Rhetorical devices

3. (*direct opposites) No pain, no gain.
4. Five years ago, I went to the store and met some clowns. Those clowns gave me the advice I am sharing with you now.
6. The treaty led to a violent peace.
7. The beautiful valley spread its arms out and embraced us.
9. The plate exploded into a million pieces.
10. To my dog, the park is the Garden of Eden
13. Can we really know what our place in the universe is? We have asked ourselves this question for millennia.
14. Ashley said it was a beautiful day while drying off from the drenching rain. (Ashley ironically referred to poor weather as “beautiful.”)
15. *refers to making a statement that seems self-contradictory or impossible but actually makes sense (e.g. Youth is wasted on the young)
16. (expl. repetition of consonants or consonant sounds. e.g. Mike likes Ike’s bike.
17. When Senator Jackson said “numbers don’t lie,” he forgot that his first name wasn’t “Numbers.”
18. Oh, yeah, he is a great guy. A great guy who took the last slice of pizza.
20. Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you are going to get.

1. He was a wolf among sheep.
2. *meaning loud sounds e.g. The gnashing of teeth and screeching of bats kept me awake.
5. The cricket ball struck him in a sensitive area.
6. The thunder boomed and the lightning crashed.
8. The time ticked tentatively by
11. I came, I saw, I conquered.
12. She and Lee see the bees in the tree.
17. It was as hot as a desert this morning.
19. The farmer tried to get his cows to get along, but they insisted on having a beef with each other.