Metonymy - Referring to the Executive Branch as "The White House", Verisimilitude - The old Godzilla movies made in Japan lacked this believibility, Aphorism - Words of Wisdom--you might even find it in a fortune cookie, Synedoche - The hard working mother has "mouths to feed", Malapropism - Michael Scott from The Office takes a sip of wine, "This has a rather oaky afterbirth." (was the king of these):, Idiom - It will cost you an arm and a leg, Alliteration - Peter Piper Pecked a Peck of Pickled Peppers, Euphemism - Instead of calling the car "used," calling it, "certified pre-owned", Epistrophe - "government of the people, by the people and for the people", Anaphora - "Every day, Every Week and Every year, my life follows the same old schedule", Anecdote - You might begin a speech with this simple story, Verbal Irony - Sarcasm, "just what I needed after spilling coffee all over myself, Situational Irony - The police station just got robbed , Dramatic Irony - When you as the reader know something that the characters in the book do not, Cacaphony - A discordant, sometime considered unpleasant sound,

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