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Name the SD: The car engine coughed and sputtered before finally dying.
Personification
Name the SD: When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral.
metonymy
Name the SD: The most unkindest cut of all.
Pleonasm
Name the part of the story: …and they lived happily ever after.
denouement
Name the SD: Ah, Krusty – this is your Waterloo! (Sideshow Bob, The Simpsons)
Allusion
Name the SD: I had to wait in the station for ten days– an eternity.
Hyperbole
Name the SD: And I’m thinking you weren’t burdened with an over-abundance of schooling
Litotes
Name the SD: I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumour on the brain.
understatement
Name the SD:
Aposiopesis
Name the SD: “You-Know-Who” or “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.”
Antonomasia
Name the SD: I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat, and a gun.
Anaphora
Name the SD: And he threw the receiver back onto the telephone as if dropping a poisonous spider
Simile
Name the SD: Then he seized the rest of the wrapping paper in his other hand and pulled. And out fell – a book
Inversion
Name the SD: All for one and one for all! (The Three Musketeers)
Chiasmus
Name the SD: You held your breath and the door for me. (Alanis Morissette, “Head Over Feet”)
Zeugma
Name the SD: It was smelly and very noisy because the occupants of these cages were all squeaking, squawking, jabbering, or hissing (Harry Potter)
Onomatopoeia
Name the SD: That lesson was absolute rubbish compared with my Arithmancy class! (Harry Potter)
Hyperbole
Name the SD: Harry couldn’t think of anyone who deserved to win a large pile of gold more than the Weasleys, who were very nice and extremely poor
Antithesis
Name the SD: They had been murdered, murdered by the most feared Dark wizard for a hundred years, Lord Voldemort
catch repetition
Name the SD: “Music I heard with you was more than music.
And bread I broke with you was more than bread.”
framing, epanalepsis
Name the SD: Prison is where she belongs. And my husband agrees one thousand per cent
Attachment
Name the SD: “I miss my ex . . . but my aim is getting closer!”
Pun
Name the SD: The waitress serves a small appetizer of shrimp cocktail alongside a huge appetizer of jumbo shrimp, fried and dipped in three different sauces. The person who ordered shrimp cocktail laughs, and says, “Who knew jumbo shrimp were so much bigger? They must have the poor shrimp lifting weights!”
Oxymoron (jumbo shrimps), Juxtaposition (a small appetizer of shrimp cocktail alongside a huge appetizer of jumbo)
Name the SD: Who makes fame? Critics, writers, stockbrokers, women (S. Maugham).
asyndeton
Name the SD: There was a whisper in my family that it was love drove him out and not love of the wife he married (J. Steinbeck).
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