| A | B |
|---|
| allusion | Sinbad the Sailor |
| anthropomorphism | Alice's Queen of Hearts |
| apostrophe | "Milton! Thou shoulds't be living at this hour." |
| extended metaphor | A cervical lymph node is a garbage dump. Very small one--just one truck comes, and it only comes from one home. |
| foreshadowing | Obi Wan to Anakin, "Why do I get the feeling you will be the death of me?" |
| verbal irony | It is easy to stop eating chocolate, I've done it many times |
| situational irony | A deep sea diver drowning in a bathtub |
| dramatic irony | Dantes takes a liking to Albert before he knows the young man is Mercedes’ son. |
| literal | The sun rose in the east |
| metaphor | Time is money |
| mood | What a nice day! |
| oxymoron | jumbo shrimp |
| paradox | "Much madness is divinest sense" |
| personification | The wind cried in the dark |
| simile | The warrior fought like a lion |
| symbol | The red purse |
| tone | The detached outside narrator develops an attitude of distance between characters |
