Stylistic devices

Definition: An explicit comparison between two things that are quite different using such as "like" or "as" describes a ...

We believe in a GENEROUS America, in a COMPASSIONATE America, and in a TOLERANT America [...].

It´s not SMALL, it´s BIG. It´s IMPORTANT.

If meaningful words, phrases or sentences are repeated to reinforce a particular idea in a paragraph, we are dealing with a ...

TELL ME AND I forget. TEACH ME AND I may remember. INVOLVE ME AND I will learn. (Benjamin Franklin)

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Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy WAS A ROCK IN A RAGING SEA.

My friend is AS good AS gold.

"These two countries would REMAIN AT EACH OTHER´S THROAT for so long."

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"The frogs began their CONCERT."

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Definition: Stylistic device in which clauses are placed one after another without using subordinate conjunctions; sentences are equally important.

WE THE PEOPLE have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents. (Obama, inaugural address)