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    Stylistic Devices - Worksheet

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    1. This document contains examples of various stylistic devices used in literature, including alliteration, metaphor, pun, paradox, synecdoche, personification, and hyperbole. 2. Examples include "a solitary song that whistled in the wind" using alliteration, "the countess sailed across the room" using metaphor, and "I nearly died laughing" using hyperbole. 3. Several examples make use of multiple devices, such as Robert Burns' poem using anaphora, alliteration, simile, and rhyme.

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    1. This document contains examples of various stylistic devices used in literature, including alliteration, metaphor, pun, paradox, synecdoche, personification, and hyperbole. 2. Examples include "a solitary song that whistled in the wind" using alliteration, "the countess sailed across the room" using metaphor, and "I nearly died laughing" using hyperbole. 3. Several examples make use of multiple devices, such as Robert Burns' poem using anaphora, alliteration, simile, and rhyme.

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    1. This document contains examples of various stylistic devices used in literature, including alliteration, metaphor, pun, paradox, synecdoche, personification, and hyperbole. 2. Examples include "a solitary song that whistled in the wind" using alliteration, "the countess sailed across the room" using metaphor, and "I nearly died laughing" using hyperbole. 3. Several examples make use of multiple devices, such as Robert Burns' poem using anaphora, alliteration, simile, and rhyme.

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    Stylistic Devices - Worksheet

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    1. This document contains examples of various stylistic devices used in literature, including alliteration, metaphor, pun, paradox, synecdoche, personification, and hyperbole. 2. Examples include "a solitary song that whistled in the wind" using alliteration, "the countess sailed across the room" using metaphor, and "I nearly died laughing" using hyperbole. 3. Several examples make use of multiple devices, such as Robert Burns' poem using anaphora, alliteration, simile, and rhyme.

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    Stylistic Devices — Worksheet

    1. He sang a solitary song that whistled in the wind alliteration


    2. He has suffocated the welfare state personfication of “welfare state”
    3. The countess sailed across the room .metaphor: woman compared with sailing ship
    4. Electrician seeks contacts. pun
    5. A pessimist is an optimist with experience .paradox
    6. " How is your seafood diet going ? " - " Just great . I see food and eat it . " pun
    7. I can resist anything - except temptation . ( Oscar Wilde ) paradox
    8. I tried to pursue knowledge. pun
    9. Not a single word did she say.
    10, It’s becoming more and more difficult to live simply.
    11, “All hands on deck.” synecdoche: hands stands for men
    12. What do you get when you cross a friend with a calculator? — A friend you can co!
    pun
    13. Why did they give the postman the sack? — To put his letters in. pun
    14. Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed. alliteration
    15. “Have you ever seen a duchess?” — “Yes, it’s the same as an English s.pun: Dutch ‘s’,
    homophones
    16. “Waiter, how long will my sausage be?” — “About 10 centimetres.” pun
    17. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than
    seen.
    18. deafening silence / fresh frozen / advanced beginner oxymoron
    19. “Lam free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.”
    20. “I think we've reached a point of great decision, not just for our nation, not only for all
    humanity, but for life upon earth climax
    21. His greatest achievements were the revival of a strong national feeling, the expansion of
    the Empire and the running of the trains on time. anticlimax
    22. Three soldiers were killed by “friendly fire”. (= by their own army). euphemism,
    oxymoron, alliteration
    23. “Isn’t war simply horrible?”rhetorical question
    24. Blankets and mattresses hung like tongues from the windows.
    25. “I nearly died laughing.” hyperbole
    26. The massacres of the Indians have colored the history of the West an indelible red.
    metaphor: a historian writes with blood
    27. The future seemed to them like a giant wave.simile
    28. The Indians were overwhelmed by the increasing tide of pioneers and settlers. metaphor
    29. I'm having a tooth pulled out tomorrow — what a pleasant prospect! irony
    30. I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks and her lips. enumeration
    31. “Peacemaker” / “Daisy Cutter” [names for missiles] euphemism
    32. There are daggers in men’s smiles. (Shakespeare Macbeth) metaphor
    33. If dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
    When dreams go / Life is a barren field frozen with snow. (Langston Hughes) rhyme,
    metaphors, personification “dreams die”, parallelism
    34. The sword sang on the barren heath
    The sickle in the fruitful field.
    The sword it sang a song of death
    But could not make the sickle yield. (William BLake).
    symbols: “sickle” stands for life, “sword” for death / eye-rhyme: heath – death /
    alliteration: fruitful field, sword-sang-song / rhyme: field – yield
    35. My Love is like a red , red rose
    That's newly sprung in June ,
    My Love is like the melody
    That's sweetly played in tune . ( Robert Burns )
    anaphora: My Love, that's / alliteration (+ repetition): red, red rose / simile: is like
    / rhyme: June – tune / iambic metre

    1. My Love is like a red, red rose /That’s newly sprung in June,


    My Love is like the melody /That’s sweetly played in tune. (Robert Burns)
    ANAPHORA: MY LOVE,
    THAT’S, ALLITERATION, SIMILE, IAMBIC METRE

    36. Forty winters shall besiege thy brow


    And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field . ( William Shakespeare )
    synecdoche: “forty winters” = forty years (= age) “brow” = face / personification:
    age compared to an army / metaphor: army destroys town = age destroys
    face=beauty / trenches = wrinkles, face compared to a field

    1. Forty winters shall besiege (belagern, bedrängen) thy (your) brow. ‘WRINLES’
    PERSONIFICATION
    And dig deep trenches (Gräben) in thy beauty’s field. (Shakespeare Sonnet 2)
    METAPHOR

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