Boys will be boys” – Diaphora

The wedding was so emotional that even the cake was in tiers.” - Homophonic pun

You can tune a guitar, but you can’t tuna fish. Unless you play bass.” - Homographic pun

3. “Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert? Because he can eat the sand which is there. But what brought the sandwiches there? Why, Noah sent Ham, and his descendants mustered and bred.” – compound pun. There are several separate puns, including the pun on “sand which” and “sandwich, ” as well as “Ham” (a Biblical figure) and “ham” and the homophonic puns on “mustered”/“mustard” and “bred”/“bread.”

4. Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

5. Make like a tree and leave.

6. Put that down, it’s nacho cheese.

Zeugma – 2

1. “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.” —Francis Bacon

2. “We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” —John F. Kennedy

3. “Now when all the clowns that you have commissioned. / Have died in battle or in vain.” —Bob Dylan, “Queen Jane Approximately”

4. “A house they call the rising sun, where love and money are made.” —Dolly Parton, “The House of the Rising Sun”

5. “You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit.” —Star Trek: The Next Generation

Semantically false chain - 1

Violation of phraseological unit - 3

Rhetorical question – 2

1. Rachel: Guess what, guess what?
Chandler: Let’s see, the fifth dentist caved, now they all recommend trident? – TV Show “Friends”

2. Joey (making fun of Chandler): I’m Chandler. Could I BE wearing any more clothes? – TV Show “Friends”

3. Are you kidding me?

4. Does it look like I care?

5. Sure, why not?

Repetition- 5

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” - Negative-Positive Restatement

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” (Benjamin Franklin) – Antistasis

3. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) - Epistrophe

Boys will be boys” – Diaphora

5. “With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder.” (William Shakespeare, Richard II) - Polyptoton

Parallelism – 3

1. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” —Dalai Lama

2. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” —Dale Carnegie

3. “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill

4. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” —John F. Kennedy

5. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” ― Bernard M. Baruch

Chiasmus – 2

1. " His jokes were sermons, and his sermons jokes."

2. '' Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men."

3. '' Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men."

4. ''Down dropped, the breeze, The sails dropped down."

Inversion – 3

1. “Wars not make one great.” – Master Yoda

2. “If no mistake you have made, yet losing you are… a different game you should play” - Master Yoda

3. “When you look at the dark side, careful you must be, for the dark side looks back.” - Master Yoda

4. “Ah, strong am I with the Force, but not that strong.” - Master Yoda

Detachment – 3

1. " Steyne rose up, grinding his teeth, pale, and with fury in his eyes."

2. " Sir Pitt came in first, very much flushed, and rather unsteady in his gait"

3. ‘Daylight was dying, the moon rising, gold behind the poplars.'

Ellipsis – 3

1. “Come to lunch someday, ” [Mr. McKee] suggested, as we groaned down in the elevator.
“Where? ”
“Anywhere.”
“Keep your hands off the lever, ” snapped the elevator boy.
“I beg your pardon, ” said Mr. McKee with dignity, “I didn’t know I was touching it.”
“All right, ” I agreed, “I’ll be glad to.”
... I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands.\
“Beauty and the Beast…Loneliness…Old Grocery House…Brook’n Bridge….”
Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring at the morningTribune, and waiting for the four o’clock train. - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. The vast flapping sheet flattened itself out, and each shove of the brush revealed fresh legs, hoops, horses, glistening reds and blues, beautifully smooth, until half the wall was covered with the advertisement of a circus; a hundred horsemen, twenty performing seals, lions, tigers…Craning forwards, for she was short-sighted, she read it out… “will visit this town, ” she read. - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

3. Um…I’m not sure that’s true.

4. You went to the restaurant. And…?

5. I’ll get something to drink, but I’m not sure what…

Aposiopesis – 3

Apokoinu Constructions – 1

Suspense – 1

‘Footsteps of death’ by Victor Gunn

1. Floyed Trenton’s blood seemed to thicken in his veins like glue, so that his arteries ceased functioning, leaving him paralyzed. This was piling it on with a vengeance! The realization that added peril was of his own making did nothing to alleviate his inward alarm. Fortunately, he was not called upon to speak, for Mr. Cruickshank continued. P. 14

2. The earlier shocks were as nothing compared with the bludgeon-like force of the mental blow which hit Floyed Trenton as he felt the detective’s hand on his shoulder. For one devastating moment he believed that Inspector Cromwell had been playing with him – that Cromwell had recognized him from the first moment. Time seemed to stand still. He puffed at his cigar, but the action was entirely, mechanical. P. 15

3. The riddles, both of them, were unanswerable. The only fact that thwacked into Stacey’s mind fevered brain with all stunning force of a Joe Louis punch was that somebody unknown, calling himself Mr. Nemesis, knew something. The coincidence of the cherub-faces killer, as black and tained as hell itself, came back at him like a thousand gibbering devils from the nethermost inferno. P. 23

