Examples Of Literary Devices

Front 1

Alliteration

Back 1

Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August.

Front 2

Allusion

Back 2

“He was a real Romeo with the ladies.”

Front 3

Anaphora

Back 3

"Anaphora will repeat an opening phrase or word;
Anaphora will pour it into a mould (absurd)!
Anaphora will cast each subsequent opening;
Anaphora will last until it's tiring."

Front 4

Anastrophe

Back 4

"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."

Front 5

Asyndeton

Back 5

Fires are burning, horses are snorting, chestnuts are roasting. Children race through a stone maze, others drink hot chocolate.

Front 6

Enjambment

Back 6

I bought some shoes and then I put them on
My feet and took a walk and they felt good.

Front 7

Epistrophe

Back 7

When I was a child, I spoke as a child; I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Front 8

Extended metaphor

Back 8

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all..... etc.

Front 9

Hyperbaton

Back 9

Well, let me remind you Mr. Addison, that one case does not a detective make.

Front 10

Internal Rhyme

Back 10

I had a cat who wore a hat. / He looked cool but felt the fool.

Front 11

Onomatopoeia

Back 11

bloop
splash
spray
sprinkle
squirt
drip
drizzle

Front 12

Simile

Back 12

"as snug as a bug in a rug"