Literary Devices

1. Symbolism
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie"
(Sebold 1)

2. Metaphor
"I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away"
(Sebold 125)

3. Simile
"The room like a vault, the chair like a womb"
(Sebold 136)

4. Dramatic Irony
 "Mr. Harvey would later say these words to my mother when he ran into her on the street: 'I heard about the horrible, horrible tragedy. What was your daughter's name, again?'"
(Sebold 8)

5. Allusion
 "If Susie was carrying around To Kill a Mocking Bird it means she must have turned in her paper on Othello already"
(Sebold 24)

6. Repetition
 "the suspicion her now held that kept repeating itself. Harvey, Harvey, Harvey"
(Sebold 60).

7. Metaphor
"She felt encased in something heavy, a fly trapped in a spider's funnel web, the thick silk binding up around her"
(Sebold 180).

8. Symbolism/ Repetition
"The silk-screened number on her back screamed out at him. 5! 5! 5! Lindsey Salmon in her soccer shirt"
(Sebold 182)

9. Simile
"Our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup"
(Sebold 186)

10. Foreshadowing
"But on December 6, 1973, it was snowing, and I took a short-cut through the cornfield back from the junior high. It was dark out because the days were shorted in the winter, and I remember how the broken cornstalks made my walk more difficult"
(Sebold 6)