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7959920755AssonanceThe sergeant asked him to bomb the lawn with hotpots. OR Try to light the fire0
7959920756AnaphoraThis royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars.1
7959920757EpistrophreWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us.2
7959920758AnadiplosisThe love of wicked men converts to fear, That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.3
7959920759ParallelismShe tried to make her pastry fluffy, sweet, and delicate. OR Singing a song or writing a poem is joyous. OR Perch are inexpensive; cod are cheap; trout are abundant; but salmon are best.4
7959920760ZeugmaShe looked at the object with suspicion and a magnifying glass.5
7959920761AntithesisIt can't be wrong if it feels so right.6
7959920762AntimetaboleIntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.7
7959920763AnastropheHe spoke of times past and future, and dreamt of things to be.8
7959920764IsocolonThat government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.9
7959920765Parenthesis[I]n Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing.10
7959920766AppositiveMaybe the Toronto Maple Leafs, Derek's favorite team, or the hometown junior league team, the Melfort Mustangs.11
7959920767AsyndetonAn empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish.12
7959920768PolysyndetonThe dinner was so good; I ate the chicken, and the salad, and the turkey, and the wild rice, and the bread, and the mashed potatoes, and the cranberry sauce.13
7959920769Ellipsis"I went to the mall on Monday, and she on Sunday."14
7959920770SynecdocheAsk for her hand OR Lend me your eye15
7959920771MetonymyThe crown The press The white house16
7959920772PersonificationThe car sputtered and coughed before starting.17
7959920773HyperboleI'm so angry, I could kill him! OR I've asked you not to do that a thousand times.18
7959920774LitotesHe's not the friendliest person. OR It's not exactly a walk in the park.19
7959920775Situational IronyReferring to WWI as "the war to end all wars"20
7959920776Dramatic IronyThe movie "The Truman Show", where only Truman doesn't know that he's being filmed at all times.21
7959920777Verbal IronyAlanis Morissette when the man whose plane is going down says, "Well, isn't this nice."22
7959920778Oxymoron"I am a deeply superficial person." OR Deafening silence23
7959920779Paradox"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."24
7959920780MotifDr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s uses "I have a dream" to unify various ideas25
7959920781Cliché"It's not you, it's me" OR "Don't put all of your eggs in one basket"26
7959920782ImageryThe stench of sulfur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood.27
7959920783SimileYou are like a hurricane: there's calm in your eye, but I'm getting blown away28
7959920784MetaphorFor ever since that time you went away, I've been a rabbit burrowed in the wood OR Sly as a fox29
7959920785AlliterationWhy not waste a wild weekend at Westmore Water Park?30
7959920786Jargontwizzles, toe-loops, salchows, and spirals31
7959920787AllusionThe phrase "Catch-22" has entered the English language as a situation that has no good solution, and is an allusion to Heller's novel.32
7959920788AnalogyGREEN : COLOR :: ORCHID : FLOWER OR As quiet as a mouse33
7959920789EuphemismGosh darn it; what the F; she's a piece of work;shoot, shut the front door, dang, fudge34
7959920790SymbolGarden of Eden The serpent in this story represents wickedness and the apple is a symbol for knowledge.35
7959920791Rhetorical QuestionDoes it look like I care?36

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