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| 9756204344 | antimetabole | "It is not even the beginning of the end but is perhaps, the end of the beginning." Winston Churchill | 0 | |
| 9756204345 | antimetabole | "I am stuck on band-aid, because band-aid's stuck on me." Band-aid commercial | 1 | |
| 9756204346 | antimetabole | "Women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget." Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston | 2 | |
| 9756204347 | antimetabole | "Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 3 | |
| 9756204348 | antimetabole | "Eat to live, not live to eat." - Socrates | 4 | |
| 9756204349 | antimetabole | "I go where I please, and I please where I go." - Attributed to Duke Nukem | 5 | |
| 9756204350 | antimetabole | "In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, Party always finds you!" - Yakov Smirnoff | 6 | |
| 9756204351 | antimetabole | "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." | 7 | |
| 9756204352 | antimetabole | "The great object of [Hamlet's] life is defeated by continually resolving to do, yet doing nothing but resolve." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Shakespeare's Hamlet | 8 | |
| 9756204353 | antimetabole | "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with." - Billy Preston | 9 | |
| 9756204354 | antimetabole | "You stood up for America, now America must stand up for you." - Barack Obama, December 14, 2011. | 10 | |
| 9756204355 | antithesis | Man proposes, God disposes. | 11 | |
| 9756204356 | antithesis | Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. | 12 | |
| 9756204357 | antithesis | Speech is silver, but silence is gold. | 13 | |
| 9756204358 | antithesis | Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit. | 14 | |
| 9756204359 | antithesis | Money is the root of all evil: poverty is the fruit of all goodness. | 15 | |
| 9756204360 | antithesis | You are easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart. | 16 | |
| 9756204361 | antithesis | "To err is human; to forgive divine." Alexander Pope | 17 | |
| 9756204362 | antithesis | "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n." Milton Paradise Lost | 18 | |
| 9756204363 | antithesis | "small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong | 19 | |
| 9756204364 | asyndeton | "These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old." Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet | 20 | |
| 9756204365 | asyndeton | "That was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby | 21 | |
| 9756204366 | asyndeton | "The breath coming out the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the farthest fringes of life, a small leaf, a black feather, a single fibre of hair." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | 22 | |
| 9756204367 | asyndeton | "I stepped into a deserted corridor clogged with too many smells. Carnations, old people, rubbing alcohol, bathroom deodorizer, red Jell-O." Sue Mond Kid, The Secret Life of Bees | 23 | |
| 9756204368 | asyndeton | "...that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy | 24 | |
| 9756204369 | asyndeton | "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth." - Abraham Lincoln | 25 | |
| 9756204370 | asyndeton | "Now as an engineer, a planner, a businessman, I see clearly the value to our nation of a strong system of free enterprise based on increased productivity and adequate wages." - Jimmy Carter | 26 | |
| 9756204371 | asyndeton | Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How, Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom! - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury | 27 | |
| 9756204372 | asyndeton | An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish. - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | 28 | |
| 9756204373 | asyndeton | He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac. - On the Road by Jack Kerouac | 29 | |
| 9756204374 | antonomasia | Michael Jordan "His Airness," | 30 | |
| 9756204375 | antonomasia | Aretha Franklin "The Queen of Soul," | 31 | |
| 9756204376 | antonomasia | Mel Torme "The Velvet Frog," | 32 | |
| 9756204377 | antonomasia | Superman "The Man of Steel," | 33 | |
| 9756204378 | antonomasia | Ronald Reagan "The Gipper," | 34 | |
| 9756204379 | anaphora | "There is a time for everything,and a season for every activity under the heavens:a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,a time to weep and a time to laugh,a time to mourn and a time to dance." Bible, Ecclesiastes 3 | 35 | |
| 9756204380 | anaphora | "It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning." Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet | 36 | |
| 9756204381 | anaphora | "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails." Bible, 1 Corinthians 13 | 37 | |
| 9756204382 | anaphora | "We shall not flag or fail. 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, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender." Winston Churchill | 38 | |
| 9756204383 | anaphora | "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed." MLK I Have a Dream | 39 | |
| 9756204384 | metonymy | The Pentagon will be revealing the decision later on in the morning. | 40 | |
| 9756204385 | metonymy | The restaurant has been acting quite rude lately. | 41 | |
| 9756204386 | metonymy | The Yankees have been throwing the ball really well, and they have been hitting better than they have been in the past few seasons. | 42 | |
| 9756204387 | metonymy | The pen is mightier than the sword. | 43 | |
| 9756204388 | metonymy | "I drink to the general joy o' the whole table." | 44 | |
| 9756204389 | metonymy | She's planning to serve the dish early in the evening. | 45 | |
| 9756204390 | metonymy | The cup is quite tasty. | 46 | |
| 9756204391 | synecdoche | The suits entered the conference room. | 47 | |
| 9756204392 | synecdoche | He bought a nice set of wheels at the dealership. | 48 | |
| 9756204393 | synecdoche | All hands on deck! | 49 | |
| 9756204394 | synecdoche | There were more boots on the ground as the Vietnam War progressed. | 50 | |
| 9756204395 | synecdoche | I brought all of my plastic to the shopping mall. | 51 | |
| 9756204396 | synecdoche | "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;" Julius Caesar | 52 | |
| 9756204397 | synecdoche | Timmy learned his ABCs. | 53 | |
| 9756204398 | synecdoche | Paul had many mouths to feed at home. | 54 | |
| 9756204399 | synecdoche | "Beautiful are the feet that bring the good news." The Bible | 55 | |
