alliteration - "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.", anaphora - “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”, metaphor - He drowned in a sea of grief., simile - She is like a flower., antithesis - “It is not about you, it is about the whole world.”, enumeration - The consequences of climate change are natural disasters: droughts, floodings, hurricanes, heatwaves., personification - Justice is blind., rhetorical question - “Who does not love this country?”, direct address - We can do it as one people, as one nation!, paradox - It is awfully hard work doing nothing., allusion - He was a real Romeo with the ladies., irony - What a lovely weather we are having (when it is very stormy outside)!, pun - Is life worth living? It depends on the liver! (1 = the organ, 2 = the one who lives), oxymoron - black sun, euphemism - “the underprivileged” for “the poor”, understatement - That’s rather nice = great, onomatopoeia - click, hyperbole - “I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love make up my sum.” (Shakespeare),
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