Literary Devices

1. it is a part that stands for the whole.

It is assigning traditional human attributes to nonhuman things

1. It refers to identical or similar concluding syllables in different words are repeated.

It is the comparison of two unlike things with the use of the connectors like and as

It makes reference to two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds.

It is a deliberate exaggeration for emphasis.

1. A work exists between and among other texts,

through its relations to them. How do you call it?

It is a concise statement of a general truth or principle.

It is an exact comparison between two unrelated things used for dramatic or poetic effect. It has two parts: the tenor (the object that is described) and a vehicle (the object that is compared to).

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. (Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter)