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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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Identifying literary devices

Hello,

I need help analysing literary devices. Maybe you could give me any ideas?

I’m analysing the film “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” (2014) and I need to find literary devices in it. I’m not a native speaker. In the following examples I’m giving my guesses:

  • …of perhaps the most unlikely genius the world has ever known. (Is the phrase in bold metonymy/hyperbole/personification or neither of them?)
  • Let’s just say, the Leaning Tower of Pisa wasn’t always leaning. (Could this be a pun? Or maybe epanalepsis?)
  • I’ll stay, I’ll heel, I’ll even shake hands. (Is this anaphora/parallelism or isocolon?)
  • If a boy can adopt a dog, I see no reason why a dog cannot adopt a boy. (Antimetabole or chiasmus?)
  • I think we can file this night under “Unqualified Success.” (Could this be a metaphor?)
  • Spoiler alert, King Tut dies young. (Could this be any kind of literary device?)
  • Old “Flip-Flop Ra,” we call him here in the underworld. (What about this flip-flop Ra?)
  • – Because I’m sitting here all day on my abbondanza! – I don’t think that means “chair” in Italian. (Could this insertion of a foreign word be any kind of literary device? I’m guessing it was done for a reason…)
  • Are you ready to get on the field, Shermanus? (Also this one. The real name is Sherman.)
  • You may kiss the Grunion. (Also this modification of “You may kiss the bride”).

Any kind of help would be welcome!

  

Top answer

BYU has rhetorical devices organized by various criteria. That makes it a bit easier to zero in on one. htm For example, Figures of Repetition led me to paregmenon for your "leaning" one.

  • BYU has rhetorical devices organized by various criteria.
  • That makes it a bit easier to zero in on one.
  • htm For example, Figures of Repetition led me to paregmenon for your "leaning" one.
  • If this is homework, you have my sympathy.
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BYU has rhetorical devices organized by various criteria. That makes it a bit easier to zero in on one.

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/Figures-Groupings.htm

For example, Figures of Repetition led me to paregmenon for your "leaning" one.

If this is homework, you have my sympathy

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