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“Can I kiss you?” what literary term is this
What literary device is ” gold is the world”
is ‘spirited away’ an idiom
Analyze the stylistic value of the literary devices in the poem:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
“come take my life and my soul when I’m not eve old”
what literary device is being used in this sentence?
What is zoomorphism and an example of it?
Plastic smiles she flaunts as nothing no longer feels the same
Resting in peace, taking a dirt nap; toes turned upside down.
The one who always stood up for her is no longer standing.
Death possessed a key for their home; which unlocked the master bedroom.
Tears have dried up like the Grand Canyon
Memories keep repeating through her dreams,
All she ponders is the way this could’ve been forestalled.
Was it her issue? Would she be able to have recently brought the transport back home that
day?
Did that drunkard truly need to get behind the wheels?
Yet, that is Death’s usual methodology,
It respects no man. Even those whose hearts are as clean as a whistle.
This made her contemplate about the afterlife.
Will daddy rest soundly around evening time without his fortunate cushion?
How will mum take this?
Their relationship was never a walk in the park, however not generally so
horrifying as that accident scene.
Her gloomy eyes filled with tears, that fell from her wrinkled face,
was unbearable to watch as she clinched her weary hands together.
She blinked once. She blinked twice
And just like that, death unlocked their home again.
There was never a third blink from her eyes.
Death comes in threes! Death struck again.
Death is the crown of all stealers!
This thief tactlessly took them!
Was she to change the locks on her door?
Was her door next to be opened?
Can you find metaphor, simile, personification, metonymy, apostrophe, three types of imagery, alliteration, symbol, shift and connotation.
Is “all i do is fall to my knees, felled by the words that could deliver such a knockout blow,” personification?
what literary device is “the sky opens now, crumbling apart”?
I thought hyperbole, but I’m not sure
‘You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.’ What literary device is being used?
What literary device is this “ Smells of chocolate, cinnamon, and brown sugar filled the corner bakery. ”
What literary devices are the following;
#1.”That the dirt in which it wallows comfortably is to be preferred”.
#2.” It’s delights had diminished in my eyes”.
#3.” Flowing lazily between the stems and roots of giant areas”.
#4.” And did the people need anyone to feed them”.
#5.” Progress” to move like a baby.
1. Desert rivers
2. Waters mightier than voltage
3. Lie hid from glare of sun
4. How silly man laughs the rose
5. He was cold and stiff
What literary device are they? Thanks
in a world that wants us to whisper, I choose to yell What kind of rhetorical devices is used?
Is ‘sleep without wake’ an oxymoron?
Paradox
The wagging tail in dog farm
what device is used?
“Eddie whacked the rail so hard with his cane almost snapped it in two. “MOVE IT!” The teens ran away”(Albom 8).
What literary device is this?
“He opens his mouth, but words won’t come out”
What literary device is being used?
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Euphemism
Alliteration
Allusion
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
synecdoche
Also correct: Paradox (But you have to understand/clearly explain how it is a paradox
metaphor
Personification
Personification
Myth
What figure if speech is “her heart sank”
Consonance
Personification
Assonance
personification
Allitration
Idiom
Hyperbole
Paradox
Personification
Euphemism
Allitration
what literary device is “doesn’t light a candle to” ?
respond below please
Euphemism
anagram
Tell me what literary term this is explain it good and how you know
“I heard him whine a little at the end of his plea. But then, maybe it was just the wind.”
Onomatopoeia
What literary device is never must it come into contact with the earth
Anastrophe – where the writer reverses traditional sentence structure. Subject, Adjective becomes Adjective, Subject- using the adjective before the subject. Basically the way Yoda talks.
Eg;
“powerful, you have become”
What’s the literary device in, “Words as auspicious, puzzling, portentous looking back”
Personification
What are the literary divice of singing in a novel still born
emotive language
what type of figure language is he ate too much over the holidays, so he to quit cold cold turkey.
also
what type of figure language is the which if you with patient ears attend/ what hear shall miss our toil shall strive to mend
Repetition
Simile
The stars were a blanket over the earth.
