6 Comon Literary Devices文學修辭法

Literary devices or figure of speech are tools that an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story or article. They can also be described as some grammatical and lexical forms that add emphasis and feeling to what we say and write.

Simile 明喻
An indirect relationship where one thing or idea is described as being similar to another. Similes usually contain the words “like” or “as,” but not always. See the example below: 1 Peter 1:24-25 For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever."

Repetition重複
Where a specific word, phrase, or structure is repeated several times, usually in close proximity, to emphasize a particular idea. An example of the repetition is known as alliteration頭韻(法): Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase (Robbie saw rabbits resting by roses.)

Rhyme押韻
The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. The following stanza of "Richard Cory" employs alternate rhyme, with the third line rhyming with the first and the fourth with the second:

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him;
He was a gentleman from sole to crown
Clean favored and imperially slim.

Metaphor隱喻
A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity between the two items. (God is love.) Shakespeare often uses light as a metaphor for Juliet; Romeo refers to her as the sun, as “a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear,” and as a solitary dove among crows.

Personification擬人化
Making an inanimate object or animal act like a person. Wisdom is personified in the Bible. " Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her" (Proverbs 3:13-15).