Literary Devices: HTRLLAP Examples

“The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long.”

• Imagery

• Juxtaposition

• Personification

• Frame Tale

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

“Busy old fool, unruly sun–”

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Paradox

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

 The broken windshield  in Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff

• Imagery

• Juxtaposition

• Situational Irony

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“Then leaf subsides to leaf./ So Eden sank to grief,/ So dawn goes down to day./ Nothing gold can stay."

• Frame Tale

• Allusion

• Situational Irony

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

 A fire station burning down

• Juxtaposition

• Symbolism

• Situational Irony

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

“Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it”

• Situational Irony

• Paradox

• Personification

• Frame Tale

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

• Juxtaposition

• Allusion

• Paradox

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“My instep arch not only keeps the ache,/ It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round./ I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.”

• Allusion

• Personification

• Imagery

• Situational Irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

“Much Madness is divinest Sense–/ To a discerning Eye–/ Much Sense– the starkest Madness–/ ‘Tis the Majority”

• Allusion

• Personification

• Paradox

• Situational Irony

Mattie’s red scarf in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

• Imagery

• Symbolism

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5