8750115155 | Rhetorical Question | Who knows? | 0 | |
8750116899 | Antithesis | Give me liberty or give me death. | 1 | |
8750121271 | Metaphor | My brother was boiling mad. | 2 | |
8750123419 | Parallelism | Easy come, easy go. | 3 | |
8750124955 | Alliteration | A big bully beats a baby boy. | 4 | |
8750129439 | Tricolon | You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe. | 5 | |
8750135857 | Anaphora | I needed a drink. I needed a lot of life insurance. I needed a home in the country. | 6 | |
8750140666 | Conduplicatio | Drugs don't just destroy their victims; they destroy entire families, schools, and communities. | 7 | |
8750146299 | Chaismus | Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you. | 8 | |
8750150219 | Hyperbole | I had to wait in the station for ten days- an eternity. | 9 | |
8750154577 | Anastrophe | Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. | 10 | |
8750158449 | Understatement | I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain. | 11 | |
8750163839 | Asyndeton | An empty stream, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy sluggish. | 12 | |
8750173105 | Polysyndeton | For Christmas, I want a doll and a ball and an iPad and a new pair of boots. | 13 | |
8750178247 | Epithet | Man's best friend ran across the road. | 14 | |
8750189357 | Zeugma | John and his license expired last week. | 15 | |
8750198827 | Litotes | William Shakespeare was not a bad playwright at all. | 16 | |
8750200944 | Hyperbation | Winter kept us warm, covering. | 17 | |
8750214293 | Sententia | So, I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. | 18 |
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