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| 🇬🇧 | 🇬🇧 |
| To an admiring Bog! | Metaphor |
| Maggie and milly and molly and may | Alliteration |
| I am of the earth She is my mother | Personification |
| As the sun rises... to warm | Personification |
| Kitchen floor squeaks | Onomatopoeia |
| A tutor who tooted the flute Tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, "Is it harder to toot, or To tutor two tooters to toot?" | Alliteration, onomatopoeia |
| Potato peelings | Alliteration |
| Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout | Alliteration |
| Prune pits, peach pits | Alliteration |
| ...we saw him, dim and gray, Like a a shadow against the curtain of falling flakes | Simile, alliteration |
| All summer you mowed the grass in meadow and hayfield, the mowing machine clacketing beside you, while the sun walked high in the morning | Onomatopoeia, personification |
| ... and in winter frost heaved your bones in the ground - old toilers, soil makers: O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost | Metaphor, allusion |
| The sleek slim deer | Alliteration, assonance |
| The red rare deer | Alliteration |
| Softer be they than slippered sleep | Alliteration |
| My heart fell dead before | Personification |
| Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children go to heaven | Metaphor; assonance |
| The use of words whose pronunciation suggests their meaning. "buzz" "hiss" "murmur" "boom" "glug" | Onomatopeia |
| A figure of speech in which a point is made by a denying of its opposite; a kind of understatement. | Litotes |
| United we stand, divided we fall. | Antithesis |
| My life is an open secret. | Oxymoron |
| She is the wisest fool. | Oxymoron |
| Life is full of aching joys. | Oxymoron |
| He is as brave as lion. | Simile |
| He is a lion. | Metaphor |
| This room is a furnace. | Metaphor |
| Life is not a bed of roses. | Metaphor |
| He was a lion in the fight. | Metaphor |
| Four fools fell in a fountain. | Repetition |
| The black sky was blaring to burn blue. | Repetition |
| She wept an ocean of tears. | Hyperbole |
| He passed away. | Euphemism |
| The Aeroplane is zooming in the sky. | Onomatopoeia |
| The open window shuts with a bang. | Onomatopoeia |
| It’s time for jingle-tinkle. | Onomatopoeia |
| The loose house sheet clatter and clang. | Onomatopoeia |
| The roses are smiling and the wind was telling a fairy tale. | Personification |
| Dancing and whistling, the leaves went. | Personification |
| The cloud has a tongue of fire and flame. | Personification |
| O God! Please help me. | Apostrophe |
| O Life! I shall find you somewhere. | Apostrophe |
| O God! Guide us towards our destination. | Apostrophe |