LITERARY DEVICES

The stars will cry

The blackest tears tonight

And this I the moment that I live for

I can smell the ocean air

Pouring my heart onto these rooftops

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Right from the start

     You were a thief

     You stole my heart

     And I your willing victim

     I let you see the parts of me

     That weren’t all that pretty

            And with every touch you fixed them.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• imagery

I have died everyday waiting for you

    Darling don’t be afraid I have loved you

    For a thousand years

    I’ll love you for a thousand more.

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• mataphor

“His words felt like a dagger in my heart.” What literary device is used in this line?

• imagery

• assonance

• alliteration

• tone

What literary device is used in William Shakespeare's poem "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

"Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely breach'd his boiling bloody breast."

• alliteration

• assonance

• accreditation

• simile

What literary device is used in William Wordsworth's poem "Daffodils"?

“A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

• alliteration

• assonance

• accreditation

• simile

What figurative language is used in John Milton's classic poem "Paradise Lost"?

“Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe.”

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• allegory

This refers to the attitude a writer takes toward the subject or audience of the poem.

• emotion

• attitude

• tone

• feelings

It is more like showing versus telling in writing, where you use more sensory language.

• imagery

• photos

• creativity

• sense

A device that uses words in non-literal ways but still manages to be meaningful.

• figurative language

• literary device

• stylistic device

• content device