| A | B |
|---|
| To do this assignment, you may need to bite the bullet. | metaphor |
| I'll meet you at 12 noon. | pleonasm |
| Think outside the bun. | metonymy |
| That honourable grief lodged here which burns/worse than tears drown. | enjambment |
| Like ancient trees, we die from the top. | simile |
| Hailey threw her clothes in the drawer any old how! | tmesis |
| He is not a bad ballplayer. | litotes |
| Up the hill went Jack and Jill. | anastrophe |
| His behavior was... but I blush to mention that. | ellipsis |
| "...of the people, by the people, and for the people." | tricolon crescens |
| The bang of the gun made everyone jump. | onomatopoeia |
| Size matters not! Judbe me by my size, do you? | hyperbaton |
| England expects every man to do his duty. | personification |
| Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. | alliteration |
| Put on your shoes and socks! | hysteron proteron |
| The cat jumped in, out jumped the mouse | chiasmus |
| He ran and laughed and jumped for joy! | polysyndeton |
| He arrived despite the rain and weather. | hendiadys |
| I must have walked a million miles today! | hyperbole |
| Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio. | apostrophe |
| Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. | prolepsis |
| Did your parents give you a definite maybe? | oxymoron |
