Metonymy: The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime., Metaphor: The smoke and shouting were enough to shake nerves of steel., She is herself the very soul of delicacy., I found her biography sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a staff-commander…, Antonomasia: Sherlock Holmes to Watson: I am lost without my Boswell., Anthythesis: She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men., Irony: “From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a very different level to your Majesty,” said Holmes coldly., “To a great mind, nothing is little,” remarked Holmes, sententiously., Hyperbole: His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed., Epithet: … that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory., … his long, nervous hands together., With a rending, tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over…,

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