Epithet

J. London

The author compares the daylight with a human being.

3. A see swept up the beach, licking around the trunks of the coconuts and subsiding almost at their feet.

J. London The author shows similarity between the sea and the animal Irony

1. The sight of his meekly retreating back must have further enraged Patsy Horan, for that worthy, dropping the table implements, sprang upon him.

J. London

2. The French, with no instinct for colonization, futile in their childish playgame of developing the resources of the island, were only too glad to see the English company succeed.

J. London

3. “Well”, thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs. How brave they’ll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house”(Which was very likely true)

L. Carroll

4. “…if you drink much from a bottle marked “poison”, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.”

L. Carroll

Zeugma

1. They grew frightened, sitting thus and facing their own apprehensions and a callous, tobacco-smoking audience.

J. London

2. He returned with an easier air to the table and his meal.H.G. Wells

3. The one martyr who might, perhaps, have paid him a visit and a fee did not show herself.

A. Bennett

4. She broke off under the strain of her illiteracy and an overloaded stomach.

A. Cronin

5. “What are you guys doing – having a supper and ladies’ night.”

A. Hailey

Metonymy

1. The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic cabman, while a black-bearded man in grey snapped up biscuit and cheese, drank Burton, and conversed in American with a policeman off duty. (sort of beer)

H.G. Wells