Literary Devices Practice - KEY

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

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. ________________________________________________________

“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.

                                                - 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."

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

16. _____personification