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| I'm not afraid of dying, kid, you understand? Maybe a week. Maybe two.
| ELLIPSIS.
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| After three days in the hospital, two days in jail, seven hours in the car, and six hours in the motel, Mark...
| ENUMERATION.
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| . He is crazy as hell
| SIMILE.
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| ..., had once again situated himself in Ord's office to analyze the latest.
| ELLIPSIS.
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| But we showed them, didn't we kid? We showed them.
| REPETITION.
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| No bugs, wire, body mikes, salt shakers, or ketchup bottles
| ENUMERATION.
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| . He stuck the filter between his lips like a gangster.
| SIMILE.
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| 2. They dispose of my chubby little body somewhere, just like they did Senator Boyette and, bum!, just like that, New Orleans has another unsolved murder.
| REPETITION.
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| The sooner you get here, the sooner you'll get the body.
| REPETITION.
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| 2. He got the house, kids, trophy wife everything.
| ENUMERATION.
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| Listen, Reggie. Wait a minute! Listen! Can You hear it?... Just wait a minute.
| REPETITION.
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| 1. The only time their father had spend at home was to drink and sleep and abuse them.
| ENUMERATION.
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| He felt like an eleven-year-old father
| SIMILE.
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| Why, why, why, who, who, who. You are a
real pain in the ass, Mark.
| REPETITION.
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| " Very good question, " Bobby said like a profess Pandering a first-year law student.
| HIPERBOLE.
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| You are the stupid one, Mark thought again.
| UNDERSTATEMENT.
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| He had four of them in his pocket that Afternoon as he lad his brother, Ricky, age eight, down the path into the woods behind their trailer park
| INVERSION.
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| ...., then squirmed and slid backward like drugged elephant until he hit the rear window.
| SIMILE.
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| Slowly ever so slowly, he inched his shaking finger to the door lock switch.
| HIPERBOLE.
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| My name is Gill Teal and I 'm a lawyer, and specialize in auto accidents, especially cases involving large trucks.
| POLYSINDATON.
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| None of your damned business, okey, kid, i'm nuts, okey.
| UNDERSTATEMENT.
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| It took years, but she slowly pieced her life back together.
| METONIMY.
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| The after math had not been pretty, but the drunken idiot stopped beating their. mother.
| UNDERSTATEMENT.
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| Good luck to you, Mark, and I assure you you've been a bigger pain.
| HIPERBOLE.
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| The blade is not the smartest thug I’ve ever met.
| UNDERSTATEMENT.
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| And Mark glanced at the bullet hole in the window, and at the millions of tiny crooked cracks running from it, then at the red face and heavy eyelids.
| POLYSINDATON.
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| He was married and that was mandatory
| Parallel constructions
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| Shhhhhh, you are talking too loud.
| HIPERBOLE.
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| 3. He started chasing women, and became involved with a younger nurse, who eventually became wife number two.
| POLYSINDATON.
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| Thinks he's genius, but he's really quite stupid.
| UNDERSTATEMENT.
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| " You're too crazy, " she kept muttering, and it was not idle talk.
| HIPERBOLE.
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| He was like a pregnant woman
| Simile
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| She was quiet, light, fragile, tender, affectionate, loving, delicate
| Enumeration
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| we ride, play tennis or golf, swim or gamble
| Enumeration
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