Personification
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Paradox
Apostrophe
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
“He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.”
"Even death did not mar its grace, for it lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers, and we stood around it, awed by its exotic beauty."
“Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine, marking the green one red.”
“War is Peace”; “Freedom is Slavery”; “Ignorance is Strength.”
“Is this a dagger which I see before me
The dagger toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”
“Hear the loud alarum bells,
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune…
How they clang, and clash, and roar!”
“Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show
Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st.”
“It was a rimy morning, and very dam. I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass, like a coarser sort of spiders’ webs: hanging itself from twig to twig and blade to blade.”
“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night,
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear.”
“And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”
Figurative Language
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