Literary Devices

I had to wait in the station for ten days—an eternity.

“I’m getting married in the morning! Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.”

A white cowboy hat = hero in classic Westerns

All the world's a stage.

She smiles like a Chesire cat.

The population of Ireland is always Dublin.

With tin whistles, mouth-organs, any noise/They pipe the way to glory and the grave

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.

Dramatic Irony depends on the reader's understanding of the disparity of what should happen and what actually happens.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The grass is always greener on the other side.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom ... it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.

"At times, I think I may have never fully gotten over the death of my parents ..."

The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.

The world is but a canvas to our imaginations.