Hyperbole - “I had to wait in the station for ten days – an eternity.” — The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Metaphor - “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” — Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Siblilance - “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain” — The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, Personification - “Because I could not stop for Death –/ He kindly stopped for me –” — Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson, Alliteration - “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.” — The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, Onomatopoeia - “Hark, hark! Bow-wow./ The watch-dogs bark!/ Bow-wow.” — The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Simile - ”…she hung her head like a dying flower.” — The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oxymoron - “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!” — Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Symbolism - “All the world’s a stage,/ And all the men and women merely players.” — As You Like It by William Shakespeare,

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