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Allusion: Anna Didn't Like To Spend Money. She Was No, But She Seldom Purchased Anything Except The Bare Necessities
Allusion: Anna Didn't Like To Spend Money. She Was No, But She Seldom Purchased Anything Except The Bare Necessities
Anna didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities
Allusion :Charles Dickens' story 'A Christmas Carol
In the movie "Bridget Jones's Diary," Firth's character is named Mark Darcy
Allusion : Jane Austins Pride and Prejudice character
Ambiguity
Robert Frost's "To Earthward
Love at the lips was touch ;As sweet as I could bear ;And once that seemed too much I lived on air 1- The literal meaning of surviving by breathing 2- The expression of emotion
( A newspaper headline)
Amplification
Our Mutual Friend By: Charles Dickens
Mr. and Mrs. Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the Veneerings was spick and span new. All their furniture was new, all their friends were new, all their servants were new, their place was new, . . . their harness was new, their horses were new, their pictures were new, they themselves were new, they were as newly-married as was lawfully compatible with their having a bran-new baby, and if they had set up a great-grandfather ..
Anagram
Archaeologists = Goal is to search
Analogy
A is to B as C is to _____ (Aristotelian format) HAND : PALM : : FOOT : ____ Sweet as morning dew upon a rose There are plenty of fish in the sea Feeling like a fish out of water