Thirteen Reasons Why Literary Devices
Irony
" It looks like you made my list," the caller said, ' but I didn't make yours." Actually, you did make her list. A different list. One I'm sure you don't like being on."
Imagery
" The moment you looked into my eyes, we both began laughing. We spoke a bunch of two- or three-word sentences but I don't remember who said what, because whatever you said were my thoughts, as well."
Enjambment
"A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and Anger. Sadness and Pity. But mostly surprisingly of all, hope."
Personification
"A shiver crawls up my back."Killed her." A phrase I will now drop from my vocabulary."
Suspense
"And no, I'm not telling his name... yet."
Hyperbole
"And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed."
Suspense
"And what I saw was everyone on this list..............and more."
Repitition
"And why should you believe me? Why would anyone not believe a rumor that fits so nicely with an old rumour? Huh, Justin? Why...for Jessica, it was easier to think of me as Bad Hannah than as the Hannah she got to know at Monet's. It was easier to accept. Easier to understand. For her the rumours needed to be true."
Foreshadowing
"Beyond him, in the hallway, the girl turns. It's Skye. The back of my neck starts sweating. She looks at me, and I hold her gaze for a few steps, then she turns to keep walking."
Hyperbole
"Blood pounded in my ears."
Rhetorical Question
"But does that diminish any of your stories? Are your stories any less meaningful because I'm not telling you everything?"
Foreshadowing
"But first, let's go back a few weeks. Let's go back ... to Rosie's."
Understatement
"But it took you forever to leave, to realize that I was serious."
Suspense
"But what you did do, was worse."
Rhetorical question
"But why was I writing this to begin with?"
Understatement
"First off, to everyone listening, I doubt Tyler will let you see the pictures he took of me giving Courtney a backrub"
Personification
"Good Morning, Hannah," it says. And every night when I get ready for bed, "Sleep tight."
Metaphor
"Her words, they're not warm anymore. She might want me to hear them that way, but they're burning me up instead. In my mind. In my heart."
simile
"I drop the tapes back into the Walkman and, holding the player in both hands, close it like a book."
Paradox
"I need it to stop. I need everything to stop. People. Life."
Suspense
"I think I need to finish them, and finish them tonight. But should I? In one night? Or should I find my story, listen to it, then just enough of the next tape to see who supposed to pass them off to?"
Understatement
"I'm Sorry."
Ode
"If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. lf my love were a desert, you could see only sand. If my love were a star kate at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I'd be soaring in flight."
Epiphany
"In the picture, Hannah's arm is wrapped around Courtney's waist. Hannah's laughing, but Courtney isn't. She's nervous."
Symbol
"Jessica rose up beside her chair- glaring down at me-and swung. But it's more than just a scar. It's a punch in the stomach and a slap in the face."
Personification
"Like every nerve in my body was withering in, pulling away from my fingers and toes. Pulling back and disappearing."
Saracasm
"Right. You kissed me. To which I said, You're such an idiot. And we kissed some more."
Foreshadowing
"That night drags many of you into the story as well. One of you for the second time."
Irony
"The first few months I received maybe four or five notes. But suddenly, after the telltale haircut... nothing."
Rhetorical Question
"What were you trying to catch me in the act of, Tyler? And were you disappointed? Or pleasantly surprised?"
Understatement
"Why didn't you leave me alone, Tyler? My house. My bedroom. They were supposed to be safe for me. Safe from everything outside. But you were the one who took that away."
Euphamism
"Why? I asked. "Why should we go to a party together?"
Satire
"Yes, Courtney, you're sweet to everyone you meet in the halls. You're sweet to everyone as they walk with you to your car after school."
Personification
"You should've called the cops, Hannah. It might have stopped this snowball from picking up speed. The one you keep talking about. The one that ran over all of us."
Epiphany
"You were careful, but there were signs."
Hyperbole
"You, Hannah. How did you get to this point? I know you can't sum it all up. It's the snowball effect, am I right?"
Stream of consciousness
Because I need to get on with things, Mr. Porter. If nothing's going to change, then I'd better get on with it, right?
Foreshadowing
First Chapter- Hannah talks about Jessica getting mad when she finds out she is in the "Who's Not Hot" list. The next cassette- It is totally based on Jessica being one of the reason to Hannah's decision.
