literary device

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

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

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

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Irony

A woman is going to break up with her boyfriend; meanwhile, he’s buying her a diamond ring and planning his marriage proposal.

• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Irony

An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Personification
• Foreshadowing

This quiz is a piece of cake.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe.
   - John Milton

• Simile
• Foreshadowing
• Personification
• Allusion