Literary Devices

1) "Words are bullets, and should be used sparingly, aimed toward a target."
-Dick Hallock
This sentence shows an example of a metaphor. It is a metaphor because it compares two different things, words and bullets, without using like or as stating how piercing words can be, just like bullets.

2) "I am the bread of life."
-Jesus
This sentence shows another example of a metaphor. Jesus says in this that he is the bread in life that feeds which isn't meant literally, so therefore it is a metaphor.

3) "All the world's a stage."
-Shakespeare
This is also a metaphor. Shakespeare meant that everyone performs in life, so its like everyone is on stage, but not literally.

4) "The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!"
-Homer Simpson in The Simpsons
This is an example of personification. It suggests that gambling is in fact alive that enslaves people because of how addicting it is. It gives it human-like abilities.

5) "Because I could not stop for Death--
He kindly stopped for me--
The Carriage held but just Ourselves--
And Immortality."
-Emily Dickinson, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
This brief poem shows an example of personification. It says that death stopped for her, giving an inanimate object human abilities.

6) "'Ah, William, we're weary of weather,'said the sunflowers, shining with dew."
-William Blake, Two Sunflowers Move In The Yellow Room
This line from the poem shows an example of personification. In this line, the sunflowers are talking, which they obviously cannot really do.

7) "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
-Carl Sandburg
This quote includes an example of a simile. It is comparing life and an onion using the word "like."

8) "It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog"
-The Beatles
This quote is an example of a simile. It is comparing that he was working as hard as a dog using the word "like" to connect the two.

9) "Yellow butterflies flickered along the shade like flecks of sun"
-William Faulkner
This quote is an example of a simile. It compares the yellow butterflies to the yellow sun rays using the word "like" to compare the two.

10) “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz… Oh what a relief it is”
-Alka Seltzer's jingle
This quote is using an example of onomatopoeia. It uses the words "plop" and "fizz" to describe the sound the Alka Seltzer makes when it hits the water.