4. Trenton felt that the blood in his veins had frozen solid. He had been about to voice another warning, but the words never materialized. He stood as though petrified, not daring to turn – yet. It seemed to him that an age passed before he was master of himself, but actually the period was infinitesimal. A rapid thaw affected his veins, and in another moment his blood seemed to be rushing though his body like molten lava. P. 31

5. Mr. Stacey uttered the last word in a horrified squal, and stood shaking in every fat limb, clutching at his car for support. Cromwell’s eyes raked over the vehicle, swept up and down the empty road, and came back to Stacey. And Stacey was looking desperately ill. Yet there seemed to lurk at the back of his eyes a glimmer of vicious satisfaction. P. 39

6. It was a bolt from the illimitable blue. Floyed Trenton felt strangely numb and cold as he stood facing the elderly, wizened-faced street cleaner who, of all people in Netherton, had recognized him! P. 53

7. Exactly what Nigel Stacey felt, apart from palpitating panic, it is difficult to say. His sheep-guglings were the only sounds he could utter, for his vocal cords had now become entangled and knotted to such an extent that intricate machinery would be needed to unravel them. His captor had lifted him clear of the ground and was carrying him bodily. The one lucid thought which seared through Staycey’s mind like a stream of molten lava was that he was in the grip of something that had walked straight out of a Boris Karloff film. P. 69

8. Stacey could not reply for a moment. To him, in his present jittery condition, there were all the elements of black magic in this situation. He already received ample evidence that ‘’Mr. Nemesis” was something more tangible than a mere name. p. 102

9. Nigel Stacey did not actually stagger as he left the booth. It would be more correct to say that he reeled as though he had been hit by some blunt instrument. He groped his way towards the great circular door, and his eyes were glassy and fixed; his face was drained of all colour until it looked as pallid as a death mask. He emerged into the sunshine, where his appearance was even more noticeable. P. 103

10. There was no getting away from the fact that everyone of Stacey tried to think and failed. Thinking gave him an acute pain between the ears. His brain was humming like a disturbed hornets nest. But he had an impression that a glaring clue to the identity of “Mr. Nemesis” was staring him in the face, if he could only get into focus. P. 111

11. Then he went cold from head to foot. Glancing round, he saw the swing doors of the restaurant opening. There people emerging – his wife, his daughter and Harry Hamilton! Too late, h turned his head,. Pamela had seen him - and recognized him!

Floyd Trenton’s face, in spite of his iron self-control, was almost grey. There was no getting out of this terrible position. P. 117

12. She said nothing at all. Her face suddenly went as pale as death, and Harry Hamilton, with a straled cry, caught her as she was collapsing in a dead faint. Pamela was looking in her eyes opened wide and round. P.118

13. Now the call had been made his emotions were chaotic. He as startled, and he was worried, and he was angry. He hated having his hand forced. But fate stepped in with unmistakable brutality this time – as if Floyed Trenton to get on with the job. And now that the die had been cast for him, he was feeling fiercely thrilled. P.121

14. Mary Wayne caught at the arms of her chair, and her lips became tight, her eyes frightened. P. 137

15. As he crept towards the ruins there was a wild, sadistic look in his eyes. At heart he was that rare phenomenon, a born killer – a murderer, who actually enjoyed his grisly work. P. 139

16. Trenton stood petrified; he experienced the curious sensation of being stone cold over every inch of his skin, and boiling hot inside. The only sounds caused by old Jock’s wheezy breathing, and by drip-drip of water from Ironsides’s clothes. It struck Trenton with a dull shock that Cromwell had made no sudden discovery, but that he had known the truth for days. P. 142

17. A shudder passed up and down Nigel Stacey’s well-padded spine, and the whole bed shook as though an earthquake had struck the house. He nearly stopped breathing. He stared madly, striving to pierce the gloom, and he told himself that he was dreaming…. He must be dreaming. “Mr. Nemesis” was Inspector Cromwell, and Inspector Cromwell was dead, lying cold…. P.147

18. The cold sweat poured from Stacey as though he were a squeezed sponge. The ague which had attached him became intensified. His terror was so abject that he was on the point of fainting. P. 148

19. So entangled were his vocal cords, so paralyzed his larynx, that the cry, intended as a shout that would arouse the household, emerged only as a thin, reedy whisper. P. 148

20. Nigel Stacey trembled in every fat limb. He knew that the iron fetters which “Mr. Nemesis” had forged were gradually and slowly enfolding him in their deadly grip. At this very minute the mysterious “Mr. Nemesis” was watching…. Stacey knew that he dared not attempt to leave Netherton. All his recently formed plans went sky-high. He sank into chair, weary and exhausted, as though he had just walked twenty miles. He was still aching every limb from the effects of his alarming experience of the night. P.153

21. An idea occurred to his fevered brain, and he brought the car to a standstill less than a minute after he had started it. It was the sight of a concert telephone booth, on the board sidewalk, that had put the idea into his head. Pulling his eyes, he entered the booth and gave a number.P.159

