Front

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances."

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metaphor

Front

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

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metonymy

Front

"But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word... Other friends have flown before... Then the bird said 'Nevermore.'"

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personification

Front

"I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet, and the river jumps over the mountain, and the salmon sing in the street. I’ll love you till the ocean is folded and hung up to dry."

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hyperbole

Front

"I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage."

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simile

Front

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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antithesis

Front

This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by Nature, this happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in the silver sea, this blessed plot, this realm, this England…

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parallelism

Front

Elderly American ladies leaning on canes listed like towers of Pisa.

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simile

Front

Why, O brawling love! O loving hate!

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oxymoron

Front

“I must be cruel to be kind.”

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paradox