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| 6019046681 | Metaphor | When something IS something else | 0 | |
| 6019050062 | metaphor | the ladder of success | 1 | |
| 6019055320 | metaphor | the office is a beehive of activity on mondays | 2 | |
| 6019055321 | metaphor | this is your brain on drugs | 3 | |
| 6019059465 | Simile | When something is LIKE something else | 4 | |
| 6019064048 | simile | her skin was like alabaster | 5 | |
| 6019066822 | simile | he was as unpleasant as a wart | 6 | |
| 6019069848 | Metonymy | using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea | 7 | |
| 6019076147 | metonymy | crown, for royalty | 8 | |
| 6019081751 | metonymy | the PEN is mightier than the SWORD | 9 | |
| 6019085906 | metonymy | if we cannot strike offenders in the heart, let us strike them in the wallet | 10 | |
| 6019092816 | Synecdoche | using a part of physical object to represent the whole object | 11 | |
| 6019099210 | synecdoche | twenty eyes watched our every move (10 people watched our every move) | 12 | |
| 6019106127 | synecdoche | a hungry stomach has no ears | 13 | |
| 6019109174 | synecdoche | All hands on deck | 14 | |
| 6019114795 | Pun (paronomasia) | twists the meaning of a words in order to create a humorous effect - the lowest form of humor | 15 | |
| 6019124091 | Homonymic pun | "Johnny B. Good" is a _______________ for Johnny be good. | 16 | |
| 6019134563 | Sound Similarities | "casting perils before swains" instead of pearls before swine | 17 | |
| 6019141420 | pun | "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man" Mercutio (as he is dying) | 18 | |
| 6019148405 | Zeugma | Artfully using one verb with two or more objects | 19 | |
| 6019158120 | syllepsis | a zeugma (using one verb with two objects) that alters the meaning of the verb | 20 | |
| 6019160060 | zeugma | "if we don't hang together, we shall hang separately" | 21 | |
| 6019170615 | zeugma | "the Queen of England sometimes takes advice in that chamber, and sometimes tea" | 22 | |
| 6019174293 | zeugma | "losing her heart or her necklace at the ball" | 23 | |
| 6019178817 | zeugma | "she exhausted both her audience and her repertoire" | 24 | |
| 6019180709 | Personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects | 25 | |
| 6019183067 | personification | "the ground thirsts for rain; the wind whispered secrets to us" | 26 | |
| 6019190112 | Prosopopeia | a form of powerful personification in which an inanimate object gains the ability to speak. | 27 | |
| 6019197009 | prosopopeia | The cross describes the death of christ, Eco-critical writers describe clearcutting from the point of view of a tree, a used car salesman writes an ad from the point of view of a car | 28 | |
| 6019212174 | Apostrophe | addressing someone or some personified abstraction that is not physically present | 29 | |
| 6019215795 | apostrophe | oh death be not proud | 30 | |
| 6019220868 | apostrophe | Mr. Einstein would be so proud of our progress in the sciences | 31 | |
| 6019225633 | Erotema | Asking a rhetorical question to the reader as a transition or as a thought provoking tool before proceeding | 32 | |
| 6019235118 | erotema | "what would an honest citizen do?" | 33 | |
| 6019240823 | onomatapoeia | Words that sound like what they mean | 34 | |
| 6019245549 | onomatapoeia | buzz, click, snap, crackle, pop, grunt, squish, clatter, murmur | 35 | |
| 6019254493 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 36 | |
| 6019254569 | hyperbole | "his thundering shout could split rocks" | 37 | |
| 6019260688 | Meiosis | understatement | 38 | |
| 6019264784 | meiosis | I was somewhat worried when the psychopath ran at me with a chainsaw | 39 | |
| 6019270301 | Litotes | a special type of meiosis in which the writer uses a statement in the negative to create the effect | 40 | |
| 6019278859 | litotes | "you know, Einstein isn't a bad mathemetician" | 41 | |
| 6019287893 | Anthimeria | Using a different part of speech to act as another, such as a verb for a noun or a noun for a verb | 42 | |
| 6019306545 | Anthimeria | "gift him with sports illustrated for christmas" "I go to seek a great perhaps" "he sang his didn't, he dances his did" | 43 | |
| 6019312604 | Catachresis | A completely impossible figure of speech - all about "blind mouths" | 44 | |
| 6019318305 | catachresis | "the tears falling from her face were so sad, they began to cry themselves" "joe will have a kitten when he hears this" | 45 | |
| 6019330407 | synaethesia | mixing one type of sensory input with another in an impossible way | 46 | |
| 6019336482 | synaethesia | "i caressed the darkness with cool fingers" "the smell of roses rang through the air" | 47 | |
| 6019342513 | Aporia | talking about not being able to talk about something | 48 | |
| 6019346924 | Aporia | "I can't tell you how often writers uses smilies" "It's impossible for me to describe the horrific black gooey mess I made" | 49 | |
| 6019361118 | Aposiopesis | breaking off as if unable to continue | 50 | |
| 6019363433 | Aposiopesis | "the fire surrounds them while - i cannot go on" | 51 | |
| 6019370541 | Oxymoron (paradox) | using contradiction in a manner that just oddly makes sense | 52 | |
| 6019381790 | oxymoron | "without laws, we can have no freedom" "Cowards die many time before their death" "He that would save his life must loose it, he that would loose his life must save it" | 53 |
