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Figures of Speech

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  • You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
    Chiasmus
  • Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
    Antithesis
  • It wasn’t a terrible trip! I lost my money and got lost in the woods!
    Litotes
  • The sun smiled down on us.
    Personification
  • Twinkle, twinkle little star; how I wonder what you are
    Apostrophe
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
    Rhetorical Question
  • “Accidentally on purpose”
    Oxymoron
  • He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
    Simile
  • Ana is the Catriona Gray of this class! Her beauty is indeed captivating!
    Allusion
  • All hands on deck!
    Synecdoche