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| 5027748703 | Colloquial | Online Example: - wanna - want to - gonna - going to literarydevices.net My Example: "y'all" vs "youse guys" | 0 | |
| 5027772799 | Conceit | Online Example: "Oh stay! three lives in one flea spare Where we almost, yea more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage-bed and marriage-temple is" (From "The Flea" by John Donne) literarydevices.net My Example: My life is like a broken record, everything seems to be on repeat. | 1 | |
| 5027857070 | Connotation | Online Example: Home suggests family, comfort and security. literarydevices.net My Example: A bed symbolizes relaxation and rejuvenation. | 2 | |
| 5028051613 | Consonance | Online Example: 'T was later when the summer went Than when the cricket came, And yet we knew that gentle clock Meant nought but going home. 'T was sooner when the cricket went Than when the winter came, Yet that pathetic pendulum Keeps esoteric time. (From "Twas Later When The Summer Went" by Emily Dickson) literarydevices.net My Example: Tammy talked to her tailor. | 3 | |
| 5028051614 | Critique | Online Example: In The Guardian, a critic Philip Hope-Wallace has portrayed Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, as "inexplicit and deliberately fatuous." literarydevices.net My Example: In the TV show Gilmore Girls, Rory Gilmore works for the Yale Newspaper. While working for the Newspaper, she writes a column that critiques performances and other activities near Yale. | 4 | |
| 5028054450 | Deductive Reasoning | Online Examples: In mathematics, If A = B and B = C, then A = C. examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: If 1=2 and 2=3, then 1=3. | 5 | |
| 5028054451 | Dialect | Online Example: Jim: "We's safe, Huck, we's safe! Jump up and crack yo' heels. Dat's de good ole Cairo at las', I jis knows it." Huck: "I'll take the canoe and go see, Jim. It mightn't be, you know." (From "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain) literarydevices.net My Example: "Y'all gon be sorry" | 6 | |
| 5028056564 | Diction | Online Example: "Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu." (From "Ode to the Grecian Urn" by Keats) literarydevices.net My Example: "O! speak again, bright angel; for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wond'ring eyes" (From "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare) | 7 | |
| 5028056565 | Didactic | Online Example: John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" literarydevices.net My Example: In the show "The Office," Michael Scott has to give presentations often and they are over the top, but they still manage to instruct his employees. | 8 | |
| 5028058971 | Elegy | Online Example: "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman literarydevices.net My Example: "You're My Star, my Dear" by Alex | 9 | |
| 5028058972 | Epistrophe | Online Example: "The Rebel" by D.J. Enright literarydevices.net My Example: When all the leaves fall, Still for you will I fall. Everyday, deeper I fall, Deeper I fall, In love with you. | 10 | |
| 5028061294 | Epitaph | Online Example: "Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death. Horseman, pass by!" (William Butler Yeats' Epitaph) literarydevices.net My Example: "Our lives were touched by an Angel Jesus. Mary and Joseph. Pray for us." | 11 | |
| 5028061295 | Ethos | Online Example: "Our expertise in roofing contracting is evidenced not only by our 100 years in the business and our staff of qualified technicians, but in the decades of satisfied customers who have come to expect nothing but the best." literarydevices.net My Example: As a certified scuba diver, I can tell you that this is a dangerous yet exhilarating activity. | 12 | |
| 5028097854 | Eulogy | Online Example: "On Mr. Wm. Shakespeare, he died in April 1616" by William Basse literarydevices.net My Example: The Eulogy of Walter Matthau by his son | 13 |
