RECOGNITION OF LITERARY
DEVICES: -KEY
Label the
literary devices employed below. Some may be used more that one. Some quotes
contain two. Possibilities include: metaphor,
simile, personification, foreshadowing, paradox, hyperbole, juxtaposition
“I look at you all, see the
love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps.” -George Harrison
While my guitar gently weeps.” -George Harrison
1. __personification
“So it’s gunna be forever, or it’s gonna go down in flames… cause you know I love
the players, and you love the game.” -Taylor Swift
2. _____foreshadowing
3. ______metaphor
4. ______hyperbole
(Also juxtaposition works
in the first line.)
“Fred left the house at eleven o'clock to meet his
father for lunch at Brown's. Officially, they were just 'catching up', but they
both knew Fred needed money again - and
not such a small amount this time, either.”
5. _____foreshadowing
“We must hurry. I got a feeling this whole
thing’s gunna come apart like wet
bread.”
-Natalie Babbitt
6.______simile
7. ______foreshadowing
“Before us the
narrow, sun-splotched road wound like a
lazy red serpent dividing the high forest bank of quiet, old trees.”
Mildred D. Taylor
8. ______Simile
“Here it is a Saturday morning, and they’re
quiet as church mice.”
Mildred
D. Taylor
9.
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“Betrayals in
war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace. New lovers are
nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire.”
-The English Patient
10. _____metaphor
“The pistol
glared at me in its holster.”
11.______personification
“What a pity
that youth must be wasted on the young.” - George Bernard Shaw
12. _____paradox
“It was snowing.
It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory is white as Lapland,
though there are no reindeers.” – Dylan Thomas
13. _____ simile
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas
14. _____metaphor
“And they rang their tidings over the bandaged
town, over the frozen foam of the powder and ice-cream hills, over the
crackling sea.” –Dylan Thomas
15. _____metaphor
"O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die."
This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die."
Romeo and Juliet (V, iii,
169-170)
16. _____personification
