Leaping lizards, Lawrence! Let's leave!

Onomotopeoiea

If you truly love me, you'll buy me a Twix.

A balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.

When I walked my dog while listening to music, I inadvertently stepped in his "mess".

I was as tired as an English teacher who just graded 30 AP lang tests.

Anecdote

I've been to Nam', I know how hard it is to live there.

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special.

When told of the cruel trick which was played on all the new students, Bobby decided to not attend the new school.

Will I eat this Big Mac? I think so.

Oxymoron

Whenever you see her/his face it makes your heart ache.

A formal deductive argument made up of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.

Person 1: Did you check to see if we have any gas in the car?
Person 2: No, I just planned to go on a cross country road trip while pushing the car around.

She was breathtakingly beautiful, but he knew that she was a forbidden fruit.

Ad hominem argument

I've stubbed my toe walking to the kitchen in the dark before.... you should always hit a light.

The act or instance of placing two ideas close together or side by side, for the purpose of comparison or contrast.

The stench of the locker rooms leaped up and smacked me in the nose.

No one eats at that restaurant, it's to dang crowded.

Satire

I told him that if he didn't make a choice now everyone on the planet would instantly succumb to morbid obesity, and would not be around to flip his Krabby patties.

The classification of authors into a group and comparison of how an author is similar to other authors.

That dance was whack yo. The DJ didn't play anything to get us bumping.