| 9756204400 | zeugma | I have lost my keys and my mind. | 56 | |
| 9756204401 | zeugma | You are beautiful both inside and out. | 57 | |
| 9756204402 | zeugma | The meal and the company were delicious. | 58 | |
| 9756204403 | zeugma | "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit." Star Trek: The Next Generation | 59 | |
| 9756204404 | zeugma | "The farmers in the valley grew potatoes, peanuts, and bored." | 60 | |
| 9756204405 | zeugma | "First the door locked, then his jaw." | 61 | |
| 9756204406 | zeugma | "Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave." | 62 | |
| 9756204407 | zeugma | "He held a high rank and an old notepad." | 63 | |
| 9756204408 | zeugma | "It was curtains for him and the window." | 64 | |
| 9756204409 | alliteration | From Romeo and Juliet: "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes" | 65 | |
| 9756204410 | alliteration | From "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe: "Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary" | 66 | |
| 9756204411 | alliteration | "Perhaps the self-same song that found a path" Robert Frost Birches | 67 | |
| 9756204412 | alliteration | "He not busy being born is busy dying." "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" by Bob Dylan | 68 | |
| 9756204413 | alliteration | "I've forgotten how it felt before the world fell at our feet." Hello by Adele | 69 | |
| 9756204414 | alliteration | All for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front." Ronald Reagan, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Address | 70 | |
| 9756204415 | allusion | The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora's box of crimes. | 71 | |
| 9756204416 | allusion | Your backyard is a Garden of Eden. | 72 | |
| 9756204417 | allusion | When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic. | 73 | |
| 9756204418 | allusion | When you feel betrayed by a friend, you can say, "You too, Brutus?" | 74 | |
| 9756204419 | allusion | You're a regular Einstein. | 75 | |
| 9756204420 | allusion | Potato chips are my diet's Achilles heel. | 76 | |
| 9756204421 | hyperbole | My father drives 1,000 miles per hour! | 77 | |
| 9756204422 | hyperbole | I ate a ton of food for dinner. | 78 | |
| 9756204423 | hyperbole | I don't think a herd of elephants would be as noisy as this class is today! | 79 | |
| 9756204424 | hyperbole | If I can't buy that new game, I will die! | 80 | |
| 9756204425 | hyperbole | You could have knocked me over with a feather. | 81 | |
| 9756204426 | hyperbole | We are so poor; we don't have two cents to rub together. | 82 | |
| 9756204427 | understatement | Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet describes his death wound as "a scratch, a scratch." | 83 | |
| 9756204428 | understatement | In the middle of an intense thunderstorm: "We're having a little rain." | 84 | |
| 9756204429 | understatement | Telling a friend about the expensive trip you just took to Disney World: "It's a little pricy." | 85 | |
| 9756204430 | understatment | After coming home to find that your dog has torn apart couch cushions and strewn stuffing all over the floor: "Well, you had a little fun while I was gone." | 86 | |
| 9756204431 | understatement | When you have lost a thousand dollars in a poker game: "I lost a couple of dollars." | 87 | |
| 9756204432 | metaphor | The book was an addiction-I couldn't put it down. | 88 | |
| 9756204433 | metaphor | "My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss". Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet | 89 | |
| 9756204434 | metaphor | That child is a bear when he is sleepy. | 90 | |
| 9756204435 | metaphor | The dancer was a graceful eagle taking flight. | 91 | |
| 9756204436 | metaphor | This pie is heaven! | 92 | |
| 9756204437 | metaphor | You are my sunshine! | 93 | |
| 9756204438 | oxymoron | This is another fine mess you have got us into. | 94 | |
| 9756204439 | oxymoron | There is a real love hate relationship developing between the two of them. | 95 | |
| 9756204440 | oxymoron | The comedian was seriously funny. | 96 | |
| 9756204441 | oxymoron | His new girlfriend really is pretty ugly. | 97 | |
| 9756204442 | oxymoron | I really would like to try that new jumbo shrimp restaurant. | 98 | |
| 9756204443 | paradox | "I can resist anything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde | 99 | |
| 9756204444 | paradox | "What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young." - George Bernard Shaw | 100 | |
| 9756204445 | paradox | "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Animal Farm | 101 | |
| 9756204446 | paradox | "I must be cruel to be kind." Hamlet | 102 | |
| 9756204447 | paradox | "The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave, that is Rainbow in her womb..." | 103 | |
| 9756204448 | personification | "The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night." Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet | 104 | |
| 9756204449 | personification | The diving board taunted me, daring me to approach. | 105 | |
| 9756204450 | personification | During the night, the blanket crept up until it was snuggled under my chin and my feet were bare. | 106 | |
| 9756204451 | personification | The curtains danced in the breeze. | 107 | |
| 9756204452 | personification | The tree branch scratched and clawed at my windowsill, trying to break into the house. | 108 | |
| 9756204453 | rhetorical question | "What's love got to do with it?" Tina Turner | 109 | |
| 9756204454 | rhetorical question | "How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?" The Sound of Music | 110 | |
| 9756204455 | rhetorical question | Did you expect me to do anything less than my very best? | 111 | |
| 9756204456 | rhetorical question | Teacher to student who has been talkative: "Do you want to teach the class today?" | 112 | |
| 9756204457 | rhetorical question | Husband to wife who is taking a long time to get ready to go out: "Are you sure there isn't something else you need to do?" | 113 | |
| 9756204458 | inversion | "Agree with you, the council does. Your apprentice, young Skywalker will be." | 114 | |
| 9756204459 | inversion | "Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in ills to top Macbeth." | 115 | |
| 9756204460 | inversion | Patience I lack. | 116 | |
| 9756204461 | inversion | Into the water dove the boy. | 117 | |
| 9756204462 | inversion | In the night sky shimmered the moon. | 118 |
