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Animal farm- communism

Allegory

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To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden

Allusion

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I analyzed video game dialogue. I analyzed magazine articles. I analyzed the fluffy genre fiction I read on the beach

Anaphora

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I’m fixin’ to go to the park

Colloquialism

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The Beast- Beauty and the Beast

Dynamic Character

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You know, when I was a kid, my dog was my best friend. My childhood was better because of him.

Anecdote

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You can lead a horse to water, but you cant make it drink

Aphorism

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Animal farm- communism

Asyndenton

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To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden

Conceit

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He asked for her hand in marriage

Synecdoche

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Better late than never

Cliche

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Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat?
Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat?

Couplet

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We will swear loyalty to the crown

Metonymy

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I can’t believe I was robbed. Everything is gone. My television and electronics are gone. The money I left on my nightstand is gone. Never in my wildest dreams would I expect this to happen to me.

Epistrophe

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He's going to the store

Apostrophe

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Harry Potter, Catcher in the Rye

Bildungsroman

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We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother’s countenance
Could not unfrown itself

Cadence

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Civic, Kayak, Radar

Palindrome

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Romeo and Juliet killing themselves

Denouement

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break, brake

right, write

see, sea

Homophone

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I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it down

Pun

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If there be cords, or knives, Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I'll not endure it

Polysyndeton

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Too cool for school

Assonance

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Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country

Anastrophe

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In fair Verona, where we lay our scene

Caesura

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Batman / Walter White

Antihero

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Edna & Adele / Woody & Buzz

Foil

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Night & Day / War & Peace

Juxtaposition

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Just as a Sword is the Weapon of a Warrior, a Pen is the Weapon of a Writer.

Analogy

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Beowulf / The Odessy

Epic

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It's hard to take your claims seriously because you spend your days playing video games

Ad hominem

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Spaceballs / Star Wars

Farce

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a modern-day couple pulling up to a dinner party in downtown Manhattan on a horse-drawn chariot

Anachronism

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Textbooks and “do it yourself” (DIY) tutorials on YouTube or “how-to” books

Didactic

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going

Chiasmus

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The gentle breeze whispered secrets through the trees

euphony

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The serum oozed and slopped out of the drain

cacophony

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winnie the pooh, animal farm

anthropomorphism

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i’m feeling under the weather

euphemism

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harry potter and voldermort, twins

doppelganger

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Ethos

If my years as a Marine taught me anything, it's that caution is the best policy in this sort of situation

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Logos

teen pregnancy has decreased in the last five years

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Pathos

A bag of chips can bring the whole family together

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Mood

Describing an abode as an “abandoned, creaking shack

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Motif

Hamlet- spying secrecy

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