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| 12839113972 | Metonomy | The pen is mightier than the sword, from Edward Bulwer Lytton's play, Richelieu | 0 | |
| 12839115808 | Polysyndeton | "I said, 'Who killed him?' and he said 'I don't know who killed him, but he's dead all right,' and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke andboats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff andwent out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water." | 1 | |
| 12839119020 | Metonomy | Marcellus: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." (Hamlet by William Shakespeare) | 2 | |
| 12839119021 | Polysyndeton | "The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun." ("Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway) | 3 | |
| 12839120984 | Cataphora | "In 'The Pendulum Years,' his history of the 1960s, Bernard Levin writes of the 'collective insanity which seized Britain.'" (The London Evening Standard) | 4 | |
| 12839132209 | Polysydenton | "And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had." | 5 | |
| 12839137766 | Diacope | Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country-JFK | 6 | |
| 12839142027 | Allusion | Ship was named after an Indian tribe. The ship would be destroyed by a white whale-Moby Dick | 7 | |
| 12839145043 | Synecdoche | "Western wave" representing the entire ocean-Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 8 | |
| 12839156473 | Metonomy | The pen is mightier than the sword. | 9 | |
| 12839158337 | Diacope | "You think you've got it but 'got it' just don't get it," | 10 | |
| 12839158343 | Parallel Structure | Ellen likes hiking, watching the rodeo, and taking afternoon naps. | 11 | |
| 12839162368 | Synecdoche | "O no! It is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken." (Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare) | 12 | |
| 12839164899 | Polysyndeton | "And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had." (Joshua 7:24) | 13 | |
| 12839166928 | Dacope | "Antony: I am dying, Egypt, dying; only I here importune death awhile..." | 14 | |
| 12839174131 | Asyndeton | "Without looking, without making a sound, without talking" (Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophecles) | 15 | |
| 12839176684 | Cataphora | "Why do we envy him, the bankrupt man?" (John Updike, Hugging the Shore, 1984) | 16 | |
| 12839176693 | Metonymy | The given lines are from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act I: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." | 17 |
