22 Jul Literary Devices: Assonance, Chiasmus, Circumlocution, Consonance, Epithet & Euphemism

Assonance

1 “Hello darkness, my old friend

I’ve come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence”

The Sounds of Silence // Simon & Garfunkel

2 “Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.”

Fire and Ice // Robert Frost

3 “I love her, I don’t want to lose her

I’m selfish, I know that I use her

My ego get stroked and I bruise her”

Kevin’s Heart // J. Cole

Chiasmus

1 “Live simply so that others might simply live” // Gandhi

2 “All for one and one for all!” // The Three Musketeers

3 “The things you own, end up owning you” // Tyler Durden – Fight Club

Circumlocution

1 “Our Father who art in Heaven”

2 “He-who-must-not-be-named” // Voldemort

3 “You-know-who”

Consonance

1 “Are you asking me to come up with examples of consonance? I’ll seek it out in lyrics and book.”

2 “However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition!” // V For Vendetta

3 “When I find myself in time of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me” Let It Be // The Beatles

Epithet

1 Daddy Long Legs

2 Man’s Best Friend

3 The Rock

Euphemism

1 “My Milkshake brings all the boys to the yard….” // Kelis

2 “I wanna take a ride on your disco stick” // Lady Gaga

3 The Birds and the Bees