Literary Devices

in “To Kingdom

Come”By: Passion Pit

What is a Literary Devices?

Literary device – any writing tool a writer

uses to convey their message

Some Devices

Alliteration – words used in quick

succession beginning with letters, same

sound group

Example: Boredom before bed, passionately

piled papers, long song, Chuck struck luck

Some Devices

Hyperbole – over exaggeration, stronger

effect on the reader

Example: I am so hungry that I am going to

die, my feet hurt so bad that I fear they will

fall off

Some Devices

Personification – when human (living)

quality or action are given to non-living

things

Example: The trees danced to the rhythm of

the universe, the wind whistled an

melancholy tune

Some Devices

Rhyme – words, similar sounds are

purposefully placed corresponding each

other

Example: My hat is frozen unto my head my

body’s like a lump of lead, Because the

wind is high it blows my mind

Some devices

Simile – a comparison using “like” or “as”

Example: her beauty as radiant as a sunset

Metaphor – comparison that shows similar

traits by directly relating them in qualities

(not using like or as)

Example: swimming in her ocean eyes,

combing her silk hair

That’s a frosty way to speakTo tell me how to live next to your potpourri

All this talking pulls my teeth

I believed in you, so you believed in

Once I had a name to claim,

I scraped on all the walls like an orthodox saint

I wished for the same old things

That turned me inside out, hearing is a strain, it’s a game

Never have I ever been

Clutching at your hair to cure you of some sin

But that’s the kind of state I’m inSwimming in a pool of godly medicine

Me, I cried out, “God, You

dared me in the dark

I felt a hush fall quietly from my

spark

So now I hide in piles of

princely orange peels

It feels the way You told me I

would always feel

“Come, come,” here it calling

me

Yelling like if ever there was

someone

Who could make things

heavenly again

Feel alive

To Kingdom Come LyricsThat’s a frosty way to speak

To tell me how to live next to your potpourri

All this talking pulls my teeth

I believed in you, so you believed in

Me, I cried out, “God, You dared me in the dark”

I felt a hush fall quietly from my spark

So now I hide in piles of princely orange peels

It feels the way you told me how it’d always feel

To Kingdom Come LyricsOnce I had a name to claim

I scraped on all the walls like an orthodox saint

I wished for the same old things

That turn me inside out, hearing is the strain, it’s a game

Me I cried out, “God, You dared me in the dark”

I felt a hush fall quietly from my spark

So now I hide in piles of princely orange peels

It feels the way you told me I would always feel

To Kingdom Come LyricsNever have I ever been

Clutching at your hair to cure you of some sin

But that’s the kind of state I’m in

Swimming in a pool of godly medicine

“Come, come,” here it calling me

Yelling like if ever there was someone

Who could make things heavenly again

Feel alive

Some Devices

Paradox – usage of contradicting ideas

that together still hold significance

Example: