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| 7594911019 | Pun | "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." | 0 | |
| 7594911020 | Metaphor | "The skies of his future began to darken." "Words are daggers when spoken in anger." | 1 | |
| 7594913068 | Simile | "Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa." "I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills." | 2 | |
| 7594913069 | Personification | "When well-appareled April on the heel Of limping winter treads." | 3 | |
| 7594916204 | Hyperbole | "He cried all night, and dawn found him still there, though his tears had dried and only hard, dry sobs shook his wooden frame. But these were so loud that they could be heard by the faraway hills ..." | 4 | |
| 7594916205 | Litotes | "Indeed, it is not uncommon for slaves even to fall out and quarrel among themselves about the relative goodness of their masters, each contending for the superior goodness of his own over that of the others." | 5 | |
| 7594919030 | Synecdoche | "At midnight I went on deck, and to my mate's great surprise put the ship round on the other tack. His terrible whiskers flitted round me in silent criticism." | 6 | |
| 7594921498 | Metonymy | "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." "I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it secedes or it would have ruined the Christmas parties." | 7 | |
| 7594921499 | Oxymoron | "I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. One word more, good lady." | 8 | |
| 7594923665 | Paradox | "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". "Child is father of the man" | 9 | |
| 7594927105 | Onomatopoeia | "The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees..." | 10 | |
| 7594927106 | Rhetoric | "And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?" "advise him of his happy state— Happiness in his power left free to will, Left to his own free will, his will though free Yet mutable" | 11 | |
| 7594927107 | Ethos | "My three decades of experience in public service, my tireless commitment to the people of this community, and my willingness to reach across the aisle and cooperate with the opposition, make me the ideal candidate for your mayor." | 12 | |
| 7594930694 | Logos | "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal." | 13 | |
| 7594934420 | Pathos | "He had meant the best in the world, and been treated like a dog—like a very dog. She would be sorry someday—maybe when it was too late. Ah, if he could only die TEMPORARILY!" | 14 |
