Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep. The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south. These sheep shouldn’t sleep in a shack; Sheep should sleep in a shed.
What is alliteration
100
“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.” - William Shakespeare
What is apostrophe
100
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
What is chiasmus
100
Her brain is the size of a pea.
What is hyperbole
100
Her voice is music to his ears
What is Metaphor
200
Lets just be friends?
What is euphemism
200
You laugh at a person who slipped stepping on a banana peel and the next thing you know, you slipped too.
What is irony
200
“It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,
And whirr when it stood still.
I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will.”
What is Onomatopoeia
200
It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place."
What is anaphora
200
“the shackles of love straiten’d him
His honour rooted in dishonoured stood
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true”
What is oxymoron
300
“I can resist anything but temptation.” Oscar Wild
What is Paradox
300
I hied me away to the woods—away back into the sun-washed alleys carpeted with fallen gold and glades where the moss is green and vivid yet. The woods are getting ready to sleep—they are not yet asleep but they are disrobing and are having all sorts of little bed-time conferences and whisperings and good-nights.”
What is Personification
300
“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance
300
The pen is mightier than the sword
What is Metonymy
300
You are easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart
What is antithesis
400
“O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.”
What is Simile
400
“When well-appareled April on the heel
Of limping winter treads.”
What is Personification
400
“And you, who have told me a hundred times how deeply you pitied me for the sorceries by which I was bound, will doubtless hear with joy that they are now ended forever. There was, it seems, some small error in your Ladyship’s way of treating them.”
What is Understatement
400
“At midnight I went on deck, and to my mate’s great surprise put the ship round on the other tack. His terrible whiskers flitted round me in silent criticism.”
What is Synecdoche
400
“When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done for I have more.
That at my death Thy Son / Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore
And having done that, Thou hast done;
I fear no more.”
What is Pun
500
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in heaven
What is antithesis
500
“He cried all night, and dawn found him still there, though his tears had dried and only hard, dry sobs shook his wooden frame. But these were so loud that they could be heard by the faraway hills…”
What is Hyperbole
500
“But now my oat proceeds,
And listens to the herald of the sea
That came in Neptune’s plea,
He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds,
What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?”
What is Metonymy
500
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.” -Robert Frost
What is Litotes
500
“Forerunner, I would like to say, silent pilot,
Little dry death, future,
Your indirections are as strange to me
As my own. I know so little that anything
You might tell me would be a revelation.”