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  • Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God.
    Climax
  • “Guinness is good for you”
    Alliteration
  • This article says that spinach is good for you.
    Personification
  • I saw a fish drowning.
    Irony
  • The weather is not unpleasant.
    Litotes
  • If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.
    Antithesis
  • The population of Ireland is always Dublin.
    Pun
  • My uncle is as blind as a bat without his spectacles.
    Simile
  • Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear.
    Anastrophe
  • Oh, bed! Finally, we’re reunited!
    Apostrophe
  • Let's go to bed now.
    Metonymy
  • No pain, no gain.
    Assonance
  • “The swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.”
    Paradox
  • This room is so cold that I’m getting hypothermia.
    Hyperbole
  • The factory has fired all the hands including the main executive body.
    Synecdoche
  • The sack fell into the river with a splash.
    Onomatopoeia
  • It’s been raining for 40 days and 40 nights.
    Allusion
  • bittersweet
    Oxymoron
  • Zach sneezed when he heard jazz music.
    Consonance
  • All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
    Metaphor