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  • This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I’d never met herbivore.
    Pun
  • All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
    Metaphor
  • Hope danced in her heart.
    Personification
  • O Future, you are as uncertain as the storm.
    Apostrophe
  • The only constant is change.
    Paradox
  • Oh, great! Another flat tire.
    Irony
  • Broken pencils are pointless.
    Pun
  • The city is a pressure cooker.
    Metaphor
  • This policy might open a Pandora’s box of problems.
    Allusion
  • Time marches on, no matter how much we wish it would slow down.
    Personification
  • We had to put him to sleep.
    Euphemism
  • Give me liberty, or give me death!
    Antithesis