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Literary Devices

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    Literary Devices
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  • When you analyze the message/theme of a piece of art, you analyze...
    Meaning
  •  15
  • When think about your emotions and how the poem/book relates to you, you're analzyng
    Effect
  •  20
  • Rhyme scheme, number of stanzas and verses involves analyzing the ...
    Structure
  •  15
  • 'Cause karma is my boyfriend Karma is a god Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend Karma's a relaxing thought Aren't you envious that for you it's not?
    Anaphora/Repetition/Metaphor/Extended Metaphor
  •  25
  • From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes I waited ages to see you there
    Alliteration/Consonance/Hyperbole
  •  20
  • In Love story, what is the biggest literary device: ‘that you were Romeo, you were throwing Pebbles And my Daddy Said ‘ stay away from Juliet’?
    Allusion/metaphor
  •  20
  • Lit device: "I never heard silence quite this loud"
    Juxtaposition/oxymoron
  •  20
  • I laid the groundwork and then, just like clockwork The dominoes cascaded in a line
    Simile
  •  15
  • Lit device: “Time, mystical time. Cutting me open, then healing me fine”
    Personification
  •  15
  • Lit device: "Break up, break free, break through, break down You would break your back to make me break a smile"
    Antanaclasis/Repetition
  •  25
  • 'Cause he was sunshine I was midnight rain He wanted it comfortable I wanted that pain He wanted a bride I was making my own name Chasing that fame He stayed the same All of me changed Like midnight
    Juxtaposition/Parallelism/repetition
  •  20
  • You drew stars around my scars But now I'm bleedin'
    Imagery / Metaphor / Alliteration / Consonance
  •  25