I needa find out what literary device is used in this
Metaphor.
Hyperbole
simile
NOt a simily, because the comparison is implicit
Metaphor
Metaphor
Personification
what’s it called when someone makes a promise/ swears something to be true, “I’m serious” or “It’s the truth”
Orcos?
Alliteration
I’ve heard jokes about authors using a phrase like “and in the distance, a dog barked” to cap off a profound paragraph (or even a not-so profound one). Recently I read a novel by a first-time author who actually used that phrase along with many other similar ones throughout the story (one was something like “and a turtle scuttled under a bush”). It was as though she needed these to punctuate what had just been spoken (or thought) but why? Does the use of such off-the-subject comments fall under one of the literary devices? And what is the purpose?
What literary devices does “carelessness, or carefulness” represent and what does that tell us
synonyms, because synonyms= words with similar meanings!!
They gush into bowels of seas
The very hairs of your head are numbered
Hyperbole
It’s a rhyme because of the pronounciation
Is ‘writing his thoughts in a dusty bunker’ imagery?
Yes, you just might need to define what his thoughts were.
Yes,it is used here as an imagery as the writer is making us to create a visual that there was a dusky bunker where the writer was writing his thoughts.
yes!!
Please what literary device is used here:
Loud Silence
A wave of fright swept over me
Oxymoron and personification
thank you my love i love you so much thanks you
Oxymoron
Oxymoron
Personification
What literary device is ‘very quietly ‘
Hyperbole, Personification and Oxymoron
Oxymoron and personification
Metaphor
What literary device is used here: That’s the way it goes. When our finger hurts, it makes the rest of the body hurt too.
Identify the literary device below.
Something was wrong inside me, and its location was murky, like the origins of the Hmong home long, long ago and far, far away.
Assonance and Alliteration.
THE DUST is thick along the road;
The fields are scorching in the sun;
My wife has ever a bitter word
To greet me when the day is done.
The neighbors rest beside the gate
But half their words are high and shrill.
My son is over-young to help;
The fields are very hard to till.
But in the dusk I raise my eyes—
The poet’s words come back to me:
“In the moon there is a white jade gate
Shadowed cool by a cassia tree.”
i need to find 3 poetic devices.
enjambment, alliteration, assonance
also, there is poetic verse with the rhymes with “sun” – “done”, “shrill”-“till”, “me”-“tree”
He was having the time of his life,what literary device is used in this expression?
Metaphor
What literary device is used in the expression, “Butterflies fill my stomach”?
allusion
Metaphor
What literary device is this:” The Nile that this voice from the dead was singing about, ran in Nadia’s veins”
Personification
Agonized writing.
What literary device is this expression native boy
what literacy device is this ¨If my name was a color I would want it to be like a light nice green.¨
it could be metaphor
what is ” now i cant even tell whos trying to give me a complement”
What literary device is this: “You will be the young angels of
our revolution, you will rescue mankind”?
Is it a hyperbole? or something else
I believe it’s metaphor.
It depends on the context but i think is is a methaphor because the author is comparing the people to young angels.
is this a literary device?
I am who I am.
yep I think of repetition
It can’t be repetition
I guess it is Repitition
what literary device is run their unwitnessed course to their unwitnessed end
Repetition
I think there is alliteration in it:to their unwitnessed end. “to their” is repetition of consonant sounds they both start with “t”
What literary device is used in this sentence (these deeds must not be thought…..so it will make us mad.)
(1)metaphor
(2)irony
(3)chiasmus
(4)Fore shadowing
Irony
what literacy device is contained in this expression “her heart sank”
“her heart” is an alliteration but “her heart sank” is therefore a metaphor
personification
Personification
what literary device is “he is so handsome”
What literary device is used in this sentence?
