Lang Devices Review

Wall Street is watching Tokyo this evening to see if this week's dip in the futures will bottom out.

• Synedoche

• Metonymy

• Alliteration

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off (the) shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

• Allusions

• Rhetorical Questions

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

You're the sun, you've never seen the night
But you hear its song from the morning birds

• Simlie

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Meiosis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The peculiar institution of the South--that, on the maintenance of which the very existence of the slaveholding States depends, is pronounced to be sinful and odious, in the sight of God and man.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• hypophora

• meiosis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Thou wast not made for death, immortal Bird!

• personification

• apostrophe

• analogy

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

• imperative

• declarative

• oxymoron

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

I've got the eye of the tiger, louder than a lion, and you're going to hear me roar

• personification

• zoomorphism

• similie

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I must be cruel, only to be kind

• pun

• analogy

• simile

• paradox

His brains got him through college but the military wasn't so easy for him.

• synecdeoche

• metonymy

• allusion

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

• "He took his coat and his vacation"

• ellipses

• pathetic fallacy

• zeugma

• anastrophe