Literary Devices Practice

RECOGNITION OF LITERARY DEVICES:

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

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“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

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“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.”

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 “We must hurry. I got a feeling this whole thing’s gunna come apart like wet bread.”

                                                                                                -Natalie Babbitt

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“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

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 “Here it is a Saturday morning, and they’re quiet as church mice.”

                                                                                    Mildred D. Taylor

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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

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“The pistol glared at me in its holster.”

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“What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.”  - George Bernard Shaw

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“It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory is white as Lapland, though there are no reindeers.” – Dylan Thomas

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.

                                                - Dylan Thomas

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“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

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"O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die."

                                           Romeo and Juliet (V, iii, 169-170)

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