Literary Devices Practice

Jimmy-Bob's coach exclaimed, "That kid is going to be the next Wayne Gretzky!"

"Fiction is a lie through which we tell the truth." - Albert Camus

"I just looooooove school," complained Jimmy-Bob as he looked at the 21% mark on his math test.

"Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!" - William Shakespeare

"I’ll love you till the oceans are folded and hung up to dry" - W.H. Auden

A horse is a very stable animal.

The curtain of night fell around us.

"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The swish of the leaves./ It dances on the trees." - Jennifer Betts

"My conscience mocked me, picking fights like a petulant child." - Ruta Sepetys

Jimmy-Bob is a total Einstein in Science class.

"'Cause all of me/ Loves all of you/ Love your curves and all your edges/ All your perfect imperfections" - John Legend

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to cure it?

Energetic boisterous children shouted and ran gleefully through the luscious green field.

"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair." - Langston Hughes

"I must be cruel, only to be kind" - William Shakespeare

School is like a jail. The teachers are the guards and the students are the inmates.

"Elderly ladies leaning on their canes listed towards me like leaning towers of Pisa."

In the movie "Mulan", we (the viewer) know Mulan is a girl but the soldiers in the military do not.

Time and tide waits for none

The educationally-challenged boy went to a special school.