Literary Devices

Don't you just love literary devices? There's a conversation stopper. My kids can identify many of these writing elements because they took AP English and have me for a mother.

Here's some of my favorite devices, in no particular order. Can you guess what they are?

1.  The day was cold, cloudy and cursed.
2.  He used his anger like a switchblade.
3.  Cook. Clean. Collapse.
4.  He swallowed a container of death.
5.  She was learning to read and reading to learn.