Literary Devices-1

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom

"If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. " Rumi

"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes..."

Alliteration is a literary device that reflects repetition in two or more nearby words of initial vowel sounds

Which one is an imagery?

Think and wonder, wonder and think (Dr. Seuss)is an anaphora

"The children were screaming and shouting in the fields." is an anaphora

Hold fast to dreams,for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

"The familiar tang of his grandmother's cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth."What kind of imagery is this?

“We came, we saw, we conquered.” is ...