| A | B |
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| Metaphor | Comparison NOT using like or as |
| Simile | Comparison using like or as |
| Fragment | incomplete sentence |
| Paradox | a statement that contradicts itself |
| List | series of items in a row |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things |
| Apostrophe | speaking to the imaginary |
| Rhetical Question | asking something for emphasis, but not needing an answer |
| Parallel Structure | repetition of the same pattern or words within a sentence or passage |
| Hyperbole | over-exaggeration |
| Repetition | using the same word or phrase continuously |
| Onamatopeia | a word for a sound |
| Alliteration | same beginning sounds |
| Symbol | a representation of something else |
| Dialect | author's word choice for how someone speaks |
| Metaphor | "Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them." |
| Simile | "Prisoners showed up in all kinds of garb. It looked like a masquerade." |
| Onomatopoeia | "The doors clanked shut" |
| Dialect | "The Pole.. he beat me." |
| Fragment | "Open room everywhere." |
| Personification | "Death enveloped me, it suffocated me." |
| Paradox | "It belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone." |
| List | "There was everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, and faded portraits." |
| Apostrophe | "Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!" |
| Rhetocial Question | "What would he do without me?" |
| Hyperbole | "A royal feast going to waste." |
| Parallel Structure | "Hundreds of eyes were looking at them. Hundreds of eyes were watching his move. Hundreds of eyes were crawling with him." |
| Repetition | "Poor clowns, wider than tall, poor clowns." |
| Alliteration | "I was his sole support still." |
| Symbol | "The bell gave me orders and I executed them blindly." |
| Metaphor | "The street resembled fairgrounds deserted in haste." |
| Metaphor | "It was an open tomb" |
| Simile | "The passed me by like beaten dogs" |
| Fragment | "A summer sun" |
| Personification | "Gaping doors and windows looked out into the void" |
| Metaphor | "We had fallen into the trap, up to our necks" |
| Metaphor | "The world had become a hermetically sealed cattle car" |
| Simile | "You will all be shot, like dogs." |
| Personification | "who chose not to Go to tasting the bitterness of fear." |
| Simile | "crawling snakelike in the direction of the cauldrons" |
| Rhetorical Question | "But who would dare?" |
| Hyperbole | "My foot was on fire." |
| Metaphor | "The prisoners were poor clowns" |
| Parallel Structure | "To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain in my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slowly slide to the side of the road" |
| Simile | "It stuck to me like glue." |
| Parallel Structure | "Tell them not to beat me….tell them I have done anything… tell them why are they beating me?’” |
| Apostrophe | "My son, they are beating me!" |
| Simile | "My father was crying like a child" |
