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“The unhappy Hoo was as impotent as he was damp, and he fell forward like a cut flower” – “Peter Pan” by J.M. Barrie
What is simile?
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What is synthetic personalization?
"The soul selects her own society." -Emily Dickinson
What is alliteration?
“Of melancholy merriment, to quote.” —Lord Byron
What is oxymoron?
Never again will the bird chirp its song.
What is declamatory statement?
"The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.” —Fault in Our Stars, John Green
What is metaphor?
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
What is parallelism?
(or asyndeton)
“He was a Judas, betraying his friends for a handful of silver.”—The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
What is allusion?
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
What is triadic structure?
"I learned the real lessons about how America works from experience.
When I was 37, I helped start a small company. My partners and I had been working for a company that was in the business of helping other businesses." -Mitt Romney
What is appeal to authority?
"You held your breath and the door for me."
What is zeugma?
"Take thy face hence." -Macbeth
What is synecdoche?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age offoolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
What is anaphora?
The smell of baking muffins welcomed us inside.
What is personification?
"He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain’t." -Alice Walker
What is colloquialism?
He did not still feel weak, he was merely luxuriating in that supremely gutful lassitude of convalescence in which time, hurry, doing did not exist
What is asyndeton?
“Good day in my mind, safe to take a step out" -SZA
What is assonance?
"The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me." -Frederick Douglass
What is antithesis?
The end is nigh!
What is exclamatory sentence?
War, tank, skirmish, battle
What is semantic field?
the accumulating seconds and minutes and hours to which in its well state the body's slave both waking and sleeping
What is polysyndeton?
Wall Street reacted poorly to the inflation news.
What is metonymy?
“There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, ‘When will you be satisfied?’We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What is imperative sentence?
Unfortunately we have to let you go at this time.
What is euphemism?