2. What is antithesis?

3. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

4. Antithesis Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in one sentence or phrase. Pronunciation: an-TITH-uh-sis

5. Antithesis “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...”Charles Dickens – The Tale of Two Cities

6. Antithesis "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."(Martin Luther King, Jr., speech at St. Louis, 1964)

7. Make Your Own Antithesis It was the best day... He was a foolish boy...

8. Let’s get back to some music

9. The Proclaimers “But I would walk 500 milesAnd I would walk 500 moreJust to be the man who walked 1,000 milesTo fall down at your door”(The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles))

10. Hyperbole Exaggeration used for emphasis Pronunciation: hi-PURR-buh-lee

11. Hyperbole "Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together."(Kent Brockman, The Simpsons)

12. Make Your Own Hyperbole I am so tired... I was so hungry... The class went for...

13. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers... What is this?

14. Alliteration Consonant sounds at the beginning of words are repeated. Pronunciation: ah-lit-err-RAY-shun

15. "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife.“ (advertising slogan for Country Life butter)

16. Alliteration

17. Make Your Own Write a sentence with alliteration. Not every word have to start with the same consonant sound, just lots of them.

18. Pun "When it pours, it reigns."(slogan of Michelin tires) “When it rains, it pours’”

19. Pun A play on words Different senses of the same word, or Different senses of similar sounding words

20. Pun

21. Pun A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He sidles up to the bar and announces: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.“ Shot my paw Shot my pa

22. What is the pun here?

23. What is the pun and reference?

24. What is the pun?

25. What is the pun and reference?

26. Pun Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were cold so they lit a fire in the craft. It sank, proving that you can't have your kayak and heat it, too. “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.”

27. Pun WARNING: Using puns rarely.

28. Antimetabole Pronunciation: an-tee-meh-TA-bo-lee

29. Antimetabole "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us.“ (Malcolm X)

30. Antimetabole The second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order (A-B-C, C-B-A).

31. Antimetabole "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."(A. J. Liebling)

32. Antimetabole "You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."(Rad Bradbury)

33. Write one of your own, own one that you write. Create just one of your own examples of antimetabole