Literary Devices in The Road

Imagery
"His hand rose and fell softly with each precious breath"
(pg 3)

Simile
"Their light playing over the wet flow stonewalls. Like pilgrims in a fable"
(pg 3)

Assonance
"Barren, silent, godless"
(pg 4)

Repetition
"If he is not the word of god god never spoke"
(pg 5)

Alliteration
"black burn"
(pg 8)

Personification
"Rain blow across the valley"
(pg 9)

Foreshadowing
"Are we going to die?
  Sometime. Not now"
(pg 10)

Onomatopoeia
"water drip in the woods"
(pg 11)

Apostrophe
"Oh God, he whispered. Oh God"
(pg 12)

Hyperbole
"A corpse in the doorway dried to leather"
(pg 12)