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"In her quiet resilience, she carried the calm determination of Rosa Parks."
Allusion - Reference to a known person/text/event
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"She wanted to speak clearly, to argue logically, and to write persuasively."
Parallelism - Grammatically similar structure
"The silent storm swept swiftly across the city."
Alliteration - Repetition of initial consonant sounds
"His voice was a cold blade cutting through the silence."
Metaphor - Direct comparison
"The wind angrily slammed its fists against the windows."
Personification - Giving human traits to nonhumans
"Bright stars blinked boldly above."
Adjacent Alliteration - Back-to-back alliteration in nearby words
"We waited for justice, we waited for answers, we waited for change."
Anaphora - Repetition at the beginning of clauses
"She promised honesty but delivered deception."
Antithesis - Contrasting ideas in parallel structure
"Trying to reason with him was like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands."
Analogy - Explaining something using comparison
"They demanded freedom, fought for freedom, and died for freedom."
Epistrophe - Repetition at the end of clauses
"The room was filled with noise, laughter, chaos."
Asyndeton - Removal of conjunctions for effect
"She opened her laptop and her mind to new possibilities."
Zeugma - One word governs multiple parts of a sentence
"The mellow bells echoed through the hollow valley."
Assonance - Repetition of vowel sounds
"All hands were needed on deck to salvage the sinking project."
Synecdoche - A part representing the whole