Literary Non-Fiction Devices

He took a much-needed vacation, in the mountains. Unfortunately, he came back dead tired.

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

At the start of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway quotes G. Stein: "You are all a lost generation."

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee quotes C. Lamb:"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once."

“I can resist anything but temptation.” – Oscar Wilde

"It’s meeting the man of my dreams/And then meeting his beautiful wife…"

The glow of the tube-light was as bright as sunshine.