“The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light”
A) Irony
B) Onomatopeiea
C) Personification
D)Simile
C) Personification
personification
Personification
these are some sentences that I have and need to know what Literary Device it is
(#1) “The earth was broken. Too much taking for too damn long, so she finally broke”
(#2) “Isaac didn’t have grandparents who’d told residential school stories like campfire
tales to scare you into acting right, stories about men and women who promised
themselves to God only and then took whatever they wanted from the children,
especially at night”
(#3) “Stories about a book that was like a vacuum, used to suck the language right
out of your lungs. And I didn’t have time to share them, not now”
(#4). “Outside the sky was full of lights, blue and red reflecting off the clouds and the
trees and the sides of our cottage
(#1) “The earth was broken:Personification.Too much taking for too damn long, so she:alliteration
(#2) “Isaac didn’t have grandparents who’d told residential school stories:alliteration “school stories”repitition of consonant sounds. like campfire
tales to scare you into acting right, stories about men and women who promised
themselves to God only and then took:alliteration”then took”repitition of consonant sounds. whatever they wanted from the children,
especially at night”
(#3) “Stories about a book that was like a vacuum:I think it is simile because of the like. used to suck the language right
out of your lungs. And I didn’t have time to share them, not now”:alliteration “not now” repetition of consonant sounds
(#4). “Outside the sky was full of lights, blue and red reflecting off the clouds and the
trees:alliteration “the trees”repitition of consonant sounds. and the sides of our cottage
What literally device is He is so beautiful?
don’t know, it is not a literary device. It is a simple sentence
There is no literally device used in this sentence.
It is just a simple sentence
What literary device is “I feel like I’m drowning” ?
simile
hyperbole
What literary device is
“sandstones turned to hill gravel, then mountain rock”
Please what is the literary device for:Wheezing and gasping
aural images
Onomatopeia
What literary device is this:
The compromise was compromised.
repetition
what literary device is tied to physical collection of building
What literary device is “last straw”?
Idiom
what literary device is “turned a blind eye”?
idiom
yes
Alliteration
what literary device would “be a free man” and “in our world” be?
what device is this:
The whiskey on your breath
That is a metaphor. The only difference between a metaphor and a simile is the absence of like or as.
Yes
yes
yes yes
what literary device is this:
To create a cauldron of noise, colour and atmosphere.
Imagery
metaphor. There is no cauldron literally.
what literally device is this
“Let go of me before i kill you”
I think that this is a hyperbole because it is big over exaggeration.
What device is ‘silent delight’
I think it’s oxymoron.
No, an oxymoron is something like: Jumbo Shrimp
What device would this be ‘pour sleep’?
what literary device is used in this sentence?
“From a gruff and husky whisper to a papery, plaintive bleat”
Metaphor
Alliteration
alliteration
metaphor
cause once upon a time you were my everything, what literary technique is this?
Hyperbole
My arm is a weapon- What literary device would this be?
metaphor – it compares two objects without “as” or “like”
Metaphor
Metaphor
Would I should have quit you long time ago fit in any literary devices?
No
“she was the friend of my heart” – what literary device is this?
personification
Personification
is “calling to god” a hyperbole?
no
help what kind of literal is this
“That must go to a man’s head.”
Transferred epithet
I need help
What literacy devices can you used for ” my smiles are just as fakes as my hope ?”
Simlie
simile because it is the comparison between two unlike things
imagery
Simile
HER HEART SANK IS IT A METAPHOR
i thought you said my simile was as fake as my hope lol!
It is considered simile. There is a comparison between how your smiles are and how your hope is. it also makes use of the word ‘as’.
What literary device can be used for”they unlock each sound separately
What would “the contours of his face tightened” be as a literary Device be
i can resist anything but temptation
paradox
Oxymoron
Do you not wish to be president. What literary devices?
Rhetorical question
what literary device are dreams flushed to glow
the literary divice is personification
I need help
What type of literally device is this please urgently
“The sun, grinning like an idiot”
Personification is used
What device is “wind of promise”
i think it is a pardox
which literary device is used for two words that are opposite in meaning like dessert rivers.
oxymoron
Oxymoron
ture one
There is a specific name for this literary device and I cannot recall it. It was coined by an author… it is not “irony” or “foreshadowing.”
