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Amira ate at Aladdin's Eatery.
Alliteration
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"Senator Obama's call to 'ask not just what our government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves' had an even more direct connection to the inaugural address of the first G.I. Generation president of the United States."
Allusion (Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, Millennial Makeover. Rutgers Univ. Press, 2008)
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"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, 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; we shall never surrender."
Anaphora (Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, June 4, 1940)
100
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Aphorism -Voltaire
100
"The sun will rise the next morning."
Axiom -Philosopher Namo
200
“I detest war because cause of war is always trivial.”
Cacophony
200
"Y'all know, after watching One Direction, Bieber ain't my type no more." -Anny
Colloquialism
200
"We're all in the same game, just different levels; Dealing with the same hell, just different devils."
Conceit
200
Chinese Guy: "So your ancestors escaped to this island..." Taiwanese Guy: "No! It was a tactical retreat." Chinese Guy: "You must be a little special to say that."
Euphemism
200
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
Internal Rhyme ("The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe)
300
'Did you hear about the guy who got hit in the head with a can of soda? He was lucky it was a soft drink."
Conundrum
300
"Your mama's so fat that she don't need the internet; she's already world wide."
Metaphor
300
"I'll love you till China and Africa meet, the river jumps over the mountain, And the salmon sing in the street..."
Hyperbole ("As I Walked Out One Evening" by W.H. Auden)
300
"Thanks for the extra essay, Mr. Guy, now I have more time to do my homework!" - Peter.. after not doing his homework
Verbal Irony
300
The scene in Lamb to Slaughter in which a woman kills her husband with a frozen lamb leg. After this is shown to the audience, the husband's friends, who are police officers, come to investigate the murder, and the wife offers them to eat the lamb leg.
Dramatic Irony
400
A TV weather presenter gets caught in an unexpected storm.
Situational Irony
400
Arlindo: Aren't my jokes funny? Angelo: Well.. they're not unfunny, but you can work on them more.
Litotes
400
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Metonymy (from Edward Bulwer Lytton's play Richelieu)
400
Namo giggled as the tap water sprinkled on his face.
Onomatopoeia
400
Your example of onomatopoeia is awfully good.
Oxymoron
500
"I'm a compulsive liar."
Paradox
500
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
Sarcasm -Groucho Marx
500
All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
Syllogism
500
“With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then could not see to see.”
Synesthesia ("Dying" by Emily Dickens)
500
"Writing is my bread and butter."
Synecdoche
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