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

...he was always greedy, though what he grasps with one hand, he flings away with the other.

• polysyndeton

• anaphora

• chiasmus

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

• Chaismus

• Litotes

• Synecdoche

• Polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5