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| 6927057672 | Parallelism | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair " (A Tale of Two Cities). | 0 | |
| 6927080851 | Ad Hominem Fallacy |  | 1 | |
| 6927099754 | Periodic Sentence | To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius." | 2 | |
| 6927106881 | Simile | In class, Jessie's mind wanders as if her thoughts were being taken to another planet far away from her English essay. | 3 | |
| 6927111704 | Consonance | "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both" | 4 | |
| 6927117457 | Metonymy | The Suits of Wall Street | 5 | |
| 6927123662 | Epistrophe | Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended | 6 | |
| 6927133994 | Rhetorical Question | If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? | 7 | |
| 6927140928 | Digression | Her eyes glinting, goddess Athena answered, "My whole story, of course, I'll tell you it point by point. Wise old Anchialus was my father. My own name is Mentes, lord of the Taphian men who love their oars. And here I've come now, just now, with ship and crew, sailing the wine-dark sea to foreign ports of call, to Temese, out for bronze-- our cargo gleaming iron. Our ship lies moored off farmlands far from town, riding in Rithron Cove beneath, beneath Mount Nion's woods. | 8 | |
| 6927152698 | Synecdoche | Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them | 9 | |
| 6927166484 | Non Sequitur | People generally like to walk on the beach. Beaches have sand. Therefore, having sand floors in homes would be a great idea! | 10 | |
| 6927170996 | Alliteration | From forth the fatal loins of these two foes | 11 | |
| 6927177573 | Zeugma | She looked at the object with suspicion and a magnifying glass | 12 | |
| 6927182391 | Hyperbole | OMG! I seriously cannot believe that Mckayla bought that outfit! One, it was way too expensive and two, those shoes are so out of style. I would get my license suspended from my parents for wearing something so close to that price | 13 | |
| 6927187458 | Paradox | Cowards die many times before their deaths | 14 | |
| 6927192975 | Ad Populum Fallacy | The fact that the majority of our citizens support the death penalty proves that it is morally right | 15 | |
| 6927198522 | Syllogism | All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. | 16 | |
| 6927204566 | Antithesis | We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. | 17 | |
| 6927213289 | Loose Sentence | I spent my Saturday nights in New York because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive | 18 | |
| 6927224445 | Polysyndeton | Let the white folks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly--mostly--let them have their whiteness. | 19 | |
| 6927234213 | Climax | Mary's parents have been discussing whether or not to move to another state. They call Mary and her sister down to talk with them about their decision . . . | 20 | |
| 6927241668 | Litote | I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them | 21 | |
| 6927249052 | Anecdote | Having been bound in chains and left to die in the basement (there were basements in Meridian) by his new father, who disliked him, and secretly kept alive on raw field peas by a passing farmer who heard his cries for help (the good man poked a bushel pod by pod through the ventilator), Dill worked himself free by pulling the chains from the wall. Still in wrist manacles, he wandered two miles out of Meridian where he discovered a small animal show and was immediately engaged to wash the camel. He traveled with the show all over Mississippi until his infallible sense of direction told him he was in Abbott County, Alabama, just across the river from Maycomb. He walked the rest of the way | 22 | |
| 6927254519 | Assonance | Men sell the wedding bells | 23 | |
| 6927263366 | Irony | In Shakespeare's " Romeo and Juliet", Juliet pretends to be dead and Romeo thinks she is actually dead but the audience knows she is not, this is an example of... | 24 | |
| 6927270493 | Anastrophe | Strong in the force, you are. | 25 | |
| 6927625838 | Anaphora | I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch T.V. in a different time zone . I want to visit strange exotic malls. I want to live, Marge! Wont you let me live? Wont you, please | 26 | |
| 6927633828 | Asyndeton | We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be... | 27 | |
| 6927650276 | Apposition | Ray, a dishwasher in his early thirties, was a laotian American schizophrenic and alcoholic from Texas who lived in the room next to mine. | 28 | |
| 6927660476 | Personification | She didn't realize that an opportunity was knocking at the door | 29 | |
| 6927665380 | Oxymoron | When the teacher came in the room, the boy yelled "Act natural!" | 30 | |
| 6927726462 | Euphemism | "Because we are downsizing, we are going to let you go." The boss avoided saying, "You're fired." | 31 | |
| 6927732059 | Onomatopeia | Achoo!!, echoed around the room as the boy sneezed loudly | 32 | |
| 6951083622 | Chiasmus | My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington. | 33 | |
| 6951088567 | Apostrophe | "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." | 34 | |
| 6951093050 | Connotation | Implied subtext of word in context Political boss v. regular boss | 35 | |
| 6951093051 | Denotation | Literal definition | 36 | |
| 6951098541 | Pious | Devoutly religious; sometimes overly devout | 37 | |
| 6951103536 | Justify | To Prove right with reason | 38 | |
| 6951106769 | Depict | Portray or represent | 39 | |
| 6951106770 | Gaffe | Social Blunder | 40 | |
| 6951107206 | Counterexample | Example contradicting theory or idea "All prime numbers are odd" | 41 | |
| 6951107207 | Condemn | Express Complete Disapproval | 42 | |
| 6951107657 | Recitation | Repeating something aloud | 43 | |
| 6951107658 | Innocuous | Innocent | 44 | |
| 6951108086 | Qualifies | To be competent or eligible for position or job | 45 | |
| 6951108505 | Convey | Make an idea understandable to someone else | 46 | |
| 6951108506 | Subordinate | Lower in rank or position | 47 | |
| 6951108507 | Largesse | Bestowing gifts | 48 | |
| 6951109406 | Restitution | Compensate for someone's injury | 49 | |
| 6951109407 | Deplore | Feel/express strong dissaproval | 50 | |
| 6951109736 | Criterion | Standard by which something can be judged | 51 | |
| 6951110151 | Preconception | preconceived idea or prejudice | 52 | |
| 6951110152 | Dissident | In opposition to official policy | 53 | |
| 6951110448 | Dismissive | Feeling or showing that something is unworthy of consideration | 54 | |
| 6951110756 | Imperative Sentence | Sentence that gives advice or instructions, expressing a command or request. Ends in period or exclamation | 55 | |
| 6951111031 | Horatian Satire | More lighthearted not angry satire | 56 | |
| 6951111032 | Analogy | Finding a good man is like finding a needle in a haystack. | 57 | |
| 6951111440 | Discursive | Digressing from subject to subject | 58 | |
| 6951111441 | Aberration | Characteristic that deviates from normal type | 59 |
