7959920755 | Assonance | The sergeant asked him to bomb the lawn with hotpots. OR Try to light the fire | 0 | |
7959920756 | Anaphora | This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars. | 1 | |
7959920757 | Epistrophre | What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us. | 2 | |
7959920758 | Anadiplosis | The love of wicked men converts to fear, That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death. | 3 | |
7959920759 | Parallelism | She 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 | |
7959920760 | Zeugma | She looked at the object with suspicion and a magnifying glass. | 5 | |
7959920761 | Antithesis | It can't be wrong if it feels so right. | 6 | |
7959920762 | Antimetabole | Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. | 7 | |
7959920763 | Anastrophe | He spoke of times past and future, and dreamt of things to be. | 8 | |
7959920764 | Isocolon | That government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. | 9 | |
7959920765 | Parenthesis | [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 | |
7959920766 | Appositive | Maybe the Toronto Maple Leafs, Derek's favorite team, or the hometown junior league team, the Melfort Mustangs. | 11 | |
7959920767 | Asyndeton | An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish. | 12 | |
7959920768 | Polysyndeton | The 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 | |
7959920769 | Ellipsis | "I went to the mall on Monday, and she on Sunday." | 14 | |
7959920770 | Synecdoche | Ask for her hand OR Lend me your eye | 15 | |
7959920771 | Metonymy | The crown The press The white house | 16 | |
7959920772 | Personification | The car sputtered and coughed before starting. | 17 | |
7959920773 | Hyperbole | I'm so angry, I could kill him! OR I've asked you not to do that a thousand times. | 18 | |
7959920774 | Litotes | He's not the friendliest person. OR It's not exactly a walk in the park. | 19 | |
7959920775 | Situational Irony | Referring to WWI as "the war to end all wars" | 20 | |
7959920776 | Dramatic Irony | The movie "The Truman Show", where only Truman doesn't know that he's being filmed at all times. | 21 | |
7959920777 | Verbal Irony | Alanis Morissette when the man whose plane is going down says, "Well, isn't this nice." | 22 | |
7959920778 | Oxymoron | "I am a deeply superficial person." OR Deafening silence | 23 | |
7959920779 | Paradox | "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." | 24 | |
7959920780 | Motif | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s uses "I have a dream" to unify various ideas | 25 | |
7959920781 | Cliché | "It's not you, it's me" OR "Don't put all of your eggs in one basket" | 26 | |
7959920782 | Imagery | The 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 | |
7959920783 | Simile | You are like a hurricane: there's calm in your eye, but I'm getting blown away | 28 | |
7959920784 | Metaphor | For ever since that time you went away, I've been a rabbit burrowed in the wood OR Sly as a fox | 29 | |
7959920785 | Alliteration | Why not waste a wild weekend at Westmore Water Park? | 30 | |
7959920786 | Jargon | twizzles, toe-loops, salchows, and spirals | 31 | |
7959920787 | Allusion | The 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 | |
7959920788 | Analogy | GREEN : COLOR :: ORCHID : FLOWER OR As quiet as a mouse | 33 | |
7959920789 | Euphemism | Gosh darn it; what the F; she's a piece of work;shoot, shut the front door, dang, fudge | 34 | |
7959920790 | Symbol | Garden of Eden The serpent in this story represents wickedness and the apple is a symbol for knowledge. | 35 | |
7959920791 | Rhetorical Question | Does it look like I care? | 36 |
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