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The murmuring of innumerable bees

euphony

the murdering of innumerable beeves

Cacophony

deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before

alliteration

it is the hour when from the boughs the nightingales' high note is heard; it is thr hour when lovers' vows seem sweet in every whispered word, and gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear

assonance

The pretty birds do sing - cuckoo, jug-jug, pee-we, to-witta-woo!

Onomatopoeia

his eyes were two profound and menacing gun barrels

metaphor

the bare old elm trees wrung their many hands in the bleak wintry air

personification

to meet one's Waterloo

allusion

he made his way through the perfume and conversation

metonymy

Have you got wheels or shall we call a taxi?

synecdoche

with all the expressiveness of a stone Welsh stared at him another twenty seconds apparently hoping to see him gag

irony

Lady Teazle, Mr. Surface, Mr. Credulous

antonomasia

Have you been seeing any spirits? Or taking any?

pun

and the boys took their places and their books

zeugma

a governess wanted. must possess knowledge of Romanian, Russian, Italian, Spanish, German, Music and Mining Engineering

semantically false chain

full many a glorious morning have I seen

epithet

"And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true"

oxymoron

he is a little on the old side (about 90 year old man)

understatement

the train moved at a snails pace

hyperbole

night. rain. empty streets. pedestrians running for shelter

ellipsis

do it. or else...

aposiopesis

people sang, people fought, people loved

asyndeton

there was a door led into the kitchen

apokoinu construction

i love your hills, I love your walls, I love your flocks and bleating

anaphora

i wake up and I'm alone; and I walk round Warley and I'm alone; and I talk with people and I'm alone;

epiphora

living is the art of loving. loving is the art of caring. caring is the art of sharing. sharing is the art of living

chain repetition and frame

so we have come to cash this check - a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freefom and the security of justice

anadiplosis

and everywhere were people. people going into gates and coming out of gates. people straggering and falling. people fighting and cursing

parallelism

they were from Milan and one of them was to be a lawyer, and one was to be a painter, and one had intended to be a soldier

polysyndeton

eat to live, not live to eat

chiasmus

away he went

inversion

there's no hope, is there?

rhetorical question

she was crazy about you. in the beginning

detachment

a lot of mills. and a chemical factory. and a grammar school. and a war memorial

attachment

i have been accused of bad taste. this has distributed me not so much for my own sake (since I am used to the slights and arrows of outrageous fortune) as for the sake of criticism in general

suspence

she is like a rose

simile

five years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation

periphrasis

better to borrow, better to beg, better to die!

climax

women have a wonderful instinct about things. they can discover everything - except the obvious

anticlimax

it is not unreasonable

litotes

youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care

antithesis