24 Jul Literary Devices

Assonance

• I didn’t think the kid would be big.
• Bickering about the licking of a stick of cool whip.
• Steel yourselves for the meat of the green tree’s leaves.

Chiasmus

• The problem is not how I will take the position, but rather how the position will take me.
• America is not the blood of the people, for it is the people that are the blood of America.
• Don’t run from your problems, work until your problems run from you.

Circumlocution

• It has been determined that another candidate is better equipped for this job.
• I may have gotten hungry earlier and found your doughnuts.
• We may or may not have decided it would be best to go our separate ways.

Consonance

• Dudes desire deliciously decadent dairy dishes.
• Cats can’t come closer to cars than carrion.
• For thick things that thaw thoroughly, I am thankful.

Epithet

• They call me the maestro of milkshakes because I’m really good at making milkshakes.
• He vowed not to leave the game until he had earned the title of “ball god”.
• Maybe if you bathed occasionally, people wouldn’t call you the human dumpster.

Euphemism

• She said she wants me to take a walk through her secret garden.
• He’s gone now, looking down from that big bayside property in the sky.

It’s been a hell of a dry run man, I’ve got to go appease the dragon.