22. He hung up, sweating, and got back into his car like a dazed man. P. 159

23. It was even longer vigil than one he had suffered in the longue. An hour passed…. Two hours…. Three hours….Stacey was camped, hungry, evil-tempered. His back was just solid ache, for he dared not give himself a moment’s rest. P. 161

24. He broke off. Stacey, snarling like some trapped animal, had made a sudden and desperate leap backwards and slightly to the side. His shoulder took the standard-lamp, and it went over with a crash, the electric bulb splintering to fragments and plugging the room into darkness. With a single bound, in spite of his manacled wrists, Stacey reached the half-open French windows. P. 178

Asyndeton – 1

1. “…we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” –John F. Kennedy

2. “We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be…” –Winston Churchill

3. “Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.” –General Douglas MacArthur

Polysyndeton – 1

1. “In years gone by, there were in every community men and women who spoke the language of duty and morality and loyalty and obligation.” –William F. Buckley

2. “[Football is] a way of life, really, to those particular people who are a part of it. It’s more than a game, and regardless of what level it’s played upon, it still demands those attributes of courage and stamina and coordinated efficiency and goes even beyond that for [it] is a means – it provides a mental and physical relaxation to everybody that watches it, like yourself.” –Vince Lombardi

3. “And the Germans will not be able to help themselves from imagining the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the Germans will be sickened by us. And the Germans will talk about us. And the Germans will fear us. And when the Germans close their eyes at night, and their subconscious tortures them for the evil they’ve done, it will be with thoughts of us that it tortures them with.” –Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), Inglourious Basterds

4. “Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war – not history’s forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government – not any other thing. We are the killers.” –Katherine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter

Attachment - 1

Climax – 2

1. IAGO: My friend is dead,
‘Tis done at your request. But let her live.
OTHELLO: Damn her, lewd minx! Oh, damn her, damn her!
Come, go with me apart. I will withdraw
To furnish me with some swift means of death
For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant. - (Othello by William Shakespeare)

2. JOHN PROCTOR: I have known her, sir. I have known her.
….
JOHN PROCTOR: She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance, and you must see it; I set myself entirely in your hands. I know you must see it now. - (The Crucible by Arthur Miller)

Anti-climax – 1

1. BORACHIO: Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer:
do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have
deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms
could not discover, these shallow fools have brought
to light: who in the night overheard me confessing
to this man how Don John your brother incensed me
to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into
the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero’s
garments, how you disgraced her, when you should
marry her: my villany they have upon record; which
I had rather seal with my death than repeat over
to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my
master’s false accusation; and, briefly, I desire
nothing but the reward of a villain. - (Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare)

2. Few months of life has he in store
As he to you will tell,
For still, the more he works, the more
Do his weak ankles swell.
My gentle Reader, I perceive,
How patiently you’ve waited,
And now I fear that you expect
Some tale will be related.

O Reader! had you in your mind
Such stores as silent thought can bring,
O gentle Reader! you would find
A tale in every thing.
What more I have to say is short,
And you must kindly take it:
It is no tale; but, should you think,
Perhaps a tale you’ll make it. - (“Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman” by William Wordsworth)

Simile – 5

1. My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. - (“Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare)

2. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. - (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)

3. The Radley Place fascinated Dill. In spite of our warnings and explanations it drew him as the moon draws water, but drew him no nearer than the light-pole on the corner, a safe distance from the Radley gate. - (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)

4. I wait, washed, brushed, fed, like a prize pig. - (The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood)

5. Fit as a fiddle

6. Bright as the sun

7. Sweating like a pig

8. White as a sheet

9. His heart was as cold as ice

10. Sleeping like a log

Periphrasis – 3

Antithesis – 2

1. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.” –John F. Kennedy Jr.

3. “We will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.” –Barack Obama

4. “Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.” –Winston Churchill

5. “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” –Abraham Lincoln

Litotes - 2

1. Once he’s led you to Achilles’ hut,
that man will not kill you—he’ll restrain
all other men. For he’s not stupid,
blind, or disrespectful of the gods.
He’ll spare a suppliant, treat him kindly. - (The Iliad by Homer, as translated by Ian Johnston)

2. Hildeburh had little cause
To credit the Jutes: son and brother,
She lost them both on the battlefield.
She, bereft and blameless, they
Foredoomed, cut down and spear-gored. She,
The woman in shock, Waylaid by grief,
Hoc’s daughter–How could she not
Lament her fate when morning came
And the light broke on her murdered dears? - (Beowulf as translated by Seamus Heaney)

3. CLAUDIUS: Young Fortinbras,
Holding a weak supposal of our worth
Or thinking by our late dear brother’s death
Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
Colleaguè d with the dream of his advantage,
He hath not failed to pester us with message
Importing the surrender of those lands
Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
To our most valiant brother. So much for him. - (Hamlet by William Shakespeare)