Literary Devices

Alliteration

 

1  West, It’s me! It’s Wally, White-assWally!

 

2 Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

 

3 Sally seems to sit somewhere separate from her sister

 

Allusion

 

1 Her laughter is the soundtrack to my favorite nights

 

2 He’s a real Romeo with the ladies

 

3 Since we were young, she has always been my Achilles heel

 

Amplification

 

1 She was so beautiful. Everyone, just everyone thought she was beautiful. She would literally turn heads walking into any room or down any street. Even complete strangers would belt out to her how beautiful the heavens created her.

 

2 After fasting for 3 days straight, I started to imagine cheeseburgers in random places and mountains of ice cream forming clouds in the sky.

 

3 Rudolph the red nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. Some would even say it glows.

 

Antithesis

 

1 Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing

 

2 Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit

 

3 Everybody doesn’t like something, but nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee

 

Anthropomorphism

 

1 Mickey Mouse

 

2 Winnie the Pooh

 

3 Teenage Mutant Turtles

 

 

 

Anaphora

 

1 MLK’s “I have a Dream” Speech

 

2 My life is my purpose, my life is my goal, My life is my inspiration.

 

3 Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better

Sophia Hernandez
sophia_hernandez@miamiadschool.net