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simile
like, as, as if, as though
2He looked as if he had just stepped out of my book of fairytales and had passed me like a spirit.
3It has long leaves that sway in the wind like slim fingers reaching to touch something.
metaphor
1German guns and German planes rained down bombs, shells and bullets...
2The diamond department was the heart and center of the store.
synecdoche
1The Great Wall was made not only of stones and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men.
tonguelanguage
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personification
1She may have tens of thousand of babies in one summer.(From Watching Ants)
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shebabies
2My only worry was that January would find me hunting for a job again.
hyperbole
st.
3My heart almost stopped beating when I heard my daughtersvoice on the phone.
rhetorical repetition
1It must be created by the blood and the work of all of us who believe in the future, who believe in man and his
glorious manmade destiny.
2... Because good technique in medicine and surgery means more quicklycured patients, less pain, less
discomfort, less death, less disease and less deformity.
metonymy
1Several years later, word came that Napoleonyh himself was coming to inspect them...
wordnews, information
pun
Napoleon was astonished.Either you are mad, or I am,he declared. Bothsir!cried the Swede proudly.
Both
onomatcpocia
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1On the root of the school house some pigeons were softly cooing.
2She brought me into touch with everything that could be reached or feltsunlight, the rustling of silk, the
noises of insects, the creaking of a door, the voice of a loved one.
irony
Well, of course, I knew that gentlemen like you carry only large notes.
gentlemenbeg gar
synesthesia
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
alliteration
How and why he had come to Princeton, New Jersey is a story of struggle, success, and sadness
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