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The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.
Alliteration
We’ll wait til May when the shade blocks the sun’s rays.
Assonance
Death is the mother of Beauty.
Personification
“Ya’ll nee’n try ter ‘scuse yo’seffs. Ain’ Miss Pitty writ you an’ writ you ter come home?”
Dialect
After dark, stars glisten like ice, and the distance they span Hides something elemental. Not God, exactly.
Enjambment
I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street
Hyperbole
His brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age.
Imagery
Our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Metaphor
Shakespeare’s dramas are the most famous for using this device. Hamlet begins with the main character well-known words “To be, or not to be" reflecting about suicide.
Monologue
How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows.
Onomatopoeia
That’s my adult child. Poor thing still can’t get himself into the real adult world.
Oxymoron
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness.
Repetition
The road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road as gone And I must follow if I can.
Rhyme
My heart is like a singing bird whose nest is in a water’d shoot.
Simile
And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died.
Tone
“‘I don’t understand!’ roared my father, putting his money back in his pocket. ‘Hell, I’ve forgotten more than you or most people will EVER UNDERSTAND!’
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