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Simile
Life is a highway
Metaphor
The sound Lightning McQueen makes
VROOM (Onomatopoeia)
War and Peace
Juxtaposition
Cutting the red ribbon signified a new beginning.
Symbolism
He never stops talking
Hyperbole
A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat
Pun
Home Sweet Home.
Alliteration
“Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me.”
Personification
Between a rock in a hard place
Idiom
Something so exquisite that it would hurt someone to experience it.
Oxymoron
The elderly woman who was thrown from the train was having a rough morning.
Understatement
Let's not get overzealous here.
Euphemism
“He asked for her hand in marriage.”
Synecdoche
Anthropomorphic farm animals fight for freedom and equality, form a new society, struggle for power, and eventually fall under dictatorship.
Allegory
After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.
Imagery
Zeno argues that a swift runner like Achilles cannot overtake a slower moving tortoise with a head start, because the distance between them can be infinitely subdivided, implying Achilles would require an infinite number of steps to catch the tortoise.
Paradox
People are stained-glass windows.
Analogy
Try to light the fire.
Assonance
In the story, a man named Montresor lures another man named Fortunato into the catacombs beneath his house by appearing to ask him for advice on a recent wine purchase. In reality, he means to murder him.
Irony
“Time, the relentless master, wove its threads through the tapestry of life, leaving behind intricate patterns of moments, both cherished and forgotten.”
Personification
He struck a streak of bad luck.
Consonance
The president's speech did an effective job on swaying the audience emotionally.
Pathos
If my years as a Marine taught me anything, it's that caution is the best policy in this sort of situation.
Ethos