Review of Literary Devices Allusion He was a

Review of Literary Devices

Allusion • He was a real Romeo with the ladies. • Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel. • I thought the software would be useful, but it was a Trojan Horse. • She turned the other cheek after she was cheated out of a promotion. • It is raining so hard, I hope it doesn’t rain for 40 days and 40 nights. • As soon as he ventured out of his hiding place, it was D-Day and he was not among the one's being liberated. • No thank you, my doctor has me on the Gulag diet.

An allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Metaphor

A metaphor is an expression that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics • Bought the farm. • Kicked the bucket. • Bought the big one. • Is pushing up daisies. • He drowned in a sea of grief. • She is fishing in troubled waters.

Hyperbole

Personification is a form of metaphor, a comparison that does not claim an object or action is "like" another object or action, but that is literally the same object or action, but with the added caveat the object being described is not human, but being described as human.

Alliteration And the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Satire the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices (immoral or wicked behavior). A parody is a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious work.

Irony – situational, dramatic, verbal What kind of irony is represented when actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected?