| Example | Rhetorical Device |
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| 'I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet' | |
| 'And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am | |
| 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances' | |
| Dog = Domesticated canine | |
| 'We lived and laughed and loved and left.' | |
| 'I came, I saw, I conquered' | |
| 'All hands on deck' | |
| 'Twilight is so unrealistic, there's no way the vampires would actually sparkle in the sun' | |
| 'Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow' | |
| | Example | Rhetorical Device |
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| 'He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.' | |
| 'What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp dare its deadly terrors clasp?' | |
| 'I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.' | |
| 'She's not the brightest girl in the class.' | |
| 'We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare.' | |
| 'Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.' | |
| 'That's a very loud shirt!' | |
| 'Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fri | |
| 'The pen is mightier than the sword' | |
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Greek Alphabet 
Begins and Ends with 'D' 
Giant Word Ladder I
