24 Jul Literary devices – Week 4

1. Assonance
   – My friend looks like a raging sage free from his cage
   – They yelled “fresh meat” as they beat him off his seat
   – They fought before they heard the shot
2. Chiasmus
   – choose to fight for a living, or choose to live for fighting
   – Break the bank, or watch the bank break you
   – I was mad driving because she was driving me mad
   – They were standing over the plot lost, realizing moments later they had lost the plot
3. Circumlocution 
   – The vehicle that tries to move me around every day has this habit of breaking down
   – During the previous year, we made a solemn promise to keep this company afloat
   – The killer used a mundane everyday tool used for cutting paper and hair, to subdue his first three victims. We call him Alex scissor hands.
4. Consonance 
   – The wise widow was branded as the vile witch from Winchester
   – The children scattered after they littered the batter all over the mattress
   – After bumping into the post he boasts, he sees ghosts
5. Epithet
   – The sultry somber summer night was everything but perfect
   – The muck on his shoe was, in fact, gooey green duck poo
   – On a slow Sunday sunset, the fisherman accidentally threw his wife’s soft satin scarlet fishnets into the water.
6. Euphemism
   – To quell the situation teacher told the flat-earther that she had an interesting point of view.
   – This was the fifth time in one day that Bond was asked to neutralize a subject.
   – Fortunately, the miner passed away before he would have been let go.