Literary Devices In Three Day Road

Allusion:
1. “Elijah and I see the most amazing thing since our arrival in France. The Virgin Mary, golden and thirty feet tall, rises up from the ruins of a great church” (p 178)

Alliteration:
2. “We slither closer like snakes until we are a stone’s throw away, lie still and listen, watching for a glint of movement” (p 181)

Asyndenton:
3. “The ship does not give to the waves like a canoe but rams them, fights each one, metal groaning”
(p 183)

4. “It covers the wooden walls, the floor , the straw upon the floor” (p 189)

Polysyndenton:
5. “Inside, the air is heavy with the stink of many men squeezed into one place, the smells of vomit and sweat and stale cigarette smoke like a fog so that the air is almost unbreathable” (p 188)

Personification:
6. “A horse lies awkwardly in the little space, neck slit and tongue hanging out as if it is tasting the bloody straw” (p 189)

Onomatopoeia:
7. “The thud and crunch of shells hitting the mud and exploding washes over us” (p 193)

Simile:
8. “Shells filled with poison gas that fall like a plague from heaven” (p 64)

Metaphor:
9. “It threw me into the air so that suddenly I was a bird” (p 10)

Anaphora:
10. “When it feels too long, and maybe it is minutes, maybe it is only seconds, I run toward where I last saw him” (p 148)