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The murmuring of innumerable bees
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euphony
the murdering of innumerable beeves
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Cacophony
deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before
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alliteration
it is the hour when from the boughs the nightingales' high note is heard; it is thr hour when lovers' vows seem sweet in every whispered word, and gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear
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assonance
The pretty birds do sing - cuckoo, jug-jug, pee-we, to-witta-woo!
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Onomatopoeia
his eyes were two profound and menacing gun barrels
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metaphor
the bare old elm trees wrung their many hands in the bleak wintry air
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personification
to meet one's Waterloo
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allusion
he made his way through the perfume and conversation
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metonymy
Have you got wheels or shall we call a taxi?
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synecdoche
with all the expressiveness of a stone Welsh stared at him another twenty seconds apparently hoping to see him gag
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irony
Lady Teazle, Mr. Surface, Mr. Credulous
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antonomasia
Have you been seeing any spirits? Or taking any?
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pun
and the boys took their places and their books
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zeugma
a governess wanted. must possess knowledge of Romanian, Russian, Italian, Spanish, German, Music and Mining Engineering
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semantically false chain
full many a glorious morning have I seen
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epithet
"And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true"
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oxymoron
he is a little on the old side (about 90 year old man)
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understatement
the train moved at a snails pace
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hyperbole
night. rain. empty streets. pedestrians running for shelter
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ellipsis
do it. or else...
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aposiopesis
people sang, people fought, people loved
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asyndeton
there was a door led into the kitchen
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apokoinu construction
i love your hills, I love your walls, I love your flocks and bleating
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anaphora
i wake up and I'm alone; and I walk round Warley and I'm alone; and I talk with people and I'm alone;
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epiphora
living is the art of loving. loving is the art of caring. caring is the art of sharing. sharing is the art of living
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chain repetition and frame
so we have come to cash this check - a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freefom and the security of justice
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anadiplosis
and everywhere were people. people going into gates and coming out of gates. people straggering and falling. people fighting and cursing
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parallelism
they were from Milan and one of them was to be a lawyer, and one was to be a painter, and one had intended to be a soldier
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polysyndeton
eat to live, not live to eat
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chiasmus
away he went
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inversion
there's no hope, is there?
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rhetorical question
she was crazy about you. in the beginning
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detachment
a lot of mills. and a chemical factory. and a grammar school. and a war memorial
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attachment
i have been accused of bad taste. this has distributed me not so much for my own sake (since I am used to the slights and arrows of outrageous fortune) as for the sake of criticism in general
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suspence
she is like a rose
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simile
five years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation
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periphrasis
better to borrow, better to beg, better to die!
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climax
women have a wonderful instinct about things. they can discover everything - except the obvious
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anticlimax
it is not unreasonable
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litotes
youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care
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antithesis

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