"She has a figure like an hourglass - and not a minute of it wasted"
simile
100
"All the world's a stage"
metaphor
100
Boom, hiss, murmur, zoom, sizzle, cuckoo
onomatopoeia
100
"That lazy, lovable lunatic"
alliteration
100
A flag, a cross, a peace sign
symbol
200
Unnamed coastal village in South America (after airplanes)
setting
200
"Love is more powerful than hatred"
theme
200
Affectionate and nostalgic
tone
200
Cruel kindness, cheerful pessimist, jumbo shrimp
oxymoron
200
"Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape"
personification
300
"Honest Abe"; "Hector, breaker of horses"
epithet
300
"Two Wolves"
parable
300
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous." - Caesar
foreshadowing
300
"No food on earth, no wine, not even a woman's kiss is sweeter to me than this air steeped in the fragrance of flowers, of moisture and freshness."
imagery
300
"the hidden strength of his heart popped the buttons on his shirt"
hyperbole
400
"A shape with lion body and the head of a man"
allusion to the Sphinx in "The Second Coming"
400
There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest.
parallelism
400
Term used to analyze and "to unfold" a poem
explicate
400
The main idea of an essay or other work of nonfiction
thesis
400
FANBOYS
acronym for coordinating conjunctions
500
"It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain."
litotes
500
"For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, honourable men?"
irony
500
"Art is a form of lying in order to tell the truth"
paradox
500
"As Caesar loved me, I weep for him;
as he was fortune, I rejoice at it;
as he was valiant, I honour him: but,
as he was ambitious, I slew him." - Brutus
anaphora
500
"A cat has its claws at the end of the paws; a comma has its pause at the end of the clause."