allegory

alliteration

allusion

antithesis

apostrophe

caesura

consonance

enjambment

epic (Homeric) simile

imagery

inference

metaphor

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

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2. Donaghy, Erin
3. Wick, Laura
4. Philips, Madison

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2. Ellison, Rebecca
3. Rolon, Jeremiah

1. Clancy, Kevin
2. Berkowitz, Scott
3. Martucci, Noa
4. Rafferty, Ciara

1. Cunningham, Erica
2. Canny, Edward
3. Baratka, Marastella

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2. Amdur, Haley
3. DeLucia, Lara

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2. Johnson, Naala
3. Russo, Michael
4. Hallinan, Shannon

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2. Peach, Lulu
3. Ramos, Demetrios

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2. Neguse, Michael
3. Goebel, Brianna
4. Gangwani, Sumita

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2. Huff, Zachary
3. Marcuse, Monica

1. Duffin, Kaitlyn
2. Aghazarian, Christina
3. Bodine, Daniel

1. Ross, Brian
2. Monaghan, Lauren
3.  Stowell, Emily
4. Dorfman, Ely

Hamlet to his mother, after he kills Polonius:

“I will bestow him, and will answer well
The death I gave him. So, again, good night.
I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
One word more, good lady.”

OXYMORON

Emily Dickinson

‘Twas later when the summer went
Than when the cricket came,
And yet we knew that gentle clock
Meant nought but going home.
‘T was sooner when the cricket went

Than when the winter came,
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps esoteric time.

CONSONANCE

The revised manifesto at the end of Animal Farm:

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.

PARADOX

A section of a famous prayer: 

"Give us this day our daily bread."

SYNECDOCHE

The first stanza of "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath:

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.) 

TERCET

Odysseus blinds Polyphemus:

I drove my weight on it from above and bored it home like a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright's drill that men below, whipping the strap back and forth, whirl and the drill keeps twisting, never stopping --So we seized our stake with it fiery tip and bored it round and round in the giant's eye.

EPIC SIMILE

The speaker of Donne's "Sonnet X" confronts Death:

“Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”

Don Adriano makes several references to classical mythology and The Bible in Love's Labour's Lost: 

Love is a devil:
there is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so
tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was
Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit.
Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club;
and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier.

Wordsworth's sentences bleed across lines of poetry: 

It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free;
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility;
The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea;
Listen! The mighty Being is awake
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder―everlastinly.

ENJAMBMENT

Shakespeare places punctuation and pauses in the middle of lines of verse:

“I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
Commonly are; the want of which vain dew
Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have
That honorable grief lodged here which burns
Worse than tears drown….”

CAESURA

Coleridge repeats the F sound as an initial consonant in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”

ALLITERATION