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8459771502Allusion"Chocolate was her Achilles' heel"0
8459783375Analogy"That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet" (Romeo & Juliet)1
8459796609Anaphora"I want my money right now, right here, all right?"2
8459808856Anecdote"My dear you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you'll still be ugly." (Winston Churchill)3
8459827268Aphorism"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." (Thomas Betram)4
8459837563Asyndeton"Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth." (Abraham Lincoln)5
8459856679Climax"and from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with a good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you, all of you on Earth."6
8459874407Absolutes"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." (Martin Luther King Jr.)7
8459896378Colloquialismy'all8
8459900645Concession"An individual has their own right to freedom, but medical evidence proves that second hand smoking is harmful."9
8459951197Double BindChild forced to choose between eating spinach or broccoli.10
8459963203EuphemismCollateral damage OR civilians murdered11
8459973166Forced teaming"We the People"12
8459977115HyperboleIt is going to take a zillion years to get through medical school.13
8459996075Implied MetaphorScience is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.14
8460008873Juxtaposition"Nightmares can be juxtaposed with daydreams"15
8460015063Litotes"Thank you, you won't regret it."16
8460025256Parallelism"of the people, by the people, for the people."17
8460035678PersonificationShakespeare giving moon human ability to feel in A Midsummer Night's Dream.18
8460052700Polysyndeton"Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawn."19
8460070103Pun"Did you hear about the guy whose left side was cut off? He's all right now."20
8462821269Rhetorical Question"If all your fiends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?"21
8462832617Logos1 in 10 high school students are sleep deprived.22
8462842657PathosThat sad dog commercial23
8462845957Rule of 3Stop, drop, and roll24
8462855933Satire"What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and isn't no trouble to do wrong and the wages is just the same?" (Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn)25
8462879733ToneMartin Luther King Jr. uses aggressive attitude to show how people feel isolated.26

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