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The Definitive Guide to Literary Devices
Welcome to the wondrous world of literary devices! Here, we will dive deep into the realm of language and explore the many weapons in a writer’s arsenal. From metaphor to alliteration, personification to hyperbole, we’ve got it all.
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So, put on your thinking caps and grab a cup of coffee (or tea, or hot cocoa, we don’t discriminate), because we’re about to embark on a journey of wit, wordplay, and all things literary. Let’s get punny!
Device Difference
Devices
A Simile for Me, Please 🙏🏽
Accumulation
Acrostic
Action
Active Voice
Ad Hominem
Adage
Adventure
Adynaton
Allegory You Say. What ‘s That? ⚧
Allusion: Wow! That Really Takes Me Back
Alter Ego
Ambiguity
Amplification
Anachronism
Anacoluthon
Anadiplosis
Anagnorisis
Anagram: The Art of Rearrangement
Analogy – The Informational Comparison
Literature Analysis
“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
100 Sideways Miles
11/22/63
1919
1984
1Q84
1st to Die
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A Bend in the River
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time
A Child Called “It”
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
A Christmas Carol
A Clash of Kings
A Clockwork Orange
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Movies
12 Angry Men
12 Years a Slave (2013)
1917 (2019)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
8½ (1963)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
A Brighter Summer Day (1960)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Man Escaped (1956)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
A Prophet (2009)
A Separation (2011)
A Short Film About Killing
A Short Film About Love (1988)
A Special Day (1977)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Poem Analysis
1919
38
A Blessing
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
A Fortune for Your Disaster
A History of Bubbles
A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read
A Little Devil in America
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
A Season in Hell
A Song
A Woman Without a Country
Abandoned Farmhouse
After Apple-Picking
Again, Let Me Tell You What I Know About Trust
Against Dying
Air Traffic
Alive at the End of the World
All They Want Is My Money My Pussy My Blood
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Songs
“Help! by The Beatles
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones
1901 by Phoenix
22 by Taylor Swift
A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
A Day in the Life by The Beatles
A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles
A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
Africa by Toto
Afterglow by Taylor Swift
Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers
All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix
All of Me by John Legend
All the Pretty Girls by Kaleo
All Too Well by Taylor Swift
All You Need Is Love by The Beatles
Alone by Bee Gees
Always Like This by Bombay Bicycle Club
American Pie by Don McLean
Anarchy in the U.K. by Sex Pistols