Distinguish between a) irony; b) zeugma; c) pun; d) hyperbole.
“So you’ve lost the book I gave you? Well, that’s wonderful!”
The car which picked me up on that particularly guilty evening was a Cadillac limousine about seventy-three blocks long.
The quickest way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
I watch you leave- you take your sweater, you take your time …
Find an instance of periphrasis:
A stage where every man must play a part.
We sat down at the table with two girls in yellow and three men, each one introduced to us Mr.Mumble.
Don’t use big words. They mean so little.
Gusts of wind whispered here and there.
Find an instance of inverted epithet:
He’s a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-nosed pea-cock.
He loved the after-swim salt-and-shine smell of her hair.
She was a faded white rabbit of a woman.
Don’t use big words. They mean so little.
Find an instance of oxymoron:
It was an open secret that Ray had been ripping his father in law off.
She was a giant of a woman.
Her painful shoes slipped off.
I watch you leave- you take your sweater, you take your time …
Find an instance of zeugma:
She’s been in a bed-room with one of the young Italians, Count Something.
The man looked a rater old forty-five, for he was already going grey.
Her painful shoes slipped off.
He had taken three weeks off and a ticket to Mentone.
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