Literary Devices

My love is like a red, red rose.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Snow speaks to the people; it’s falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

The baby was as snug as a bug in a rug.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

In the film and book Charlotte’s Web, Charlotte explains to Wilbur that all living things eventually die. Charlotte then has to spin a web to save Wilbur’s life. In the process of spinning her web, Charlotte expends all her energy and dies.

• Allusion & Imagery
• Simile & Metaphor
• Foreshadowing & Irony
• Personification & Mood

You break a date with your girlfriend so you can go to the ball game with the guys. When you go to the concession stand, you run into your girl, who is with another guy.

• Personification
• Imagery
• Foreshadowing
• Irony

In Lemony Snicket, most of the inhabitants of the island on which the Baudelaires find themselves in The End are characters from The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Joe’s boots broke the forest’s silence. A full moon peeked out from behind two clouds. Tree shadows illuminated the snow drifts in its shimmering light. Joe shivered as a cold gust of wind blew through his jacket.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery
• Irony

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Joe’s boots broke the forest’s silence. A full moon peeked out from behind two clouds. Tree shadows illuminated the snow drifts in its shimmering light. Joe shivered as a cold gust of wind blew through his jacket.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery
• Irony

“But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”
  -William Sharp

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Irony