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Love is blind.
personification
Whosever room this is should be ashamed! You say it’s mine? Oh, dear, I knew it looked familiar!
irony
“Today was a very cold and bitter day, so I will go out and celebrate."
irony
I behold a rainbow in the sky; it was when my life began.
symbolism
For there drifted out sweet music that caught him and held him transfixed against the iron fence.
Personification
She began to talk in Spanish, a bittersweet stream of melancholy music.
metaphor
Months went by, and still that little cloud of unforgotten cowardice hover above the camp.
Personification
You are a thousand times a more proper man than she is a woman.
Hyperbole
So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground.
simile
But yesterday the word of Caesar might have stood against the world; now lies he there. .
personification
I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster. A most scurvy monster!
Hyperbole
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.
symbolism
But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
hyperbole
All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Metaphor
It is dreams that have destroyed us.
personification
