Literary Techniques

You are my sunshine, sweet child of mine.

• Apostrophe

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

I saw him woo her like from the tales of old.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

Bid me goodbye, oh darkness.

• Apostrophe

• Metonymy

• Personification

• Synecdoche

The still night frowned at me.

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Apostrophe

• Personification

The deafening silence between us is killing me.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

Being abnormal is the new normal.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

Hollywood isn't all glitz and glamour.

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Does the government even consider the hands that feed its constituents?

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Paradox

I wish for Noah's Arc to give me shelter when tribulations come.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tell you what? Your emotional baggage weighs a ton.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Paradox

• Hyperbole