Thursday, April 28, 2011

Literary Devices in Zeitoun

A list of literary devices and their definitions here.


Alliteration: "linked loosely" (3)
"a solid mass of silver spinning" (3)
"impervious to injury" (8)
"never-needy" (8)

Metaphor: "her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat" (5)

Onomatopoeia: "Kathy woke to a thump upstairs" (5)
"shushing of water" (5)
"With the thrump of three car doors" (15)

Personification: "There seemed to be a half-dozen named storms every August -- Katrina would be no different" (7)

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