Literary Devices U2 - Assessment

Life is much too important to be taken seriously.

• Anaphora

• Juxtaposition

• Paradox

• Syllogism

The buzzing bees bumbled by the blooming blossoms.

• Alliteration

• Pun

• Ekphrasis

• Hyperbaton

We'll be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up together.

• Syllogism

• Hyperbaton

• Anaphora

• Ellipsis

I can resist anything, except temptation.

• Ellipsis

• Paradox

• Juxtaposition

• Syllogism

In that painting her eyes sparkled like stars, her smile was a burst of sunshine, and the world glowed around her.

• Pun

• Foil

• Ekphrasis

• Syllogism

I wanted to talk to you but... never mind, we’ll do it later

• Ellipsis

• Juxtaposition

• Ekphrasis

• Syllogism

The play was wild, the action crazy, and yet, calm prevailed.

• Foil

• Juxtaposition

• Paradox

• Anaphora

In Toy Story, Woody is centered and emotional and Buzz is a problem solver rarely exhibiting emotion

• Juxtaposition

• Foil

• Paradox

• Syllogism

All books from that store are new, these books are new so they must come from that store.

• Juxtaposition

• Ellipsis

• Syllogism

• Hyperbaton

Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.

• Ellipsis

• Foil

• Pun

• Paradox