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| 5604928350 | Point of View | Online Example: "I felt like I was getting drowned with shame and disgrace." literarydevices.net My Example: All you have to do is win the race and then you will receive a trophy. | 0 | |
| 5604928351 | Prose | Online Example: "The woods look lovely against the setting darkness and as I gaze into the mysterious depths of the forest, I feel like lingering here longer. However, I have pending appointments to keep and much distance to cover before I settle in for the night or else I will be late for all of them." literarydevices.net My Example: This form of writing is common and is the way most people think and write. | 1 | |
| 5604930358 | Realism | Online Example: War and Peace shmoop.com My Example: Of Mice and Men | 2 | |
| 5604930359 | Rebuttal | Online Example: "For we were born of change. We broke the old aristocracies, declaring ourselves entitled not by bloodline, but endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. We secure our rights and responsibilities through a system of self-government, of and by and for the people. That's why we argue and fight with so much passion and conviction, because we know our efforts matter. We know America is what we make of it." literarydevices.net My Example: | 3 | |
| 5604930360 | Rhetoric | Online Example: All blonde-haired people are dumb. literarydevices.net My Example: | 4 | |
| 5604932390 | Rhetorical Question | Online Example: "Who knows?" literarydevices.net My Example: | 5 | |
| 5604934236 | Sarcasm | Online Example: "Friends, countrymen, lend me your ears." (Julius Caesar by Shakespeare) literarydevices.net My Example: | 6 | |
| 5604934237 | Satire | Online Example: "If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." literarydevices.net My Example: | 7 | |
| 5604936066 | Simile | Online Example: Our soldiers are as brave as lions. literarydevices.net My Example: I'm as hungry as a horse | 8 | |
| 5604936067 | Style | Online Example: "The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden... The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through... or circling with monotonous insistence..." (descriptive) literarydevices.net My Example: | 9 | |
| 5604939046 | Symbolism | Online Example: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts," (From Shakespeare's play, "As You Like It") literarydevices.net My Example: Animal Farm, the pigs represent greedy people | 10 | |
| 5604939047 | Synecdoche | Online Example: The word "glasses" refers to spectacles. literarydevices.net My Example: Ben Franklins | 11 | |
| 5604940966 | Syntax | Online Example: "What light from yonder window breaks?" instead of using a common expression "What light breaks from yonder window?" (From "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare) literarydevices.net My Example: | 12 | |
| 5604940967 | Theme | Online Example: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen about love and friendship literarydevices.net My Example: Children of the Corn by Stephen King is a horror book | 13 | |
| 5604940968 | Tone | 14 | ||
| 5604942979 | Voice | 15 | ||
| 5604943560 | Zeugma | 16 |
