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| 4358849514 | alliteration | "She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore" | 0 | |
| 4358849515 | allusion | "He was a real Romeo with the ladies." | 1 | |
| 4358849516 | ambiguity (still could mean unmoving or yet unchanged) | "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness," | 2 | |
| 4358849517 | anaphora | "Five years have passed; Five summers, with the length of Five long winters! and again I hear these waters..." | 3 | |
| 4358849518 | anastrophe | "Patience I lack." | 4 | |
| 4358849520 | antimetabole | "Eat to live, not live to eat."- | 5 | |
| 4358849521 | apostrophe | "Oh, Starbucks, how I love you! Your medium dark roast allowed me to survive that meeting!" | 6 | |
| 4358849522 | conceit | Dead as a doornail | 7 | |
| 4358849525 | epigraph | At the beginning of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway quotes Gertrude Stein: "You are all a lost generation." | 8 | |
| 4358849526 | hyperbole | I am so hungry I could eat a horse. | 9 | |
| 4358849527 | juxtaposition | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness. | 10 | |
| 4358849528 | oxymoron | "pretty ugly" | 11 | |
| 4358849529 | onomatopoeia | "zap" "meow" "boom" | 12 | |
| 4358849532 | paradox | Bittersweet, "You can save money by spending it." | 13 | |
| 4358849533 | personification | "the ocean heaved a sigh" | 14 | |
| 4358849536 | assonance | "Men sell the wedding bells." | 15 | |
| 4358849537 | irony | A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets. | 16 | |
| 4358849538 | simile | "He is as brave as a lion." | 17 | |
| 4358849539 | metaphor | "the curtain of night" | 18 | |
| 4358849540 | metonymy | "The Oval Office was busy in work. ("The Oval Office" stands for people at work in the office.)" | 19 | |
| 4358849541 | synecdoche | "ABC's", "lend a hand" | 20 | |
| 4358849542 | antithesis | "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong | 21 | |
| 4358849543 | euphemism | Passed away instead of died | 22 | |
| 4358849545 | denotation | Gay-literally means "lighthearted and carefree." Only more recently has it come to be a reference for homosexuality. 2. Shrewd-literally means "having good judgment," but has a negative connotation. | 23 | |
| 4358849547 | consonance | "pitter patter" or in "all mammals named Sam are clammy" | 24 | |
| 4358849548 | litotes | "They do not seem the happiest couple around." | 25 |
