Study

Linguistic Devices

  •   0%
  •  0     0     0

      Back   Restart
  • Baby, you're a firework!
    Simile
    Alliteration
    Metaphor
    Emotive Language
  • I am titanium
    Metaphor
  • Do one last thing, don't be dead
    Alliteration
  • She acts like summer and walks like rain
    Simile
  • The rain stung his face like needles.
    Simile
  • Stop right now, thank you very much
    Imperative
    Superlative
    Simile
    Metaphor
  • Free at last. Free at last. Praise God almighty as we are free at last.
    Repetion
  • You're a wizard, Harry.
    Direct Address
  • They were the best of times, they were the worst of times
    Juxtaposition
    Metaphor
    Anaphora
    Rhetorical Question
  • Zany zebras zigzagged through the zoo.
    Alliteration
  • The wind is howling
    Hyperbole
    Simile
    Personification
    Emotive Language
  • Buzz!
    Onomatopoeia
  • He was the best of us.
    Superlative
  • The stars winked in the night sky.
    Personifcation
  • You are the music in me.
    Metaphor and direct address
  • Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
    Personification
    Repetition
    Rule of Three
    Metaphor
  • The victims were executed in cold blood.
    Metaphor
    Imperative
    Personification
    Emotive Language
  • The puppy was abandoned on a cold, wet night
    Emotive Language.
  • What time do you call this?
    Rhetorical Question.
  • Sarah's silly sister swallowed her sweet.
    Sibilance
  • He was a man of steel
    Metaphor
  • 3/4 of the world's surface is covered in water
    Statistics
  • You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies
    Facts
    Statistics
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
  • You, with your words like knives
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
    Alliteration
    Simile
  • I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.
    Hyperbole
  • Paris is the Capital of France
    Fact
  • Don't blink.
    Imperative
    • Your experience on this site will be improved by allowing cookies.