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English, 27.03.2021 05:20 robertrkumar1

S = Simile M = Metaphor
P = Personification
R = Rhetorical Question
ANT = Antithesis
H = Hyperbole
AN = Anaphora
A = Analogy

There is one example of each device.

Examples
#1: “Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?”
-Patrick Henry, “Speech at the Virginia Convention”

#2: “Besides, the general temper of the Colonies, towards a British government will be like that of a youth who is nearly out of his time; they will care very little about her”
-Thomas Paine, “Common Sense”

#3: “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.”
-Patrick Henry, “Speech at the Virginia Convention”

#4: “He has refused his Assent to Laws...He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance...He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people…” Thomas Jefferson, “Declaration of Independence”

#5: “They [navies and armies] are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging,”
-Thomas Jefferson, “Declaration of Independence”

#6: “Give me liberty or give me death!”
-Patrick Henry, “Speech at the Virginia Convention”

#7: “It is now the interest of America to provide for herself. She hath already a large and young family, whom it is more her duty to take care of, than to be granting away her property to support a power who is become a reproach to the names of men and Christians.” –Thomas Paine, “Common Sense”

#8: “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
-Thomas Paine, “Common Sense”

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