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1.
hyperbole
1) P1 Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for
without it we should die of vexation.
2) P3 I must confess that I always … those “as soon as
my head touches the pillow” fellows.
3) P7 This very night I will dismiss such trivial phantasies
as jumping sheep and crooked pictures, and evoke the phantom
of a crushing, stupendous Bore.
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2.
metaphor
1) P3 I used to read, … thanks to their “iron wills,”
could lie down and plunge themselves immediately into
deep sleep, …
2) P3 I had overlooked the necessity of having an “iron
will,” … this peculiar metallic quality.
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3.
personification (P3,6)
1) P3 It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy
mistress, …
2) P5 I have herded imaginary sheep until they insisted
on turning themselves into white bears or blue pigs, …
3) P6 Discussing the question, … sleep drew the curtain.
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4.
onomatopoeia
1) P1 Between chime
and chime of the clock …
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5.
similes
1) P2 If it be true
that our thoughts and mental images are perfectly tangible
things, like our books and pictures, to the inhabitants
of the next world, …
2) P3 It would be worse than beating an anvil with a sledge-hammer.
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6.
synecdoche
1) P7 “But there is
a man in my office, a Mr. H., who proses it away from
morning to night, …
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7.
transferred epithet
1) P1 I stare at the reproachfully
blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused,
…
2) P3 … and I would pass ours in tormenting sleeplessness.
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8.
parallelism
1) P4 … for even after the most eventful
day, there is no comparing notes with them, no midnight
confidence, no casting up the balance of the day’s pleasure
and pain.
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9.
rhetorical questions
1) P3 Who would want to remonstrate
and argue with them?
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10.
analogy
1) P3 It is not so with me, to whom
sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency
and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning
make the prize light.”
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