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| 7242429755 | Zeugma | "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." | 0 | |
| 7242430331 | Understatement | "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain. | 1 | |
| 7242430976 | Tricolon | "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right" | 2 | |
| 7242435925 | Synecdoche | "His eye met hers as she sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her." | 3 | |
| 7242437747 | Syllogism | "Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire." | 4 | |
| 7242441077 | Pun | Why was the cat angry? He was in a time MEOWt. | 5 | |
| 7242442633 | Polysyndeton | "In years gone by, there were in every community men and women who spoke the language of duty and morality and loyalty and obligation." | 6 | |
| 7242444576 | Parenthesis | "And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed) KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!" | 7 | |
| 7242446057 | Parallel structure | "While managed wildlife relocation can cause a spreading of invasive species, adopting this approach to environmental conservation will help create a healthier planet, help maintain biodiversity, and help save animals from becoming extinct." | 8 | |
| 7242446982 | Paradox | You can save money by spending it | 9 | |
| 7242448610 | Oxymoron | "Less is more" | 10 | |
| 7242451050 | Onomatopoeia | Boom Crackle POP | 11 | |
| 7242454498 | Mesodiplosis | "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken;" | 12 | |
| 7242456431 | Metronomy | "The pen is mightier the the sword" | 13 | |
| 7242464100 | Loose sentence | "I walked back along the border of the lawn, traversed the gravel softly, and tiptoed up the veranda steps" | 14 | |
| 7242467724 | Litotes | True, that he is no Prince Charming | 15 | |
| 7242469576 | Juxtaposition | "This [guy] graduated at the top of our class / I went to Cheesecake, he was a waiter there" | 16 | |
| 7242471413 | Irony | "Upon the murderer I invoke this curse - whether he is one man and all unknown, Or one of many - may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom!" | 17 | |
| 7242475296 | Inversion | "After great pain a formal feeling comes - The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs." | 18 | |
| 7242479260 | Hyperbole | My sister was so loud you could hear her from a mile away. | 19 | |
| 7242480841 | Euphemism | Sadly, last week my dog passed away. | 20 | |
| 7242482474 | Epistrophe | "Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends." | 21 | |
| 7242484930 | Ellipsis | '"All right," I agreed, "I'll be glad to.". . . I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands." | 22 | |
| 7242486794 | Colloquial diction | "When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery." | 23 | |
| 7242487933 | Chiasmus | Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you | 24 | |
| 7242490787 | Antithesis | "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." | 25 | |
| 7242492838 | Asyndeton | "...that all negroes lie, that all negroes are immoral, that all negroes are not to be trusted..." | 26 | |
| 7242494181 | Anecdote | "Oh, I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts' secrets, Igor. Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished" | 27 | |
| 7242496850 | Anaphora | "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..." | 28 | |
| 7242499758 | Analogy | "Memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup" | 29 | |
| 7242500512 | Anadiplosis | "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." | 30 | |
| 7242503242 | Anacoluthon | "I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall-I will do such things, What they are, yet I know not" | 31 | |
| 7242505470 | Amplification | "If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it" | 32 | |
| 7242506715 | Allusion | "That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles/and my daddy said 'Stay away from Juliet'" | 33 | |
| 7242507938 | Alliteration | "While I nodded, nearly, napping suddenly there came a tapping..." | 34 | |
| 7242509792 | Allegory | Plato's Cave |  | 35 |
