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Juliet is the sun.
What is a metaphor?
His hands were as oily as butter on a hot day.
What is a simile?
Up ahead, the golden arches hovered over the city, capitalism in action
What is symbolism?
The screech of nails down a mirror raised hairs on the back of her exposed neck. She screamed.
What is onomatopoeia?
The scent of sweet hibiscus wafted through the salty air, its tropical perfume a reminder that she was on vacation.
What is olfactory imagery?
Living dead or Deafening silence.
What is an oxymoron?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom...
What is anaphora?
The night was dark black and terrifying.
What is tautology?
The voice of the last cricket
across the first frost
is one kind of good-by.
It is so thin a splinter of singing.
What is auditory imagery?
The candy melted in his mouth; swirls of bittersweet chocolate and salty caramel blended together... ecstasy.
What is gustatory imagery?
The wind growled a warning in the sultry air.
What is personification?
Chocolate is William's Kryptonite.
What is allusion?
He picked up the ice cold fountain pen, the cool metal barrel resting against the side of his index finder, and sat down to write his last letter.
What is tactile imagery?
The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in constellations sprinkled across the astronomical landscape.
What is visual imagery?
That’s one small step for a man – one giant leap for mankind.
What is antithesis?
A sense of believability in the world building of a novel, so that the reader feels that the setting is authentic
What is verissimilitude?
Of the people, by the people, for the people...
What is epistrophe?
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers.
What is polysyndeton?
To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
What is polyptoton?
An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish.
What is asyndeton?
When you love, love with all your heart.
What is anadiplosis?
Do I love you because you’re beautiful?
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
What is chiasmus?
"I love scotch. Scotchy scotch scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly."
Will Ferrell, Anchorman
What is epizeuxis?
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously.
What is hypophora?
"It's a bit wet outside." (When referring to a huge tropical downpour out the window).
What is a litote?