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Alliteration

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Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers

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Allusion

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He was shocked how his nose didnt grow like Pinocchio’s

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Anaphora

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If my family moves to Maine then I will move to Maine

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Antithesis

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“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Muhammad Ali

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Antimetabole

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If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

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Archaic Diction

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“To thine own self be true.” Hamlet William Shakespeare

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Asyndeton

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“Suicide by race, by colour, by occupation, by sex, by seasons of the year, by the time of day.” - Double Indemnity

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Cumulative sentence

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I spotted a flock of geese flying overhead, honking and making their way to the lake.
Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/loose-sentence-examples.html#4Lt5IGsTu9UGRZJY.99

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Periodic sentence

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Whether it was peer pressure or her own idea, Mary tried out for the glee club and made it.
Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/periodic-sentence-examples.html#HVJROWviklXUfmcp.99

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Diction

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🙏🏻

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Horative sentence

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Go!Go! Do it again!

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Imperative sentence

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Please leave.

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Inversion

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How amazing this is

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Jux

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Young and old, good and bad, beautiful ugly

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Metaphor

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Broken heart

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Oxy

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Open secret, found missing, larger half

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ll

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You may respond by calling, visiting or e-mailing.

Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-parallelism.html#rxLDpWGLJOQC9DUL.99

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Personification

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The thunder grumbled like an old man

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RQ

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Do you hate me? Do pigs fly?

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Synedouche

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Look at his new wheels

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Syntax

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The girl jumped

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Zeugma

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“She opened her door and her heart to the orphan.” (Wunderland)
Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-zeugma.html#bgLIMZLPT4sDzEjq.99

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