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| 2390014989 | Allegory | The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is a novel that can be read as symbolic of the story of Jesus Christ. | 0 | |
| 2390080002 | Allegory | Pilgrim's Progress is a novel that can be read as having parallels to the Christian journey through life. | 1 | |
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| 2390014991 | Anaphora |  | 4 | |
| 2390053570 | Anaphora |  | 5 | |
| 2390014992 | Apostrophe | O, Death, where is thy sting? | 6 | |
| 2390084036 | Apostrophe | Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. | 7 | |
| 2390112014 | Apostrophe | Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. | 8 | |
| 2390014993 | Assonance |  | 9 | |
| 2390092214 | Assonance |  | 10 | |
| 2390014994 | Climax | The moment in The Lion King when Simba faces Scar in a battle. | 11 | |
| 2390092215 | Climax | The moment when Macduff reveals to Macbeth that he was not "born of woman," but from his mother's womb "untimely ripped." | 12 | |
| 2390014995 | Colloquial Language | But by-and-by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I could't stand it. I was all over with welts. He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in. Once he locked me in and was gone three days. It was dreadful lonesome. | 13 | |
| 2390092773 | Colloquial Language | "I don't understand!" roared my father, putting his money back in his pocket. "Hell, I've forgotten more than you or most people will EVER UNDERSTAND!" "Salvador," said my mother as quietly as she could, "why don't you and Mundo go outside and let me talk to this woman alone." "Damn good idea!" said my father. | 14 | |
| 2390014996 | Connotation | The various shades of meaning implied by the following words is attributed to ________: Died vs. Killed vs. Murdered vs. Assassinated | 15 | |
| 2390092774 | Connotation | The various shades of meaning implied by the following words is attributed to ________: Pleased vs. Happy vs. Joyful vs. Ecstatic vs. Exuberant | 16 | |
| 2390225054 | Connotation | The word "Muslim" can carry a negative __________ for Americans who fear jihadists. | 17 | |
| 2390014997 | Diction | "Could you be so kind as to pass me the milk?" Vs. "Give me that!" | 18 | |
| 2390092775 | Diction | "I regret to inform you that that is not the case." Vs. "You're wrong!" | 19 | |
| 2390249926 | Diction | "I'm a bit upset," Vs. "I'm so pissed off." | 20 | |
| 2390251926 | Diction | "I would be delighted!" Vs. "Sure, why not?" | 21 | |
| 2390014998 | Enjambment | "April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers." | 22 | |
| 2390093536 | Enjambment | and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's spring | 23 | |
| 2390014999 | Epiphany | I used to smoke a lot. Everyone let me know that it was bad for my health; however, I didn't pay any notice. One day I saw my two years of age offspring trying for a used cigarette within an ashtray. Seeing this, abruptly it dawned upon me how terrible smoking was and I stopped smoking. | 24 | |
| 2390093537 | Epiphany | Hamlet, the hero, is on a ship sailing to England. Till then, he was over-burdened with thinking and planning a flawless revenge on his father's murderer, Claudius. Suddenly there is a flash of realization. He realizes that there is no wisdom for him to try to inflict the perfect revenge on Claudius — he must take hold of the moment and go with the current. | 25 | |
| 2390015000 | Flashback | When I went out of the drawing room, first thing that came into view in the open corridor way was the picture of my brother. [I just got the point why my mother used to see that portrait hours after he was killed in the WWII, and she left only when she saw any one of us coming to her.] I just heard steps and when I looked back, there was nothing that I could see. It was just a feeling of the past. | 26 | |
| 2390093538 | Flashback | In the poem "Birches," a character sees swaying birch trees and says, "So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be." He goes back to the days of his childhood, and then returns to the present and says, "I'd like to get away from earth awhile, and then come back to it and begin over." The narrator remembers and desires for the freedom and joy he experienced as a child swinging on birch trees and wishes to return to that moment of his childhood. | 27 | |
| 2390015001 | Foreshadowing | In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Romeo says he prefers to die sooner than live without Juliet's love: "Life were better ended by their hate, Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love." | 28 | |
| 2390094542 | Foreshadowing | In Macbeth by Shakespeare, witches are an omen of future bad things. | 29 | |
| 2390278709 | Foreshadowing | Frodo: What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance! Gandalf: Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many. | 30 | |
| 2390286488 | Foreshadowing | In Avatar, Grace says, "I'd die to get a sample", referring to the Tree of Souls. Later she is wounded and is taken to the tree. | 31 | |
| 2390015002 | Hyperbole | Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red! | 32 | |
| 2390094543 | Hyperbole | I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry | 33 | |
| 2390314296 | Hyperbole | I had to wait in the station for ten days--an eternity. | 34 | |
| 2390015003 | Imagery | 35 | ||
| 2390095657 | Imagery | 36 | ||
| 2390015004 | Irony | 37 | ||
| 2390095658 | Irony | 38 | ||
| 2390015005 | Meter | 39 | ||
| 2390096279 | Meter | 40 | ||
| 2390015006 | Metaphor | All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. | 41 | |
| 2390096280 | Metaphor | He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. | 42 | |
| 2390346958 | Metaphor | But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. | 43 | |
| 2390015007 | Motif | The recurrence of the images and contrasts of light vs. dark and white vs. black in The Heart of Darkness. | 44 | |
| 2390096281 | Motif | The recurrence of the images of blood and it's relationship to guilt in Macbeth. | 45 | |
| 2390015008 | Onomatopoeia | How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear, it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows ; | 46 | |
| 2390097645 | Onomatopoeia | "Hark, hark! Bow-wow. The watch-dogs bark! Bow-wow. Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, 'cock-a-diddle-dow!'" | 47 | |
| 2390015009 | Parody | The Scary Movie franchise. | 48 | |
| 2390097646 | Parody | The works of Weird Al Yankovic. | 49 | |
| 2390015010 | Personification | 50 | ||
| 2390097647 | Personification | 51 | ||
| 2390015011 | Prose | 52 | ||
| 2390098620 | Prose | 53 | ||
| 2390015012 | Simile | 54 | ||
| 2390098621 | Simile | 55 | ||
| 2390015013 | Soliloquy | 56 | ||
| 2390098622 | Soliloquy | 57 | ||
| 2390015014 | Symbolism | 58 | ||
| 2390100105 | Symbolism | 59 | ||
| 2390015015 | Tone | 60 | ||
| 2390100106 | Tone | 61 | ||
| 2390015016 | Tragedy | 62 | ||
| 2390100115 | Tragedy | 63 | ||
| 2390015017 | Sonnet | 64 | ||
| 2390100912 | Sonnet | 65 | ||
| 2390015018 | Satire | 66 | ||
| 2390100913 | Satire | 67 |
