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simile
like, as, as if, as though

1This elephant is like a snake as anybody can see.

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.

the flesh and bloodthe great sacrifice

2...saying that it was the most beautiful tongue in the world,...

tonguelanguage

4Many eyes turned to a tall,20year black girl on the U.S. team.

20

many eyesmany persons

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

1My blood froze.

2When I told our father about this,his heart bur

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

2Al spoke with his eyes,yes.

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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