Put it on repeat
Comparative
Building Blocks
Direct/Indirect
100
“We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France..."
Anaphora
100
“Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down.”
Extended Metaphor
100
I went to the movies yesterday, bought candy, and shopped at the mall.
Cumulative Sentence
100
She turned the other cheek after she was cheated out of a promotion.
Allusion
200
If you had known the virtue of the ring, Or half her worthiness that gave the ring, Or your own honour to contain the ring, You would not then have parted with the ring.
Epistrophe
200
"The pen is mightier than the sword,"
Metonymy
200
With low taxes, beautiful views and a mild climate, this city is a great place to live.
Periodic Sentence
200
Examples: The Serpent The Hero Colors The Innocent
Archetype
300
“Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You.”
Chiasmus
300
This is flesh I’m talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I’m telling you.
Synecdoche
300
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Antithesis
300
Lightning danced across the sky
Personification
400
“When I give, I give myself.”
Anadiplosis
400
He’s not the friendliest person.
Litotes
400
If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are ... a different game you should play.
Inversion/Anastrophe
400
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.
Paradox
500
What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
Isocolon
500
If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
Conceit
500
John lost his coat and his temper
Zegumua
500
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.”
Apostrophe
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