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| 8539197542 | An apple a day keeps the doctor away | Aphorism | 0 | |
| 8539197543 | The early bird gets the bird | Aphorism | 1 | |
| 8539197605 | Pride hath fall | Aphorism | 2 | |
| 8539200039 | Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. | Aphorism | 3 | |
| 8539201785 | Life is like a race. The one who keeps running wins the race and the one who stops to catch a breath loses. | Analogy | 4 | |
| 8539201786 | Bark is to a tree as skin is to a human | Analogy | 5 | |
| 8539206208 | You are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard. | Analogy | 6 | |
| 8539210818 | "Green Eggs and Ham" Book | Anaphora | 7 | |
| 8539210819 | "I Have a Dream" speech | Anaphora | 8 | |
| 8539214953 | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times | Anaphora | 9 | |
| 8539214954 | "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" | Anaphora | 10 | |
| 8539234708 | That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind | Antithesis | 11 | |
| 8539245258 | Unlike short-sighted, egocentric humans, God "sees with equal eye" the fall of a hero and a sparrow, the destruction of an atom or a solar system. | Antithesis | 12 | |
| 8539254075 | Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit. | Antithesis | 13 | |
| 8539287969 | Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? | Asyndeton | 14 | |
| 8539287970 | Without looking, without making a sound, without talking | Asyndeton | 15 | |
| 8539289379 | Call up her father. Rouse him. Make after him, Poison his delight, Proclaim him in the streets. Incense her kinsmen, And, though he in a fertile climate dwell... | Asyndeton | 16 | |
| 8539312810 | I detest war because cause of war is always trivial. | Cacophony | 17 | |
| 8539312811 | Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate | Cacophony | 18 | |
| 8539332489 | Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, 'tis time to do 't. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him. | Cacophony | 19 | |
| 8539309470 | And being no stranger to the art of war, I have him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea-fights... | Cacophony and asyndeton | 20 | |
| 8563857493 | I am Sam. Sam I am. | Chiasmus | 21 | |
| 8563868329 | Never let a fool kiss you, or a fool kiss you. | Chiasmus and aphorism | 22 | |
| 8563876835 | Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country | Chiasmus | 23 | |
| 8563887672 | It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath | Chiasmus | 24 | |
| 8563908683 | In the blue grass region, A paradox was born: The corn was full of kernels And the colonels full of corn | Chiasmus | 25 | |
| 8563981766 | Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it. | Colloquialism | 26 | |
| 8563985111 | 'The Catcher in the Rye' by JD Salinger | Colloquialism | 27 | |
| 8563947369 | How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere! And yet this time remov'd was summer's time, The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burthen of the prime, Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease: Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And thou away, the very birds are mute; Or if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. | Conceit | 28 | |
| 8563969424 | Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind; For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs; Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them, Without a sudden calm, will overset Thy tempest-tossed body. | Conceit | 29 | |
| 8563981771 | The radiators put out lots of heat, too much, in fact, and old-fashioned sounds and smells came with it, exhalations of the matter that composes our own mortality, and reminiscent of the intimate gases we all diffuse. | Cumulative sentence | 30 | |
| 8564010997 | The San Bernardino Valley lies only an hour east of Los Angeles by the San Bernardino Freeway but is in certain ways an alien place: not the coastal California of the subtropical twilights and the soft westerlies off the Pacific but a harsher California, haunted by the Mojave just beyond the mountains, devastated by the hot dry Santa Ana wind that comes down through the passes at 100 miles an hour and whines through the eucalyptus windbreaks and works on the nerves. | Cumulative sentence | 31 | |
| 8564031455 | He dipped his hands in the bichloride solution and shook them--a quick shake, fingers down, like the fingers of a pianist above the keys. | Cumulative sentence | 32 | |
| 8564043342 | Sam quickly finished his homework, waiting desperately for his favorite cartoon to start. | Cumulative sentence | 33 | |
| 8564074282 | COUNTER EXAMPLE: Men are dogs | Denotation (not the literal meaning) | 34 | |
| 8564076451 | COUNTER EXAMPLE: You're being pushy | Denotation (not the literal meaning) | 35 | |
| 8564110401 | Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much | Didactic | 36 | |
| 8564110402 | All animals are equal but a few are more equal than others | Didactic | 37 | |
| 8564121374 | Lord of the Flies | Didactic text | 38 | |
| 8564121375 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Didactic text | 39 | |
| 8564121376 | Animal Farm | Didactic text | 40 |
