Literary Devices

Quizlet flashcards with literary devices from Jekyll and Hyde, specifically drawn from Chapters 1 through 10. Each quote is accompanied by the literary device and chapter it appears in.

Quote (Chapter 1): "The man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground."

Literary Device: Juxtaposition

Quote (Chapter 1): "I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning."

Imagery

Quote (Chapter 2): "If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek."

Literary Device: Pun

Quote (Chapter 2): "Mr. Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of breath."

Literary Device: Zoomorphism

Quote (Chapter 4): "With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim underfoot."

Literary Device: Simile

Quote (Chapter 4): "A great chocolate-colored pall lowered over heaven."

Literary Device: Metaphor

Quote (Chapter 5): "The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city."

Literary Device: Personification

Quote (Chapter 6): "The packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe."

Literary Device: Personification

Quote (Chapter 7): "The smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair."

Literary Device: Metaphor

Quote (Chapter 8): "It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her."

Literary Device: Pathetic Fallacy

Quote (Chapter 9): "My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring."

Literary Device: Metaphor

Quote (Chapter 10): "Man is not truly one, but truly two."

Literary Device: Duality (Theme)

Quote (Chapter 10): "Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference."

Literary Device: Juxtaposition

Quote (Chapter 10): "The animal within me licking the chops of memory."

Literary Device: Zoomorphism

Quote (Chapter 10): "I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life."

Literary Device: Metaphor