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John kicked the bucket.
Euphemism
100
They were alone together.
Oxymoron
100
Santa’s helpers are known as subordinate Clauses.
Pun
100
If you don't donate to this charity, these children may not be able to live much longer.
Pathos
100
You should take the IB Diploma Programme because it will make your transcript look good.
Logos
200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
200
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts,”
Symbolism
200
"I feel like a fish out of water."
Analogy
200
"I'm in me mum's car. Broom broom."
Onomatopoeia
200
"Not the brightest crayon in the box, now are we?"
Sarcasm
300
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
Personification
300
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Antithesis
300
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
Anaphora
300
He crossed the orange lawn scattered with fallen leaves. Fall was almost over and the enormous trees began to greatly deteriorate in preparation for winter's bitter bite.
Imagery
300
A lovely house you have got there.
Inversion
400
“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.”
Apostrophe
400
"Mankind must put an end to war -- or war will put an end to mankind." -President John Kennedy
Epanalepsis
400
The Bible is the Word of God because God tells us it is... in the Bible.
Circular Reasoning
400
That's a nice set of wheels you got there.
Synecdoche
400
I good. How you?
Ellipsis
500
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Zeugma
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
“This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely…….”
Asyndeton
500
"She blew my nose and then she blew my mind." (Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Honky Tonk Woman")
Syllepsis
500
Viola: Save thee, friend, and thy music! Dost thou (bold)live(bold) by thy tabour? Clown: No, sir, I (bold)live(bold) by the church. Viola: Art thou a churchman? Clown: No such matter, sir: I do (bold)live(bold) by the church; for I do (bold)live(bold) at my house, and my house doth stand by the church.
Antanaclasis