These are the examples Mrs. Huskey provided us with. I did not give examples for the terms she didn't give us, Feel free to change, add, or correct.
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| 336440516 | alliteration | peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers | |
| 336440517 | allusion | "I am Lazarus, come from the dead." | |
| 336440518 | analogy | comparing a year-long profile of the stock index to a roller-coaster ride. | |
| 336440519 | anaphora | We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. - Winston Churchill | |
| 336440520 | antecedent | "If I could command the wealth of all the world by lifting my finger, I would not pay such a price for it." | |
| 336440521 | antithesis | To err is human; to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope | |
| 336440522 | apostrophe | "O eloquent, just and mighty Death!" - Sir Walter Raleigh | |
| 336440523 | assonance | How now, brown cow? | |
| 336440524 | asyndeton | I came, I saw, I conquered. | |
| 336440525 | colloquialism | Jack was bummed out about his chemistry grade instead of Jack was upset about his chemistry grade | |
| 336440526 | euphemism | "he is at rest" is a euphemism for "he is dead." | |
| 336440527 | hyperbole | We walked along a road in Cumberland and stooped, because the sky hung so low." —Thomas Wolfe | |
| 336440528 | irony | 'This plan means that one generation pay for another. Now that's just dandy." —Huey P. Long | |
| 336440529 | juxtaposition | An author my juxtapose the average day of a typical American with that of someone in the third world in order to make a point of social commentary | |
| 336440530 | litotes | Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her appearance for the worse." —Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub | |
| 336440531 | malapropism | "Dad says the monster is just a pigment of my imagination." | |
| 336440532 | metaphor | "A breeze blew though the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other.. . twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of a ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it...."—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby | |
| 336440533 | metonymy | The British Crown has been plagued by scandal | |
| 336440534 | onomatopoeia | ". . . From the clamor and the clangor of the bells!" —Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Bells" | |
| 336440535 | oxymoron | "O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!" - John Donne | |
| 336440536 | paradox | "Art is a form of lying to tell the truth." - Pablo Picasso | |
| 336440537 | parallelism | 'The love of liberty, jury trial, the writ of habeas corpus, and all the blessings of free government..." —John Randolph of Roanoke "Speech on the Greek Cause" | |
| 336440538 | polysyndeton | "What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, three, and two, and one." - Sandra Cisneros | |
| 336440539 | pun | "My dog has a fur coat and pants!" "I was stirred by his cooking lesson." | |
| 336440540 | rhetorical question | "Robert, is this any way to speak to your mother?" | |
| 336440541 | simile | "The night is bleeding like a cut." —Bono | |
| 336440542 | zeugma | "You held your breath and the door for me." - Alanis Morrisette |
