Gilgamesh Literary Elements
| Anaphora | a repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses | What we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence...
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| Flashback | Where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative. | She watched the clouds roll by. Suddenly she could smell the rotting wood from that day so long ago when the floods had washed away her home. |
| Hyperbole | deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect. In formal writing the hyperbole must be clearly intended as an exaggeration | Your homework is killing me |
| Metaphor | compares two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other. Unlike a simile or analogy, metaphor asserts that one thing is another thing | Thus a mind that is free from passion is a very citadel. --Marcus Aurelius Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life." --John 6:35 |
| Personification | metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes--attributes of form, character, feelings, behavior, and so on | The ship began to creak and protest as it struggled against the rising sea. I can't get the fuel pump back on because this bolt is being uncooperative. |
| Simile | a comparison between two different things using "like" or "as." | She's as bubbly as new-poured Pepsi |
| Synecdoche | a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part. | Farmer Jones has two hundred head of cattle and three hired hands She bought a new set of wheels |
Last Updated 8-13-07