Epithet

K. Mansfield

3. “They looked at hundreds of houses; they climed thousands of stairs; they inspected innumerable kitchens.”

S.Maugham

Here the climax is achieved by simple numerical increase.

Alliteration1. “So he sat and jawned, and gazed at the crowd crowding to the match at two o’clock, crowding back in the gloom at four o’clock…”

A. Bennett

Alliteration is the repetition of similar consonants at the beginning of neighbouring words.

2. She wrinkled her brows in a puzzled frown.

J. Galsworthy

The articulation of “r” is used to reinforce the expression.

3. “Forget and forgive”, she cried passionately.

J.London

4. But he was angry now, his nervousness lost in a swelling indignation at the ignorance, the intolerant stupidity of Chenkin’s accusation, and the acclamation with which the others had received it.

A.J.Cronin

Assonance

1. He wrote and wrote, never looking at the clock, filling sheet after sheet, until his head reeled.

A. J. Cronin

[ u – u – u – – I: – I: – e – I:]

Assonance – deliberate repetition of like sounding vowels in neighbouring words with a view to heightening their effect.

2. When he opened his eyes again he started, seeing something creeping swiftly up a tree.

D.H. Lawrence

[ai – a: – I: – I:]

Rhetorical Question

1. Could a man own anything prettier than this dining-table with its deep tints, the starry, soft-petalled roses, the ruby-coloured glass, and quaint silver furnishing; could a man own anything prettier than a woman who sat at it?

J. Galsworthy