Alliteration- sounds the same at the beginning.
Examples
1. Telltale trail
2. First floor
3. Big black
Stebbins specialized Seizemore
4th literary device
Rhyme- sound the same at the end
Examples
1.schoolteaching building = ing
2.exploring bringing = ing
3.ranger hunger =er
5th literary device
Repetition- using a word or phrase over and over to add emphasis
Examples
1.to move to fight to be tested = to, all in same paragraph page 100
2.Everything had been shot up nothing worked everything valuable was
Looted. =Everything is used in same sentence twice on page 110
3.on an island, on a plan, on his long flight,= on is used in same paragraph 3 times page 115
man ran out then another man ran out = man ran out is used twice back to back on page 175.
6th literary device
Assonance - to look or sound the same in the middle
Example
Hit him
Intersection Eversmann
Man ran
7th literary device
Hyperbole – an exaggeration
Example
1.Throw hot coffee at the enemy- page 41 42
2. He was just born funny- page 59
3. Howe said he almost felt like he had to shoot them 5 or 6 times just to get their attention because these special green tip bullets were going right through-page 252
1st literary device
Simile - using like or as
Examples
Like as a nurse - pg 10
Looked like staked rectangular blocks - pg 13
Felt like a baseball bat - pg 74
Like an extreme sport- pg 162
Like hitting a wall- pg 180
2nd literary device
Irony – something that is the opposite of what you would expect
Examples
1.a big Somali woman came running from a narrow alley and the startled soldier shot her this is ironic because you would think he wouldn’t shoot a woman.
2. “They hate the cans stay away from the cans” both men laughed. It is ironic because why would they be laughing.
When the grenade comes and it’s a dud and then another comes and it’s a dud too and just as they think this time for sure the next one will explode another comes and doesn’t explode, not something you would expect.