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14 Stylistic Devices Worksheet + Solution

This document contains examples of various stylistic devices from literature and jokes. It demonstrates the use of metaphors, similes, personification, irony, puns, and other rhetorical techniques. Each example is accompanied by a short explanation of the stylistic device it illustrates. The overall purpose is to provide source material to help readers identify different types of figurative language and rhetorical devices.

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14 Stylistic Devices Worksheet + Solution

This document contains examples of various stylistic devices from literature and jokes. It demonstrates the use of metaphors, similes, personification, irony, puns, and other rhetorical techniques. Each example is accompanied by a short explanation of the stylistic device it illustrates. The overall purpose is to provide source material to help readers identify different types of figurative language and rhetorical devices.

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Stylistic Devices – Worksheet

1. He has become the most accomplished (vollendet), acclaimed (bejubelt) and ambitious actor of his
generation.
2. Margaret Thatcher has suffocated (ersticken) the welfare state.
3. That time of year thou (you) mayst (may) in me behold (see)
When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold. (Shakespeare Sonnet 73)
4. The countess (Gräfin) sailed across the room.
5. So are you to my thoughts as food to life
Or sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground (Shakespeare Sonnet 75)
6. Electrician seeks contacts.
7. A pessimist is an optimist with experience.
8. “How is your seafood diet going?” – “Just great. I see food and eat it.”
9. I can resist (widerstehen) anything – except temptation. (Oscar Wilde)
10. I pursued knowledge – but it was too fast for me.
11. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven (= the sun) shines. (Shakespeare Sonnet 18)
12. It’s becoming more and more difficult to live simply.
13. My favourite dance is decadance (Dekadenz, Verfall, Niedergang).
14. What do you get when you cross a friend with a calculator? – A friend you can count on.
15. Why did they give the postman the sack? – To put his letters in.
16. Over the cobbles (Pflasterstein) he clattered and clashed.
17. “Have you ever seen a duchess (Herzogin)?” – “Yes, it’s the same as an English s.”
18. “Waiter, waiter how long will my sausage be?” – “About 10 centimetres.”
19. Her light laughter lifted his soul.
20. He is as brave as a lion.
21. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this (poem), and this (poem) gives life to thee (you) (Shakespeare Sonnet 18)
22. “Isn’t war simply horrible?”
23. The massacres of the Indians have colored the history of the West an indelible (unauslöschlich) red.
24. The future seemed to them like a giant wave.
25. The Indians were overwhelmed by the increasing tide of pioneers and settlers.
26. Forty winters shall besiege (belagern, bedrängen) thy (your) brow And dig deep trenches (Gräben) in
thy beauty’s field. (Shakespeare Sonnet 2)
27. “Peace-maker” (name for a missile)
28. If (your) dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / that cannot fly.
When (your) dreams go / Life is a barren (unfruchtbar, öde, kahl) field frozen with snow. (Langston
Hughes)
29. There are daggers (Dolche) in men’s smiles. (Shakespeare Macbeth)
30. The sword sang on the barren heath (Heide(land) / The sickle (Sichel) in the fruitful field.
The sword he sang a song of death, But could not make the sickle yield (nachgeben). (Blake)
31. The hapless (unglücklich) soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls. (William Blake)
32. My Love is like a red, red rose /That’s newly sprung in June,
My Love is like the melody /That’s sweetly played in tune. (Robert Burns)
33. I’m having a tooth pulled out tomorrow – a pleasant prospect!
34. Blankets and mattresses hung like tongues from the windows.
For women are as roses whose fair flower
Being once displayed doth (does) fall that very hour. (Shakespeare)
Stylistic Devices – Worksheet (Solution)
1. He has become the most accomplished (vollendet), acclaimed (bejubelt) and ambitious actor of his
generation. ALLITERATION
2. Margaret Thatcher has suffocated (ersticken) the welfare state. PERSONIFICATION
3. That time of year thou (you) mayst (may) in me behold (see)
When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold. (Shakespeare Sonnet 73)
4. The countess (Gräfin) sailed across the room. METAPHOR
5. So are you to my thoughts as food to life
Or sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground (Shakespeare Sonnet 75) SIMILE
6. Electrician seeks contacts. PUN ON ’CONTACT’
7. A pessimist is an optimist with experience. PARADOX
8. “How is your seafood diet going?” – “Just great. I see food and eat it.” PUN, HOMOPHONES
9. I can resist anything – except temptation. (Oscar Wilde) PARADOX
10. I pursued knowledge – but it was too fast for me. PUN ON ’PURSUE’
11. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven (= the sun) shines. (Shakespeare Sonnet 18) PERSONIFICATION
12. It’s becoming more and more difficult to live simply. PARADOX
13. My favourite dance is decadance (Dekadenz, Verfall, Niedergang). PUN
14. What do you get when you cross a friend with a calculator? – A friend you can count on. PUN
15. Why did they give the postman the sack? – To put his letters in. PUN
16. Over the cobbles (Pflasterstein) he clattered and clashed. ONOMATOPOEIA (ALLITERATIOS)
17. “Have you ever seen a duchess (Herzogin)?” – “Yes, it’s the same as an English s.” PUN,
HOMOPHONES
18. “Waiter, waiter how long will my sausage be?” – “About 10 centimetres.” PUN
19. Her light laughter lifted his soul. ALLITERATION
20. He is as brave as a lion. SIMILE
21. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this (poem), and this (poem) gives life to thee (you) (Shakespeare Sonnet 18)
HYPERBOLE, PERSONIFICATION ‘LIVES’
22. “Isn’t war simply horrible?” RHETORICAL QUESTION
23. The massacres of the Indians have colored the history of the West an indelible (unauslöschlich) red.
METAPHOR
24. The future seemed to them like a giant wave. SIMILE
25. The Indians were overwhelmed by the increasing tide of pioneers and settlers. METAPHOR
26. Forty winters shall besiege (belagern, bedrängen) thy (your) brow. ‘WRINLES’ PERSONIFICATION
And dig deep trenches (Gräben) in thy beauty’s field. (Shakespeare Sonnet 2) METAPHOR
27. “Peace-maker” (name for a missile) EUPHEMISM
28. If (your) dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / that cannot fly.
When (your) dreams go / Life is a barren (unfruchtbar, öde, kahl) field frozen with snow. (Langston
Hughes) METAPHORS, PERSONIFICATION ‘DREAMS, DIE’
29. There are daggers (Dolche) in men’s smiles. (Shakespeare Macbeth) METAPHOR
30. The sword sang on the barren heath (Heide(land) / The sickle (Sichel) in the fruitful field. EYE-
RHYME: HEATH – DEATH, ALLITERATION ‘FRUITFUL FIELD’
31. The sword he sang a song of death, SWORD-SANG-SONG >> RHYMES, ASSONANCE: SWORD
SONG But could not make the sickle yield (nachgeben). (Blake) ASSONANCE, SYMBOLS
32. The hapless (unglücklich) soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls. (William Blake)
PERSONIFICAION, ALLITERATION
33. My Love is like a red, red rose /That’s newly sprung in June,
My Love is like the melody /That’s sweetly played in tune. (Robert Burns) ANAPHORA: MY LOVE,
THAT’S, ALLITERATION, SIMILE, IAMBIC METRE
34. I’m having a tooth pulled out tomorrow – a pleasant prospect! IRONY
35. Blankets and mattresses hung like tongues from the windows. SIMILE
36. For women are as roses whose fair flower
Being once displayed doth (does) fall that very hour. (Shakespeare) SIMILE, ALLITERATION: FAIR
FLOWER – FALL; RHYME: FLOWER -- HOUR

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