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He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.
Onomatopoeia
The sea was angry that day, my friends – like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
Personification
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Oxymoron
Hansel and Gretel, a Grimm fairy tale: the witch, who intended to eat Hansel ad Gretel, is trapped by the children in her own oven.
Irony
The Cask of Amontillado written by Edgar Allan Poe: the character “Fortunato” meets with a very unfortunate fate.
Irony
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee Greenest state in the land of the free. Raised in the woods so he knew every tree.
Hyperbole
He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee.
Imagery
“We’s safe, Huck, we’s safe! Jump up and crack yo’ heels. Dat’s de good ole Cairo at las’, I jis knows it.”
Dialect
“‘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!’
Colloquial Language
And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died.
Tone
My heart is like a singing bird whose nest is in a water’d shoot.
Simile
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
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
That’s my adult child. Poor thing still can’t get himself into the real adult world.
Oxymoron
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
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
Our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Metaphor
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
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
After dark, stars glisten like ice, and the distance they span Hides something elemental. Not God, exactly.
Enjambment
“Ya’ll nee’n try ter ‘scuse yo’seffs. Ain’ Miss Pitty writ you an’ writ you ter come home?”
Dialect
Death is the mother of Beauty.
Personification
We’ll wait til May when the shade blocks the sun’s rays.
Assonance
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.
Alliteration