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PAGE PAGE 1 Identify the rhetorical figures in the following statement.1.? ?? ???In the suit of shabby gray.? ?(transferred epithet)2.? ?? ???We banged the tin, and bawled the hymns. (synecdoche)3.? ?? ???And thus we rust life’s iron chain degraded and alone. (metaphor)4.? ?? ???You are making the only breeze in Philadelphia. (pun)5.? ?? ???In the evening she wears soft rich colors. (metonymy)6.? ?? ???The young moon lies on her back tonight as her habits in the tropics. (personification)7.? ?? ???I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.(transferred epithet)8.? ?? ???The predicament of England seemed soaked in their bones. (metaphor)9.? ?? ???Britannia Rues the Waves. (Synecdoche)?10.? ?? ???Dr what of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges. (synecdoche)11.? ?? ???A concept of how things get written that throws very little light on London but a great deal on life.(metaphor)12.? ?? ???The difference is not like the difference between yearly models but like the difference between the horse and buggy and automobile.(simile)13.? ?? ???The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below. (antithesis)14.? ?? ???And shaven heads and feet of lead make a merry masquerade. (metonymy)15.? ?? ???And all, but lust, is turned to dust in Humanity’s machine. (metonymy)16.? ?? ???At that time, we will be long gone. (euphemism)17.? ?? ???There is more to this than a filthy purse string, Rutledge. (metonymy)18.? ?? ???Your clock is fast, Mr. Adams. I say we’re not yet ripe for independence. (metaphor)?19.? ?? ???And I enjoyed the cool support of the water. (transferred epithet)20.? ?? ?? ?Pog observed that not one of them was shooting this crippled walk. (transferred epithet)21.? ?? ???Passing from the August to the Prince of Wales in King’s barge, Victor Henry went from America to England and from peace to war.