LITERARY DEVICES - NEW #2 (UP TO RHYTHM)

“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”

The wind whispered secrets through the cracks in the windowpane.

"Nevermore," the raven croaked again, as if the word itself were a curse upon the room.

Her voice was music to his ears, calming and rich with harmony.

“He had the Midas touch—everything he invested in turned to gold.”

The narrator knew every thought, every fear, and every dream of all the characters.

John Donne compares two lovers to the legs of a compass—strange, extended but intricately linked.

“I must be cruel to be kind,” says Hamlet.

While arguing with his old friend, he suddenly realized he had been the one at fault all along.

In the poem, the speaker is a jaded soldier suffering from PTSD.

In the opening of A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...”

In the final act of the play, the villain discovers that the child he tried to destroy is actually his own daughter.

He conquered empires, crossed oceans, and stubbed his toe on a pebble.

After tripping over his own shoelaces in front of the entire class, he stood up and said, “Well, that was graceful.”

The professional locksmith got locked out of his own house and had to break in through a window.