Literary Devices

"So long a road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!" (Rand 54).

Giving things, ideas, or animals human attributes.

"Tomorrow you will take us back into the fold. . . Tomorrow we will be one of you again. Tomorrow. . ." (Rand 67).

"He took the light of the gods and he brought it to men. . . His name was Prometheus.

A comparison of two things that are unalike USING like or as.

A struggle between two opposing forces in a story.

A reference to a person, place or thing that has cultural, historical or literary significance.

The key idea in a story that reveals universal truths.

When an author gives a hint about something that might happen in the future.

"Only the glass box in our arms is like a living heart that gives us strength" (Rand 76).

A repetition of a word, phrase, or event to convey a unifying theme.

The attitude a writer uses toward a subject or audience.

The feeling or emotion the reader feels while reading a text.

"We felt the cords of our neck grow tight. . . and we were happy" (Rand 26).

"Before us, on a broad summit, with the mountains rising behind it, stood a house such as we had never seen" (Rand 89).

Our name is Equality 7-2521. . . We are twenty-one years old. We are six feet tall" (Rand 18).

"Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me" (Rand 95).

An object that represents itself as well as a deeper, more significant meaning.

"How dared you, gutter cleaner to hold yourself as one alone and with thoughts of the one and not the many?" (Rand 72).

A comparison of two things that are unalike NOT using like or as.