It is the term to describe the event when a person carelessly speaks a hard truth without comprehending the weight of their own words. It is often prophetic. For instance…
In Star Wars Episode Two, Obiwan Kanobi says of Anakin Skywalker “That boy will be the death of me.”
In History Of The World part one, The Count DeMonet explains to Mel Brooks that he will will impersonate the king and go to the gallows in his place. Brooks says “Oh, I get it.”
is their a literary technique being used in the following statement..
“Granddad was drunk on his own power”
Is the statement
“You often get different accounts of the same thing” a Paradox?
what literary term is used in the extract below;
”deserts too have their rivers”
What type of literary device is the following statements:
“Trouble has toned down the vulgarity”
“trouble has done her good”
is it anaphora?
what literary device is used in
never must it come into contact with the earth
What literary devices are in “I only have one heart and I’m saving it.”
what kind of figurative language is this “The wind sang softly to the trees at dusk. We knew we had to get home.” What figurative term is being used here?
personification
personification
..Her heart sank, what literary device is this?
Out of your comfortable basin and back into this madhouse!”
what literarry/stylistic device is this?
personification
What is the literary device in the following expressions,
“Lie hid from the glare of sun.”
“Without a sound,they gush into bowels of seas.”
“Far,far away from unaided human eyes.”
The lines are from Desert Rivers by Lade Worsonu.
“I do beseech you that by your virtuous means i may again exist, and be member of his love whom I, with all the office of my heart Entirely honor. I would not be delayed. (Act 3, scene 4 Line 105-114)
What literary device is being used here?
What doe this mean “The wind sang softly to the trees at dusk. We knew we had to get home.”
Which device does gold-geared fall under
Heaving mountain in the sea,
Whale, I hear you
Grieving.
What literary device is “Heaving mountain”?
what literary device is- He let his voice trail away
Diction
what kind of literary device is “If you want love, you gon’ have to go through the pain.”
It’s paradox.
which literary device is this
“He was almost a stranger in town”
“Hate and I shook hands, and I said I was sorry” what is the literary meaning for that?
Personification as hate is given the quality of being someone shaking hands
You might have to crawl even after you walk- whats this literary device?
A Style is best defined as the— . What is the answer to this
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
which literary device is this?
I’m helpless down in the count drowning in him. what is the literary device?
“The wind sang softly to the trees at dusk. We knew we had to get home.” What figurative term is being used here? *
personification I believe
It is giving
anthropomorphism
What is it called when a title of a piece is not really what the piece is about, or contradicts the message of the piece? You see this in satire and parody. Here’ s an off the top of my head example. Title: How To Build a Better Mousetrap. And the article is about how you can’t really build a better mousetrap. Is this a literary device?
Thanks for this website, I just discovered it.
It’s irony I believe
Is “arches it’s tiny body” a metaphor or personification?
It is neither if it is small.
If a text has a problem and they provide a solution then they support their solution with solution that have worked in the past, what literary device would this be. Would it be flashback or allusion, or something entirely different.
When she moves, her sari rustles and her bracelets jingle.
What’s is the dominant literary device?
Hmmm. I think the “dominant literary device” might be at the beginning in the reference to her movement. But I can’t think of the name of the device.
Onomatopoeia
autamodapea (or however you spell it)
Can Literary Devices be mixed sometimes? For example: can Hyperbole be mixed with Allegory?
What’s an idiom?
An idiom is a common expression that native speakers of a language use where the words may not tell you the actual meaning. For example “I’m all ears”, does not mean you a made up ears but means you are listening. Or if you say “He quit cold turkey”, it means the person a stopped a habit abruptly not that he no longer eats turkey cold.
An idiom is just a phrase people say where the words are different from the literal meaning. Here is a site that has a list of idioms https://idioms.fyi/
What literary devices are used by modern European literature?
mostly all of them if you know where to look