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“The pen is mightier than the sword”.
(Written word is more important than force.)

“The White House will be making a decision today”.
Oxymoron
“The library was a help to the students”. An oxymoron is a literary device in which seemingly contradictory elements appear side by side.

“Give me a hand to finish these tasks please”.
Examples:

Onomatopoeia Living dead
Cruel kindness
Making haste slowly
Onomatopoeia uses words which phonetically sound like the sound Alone together
Bitter sweet
they are being used to describe. Onomatopoeia can be a powerful Awfully good
tool for both speakers and writers, as it allows the audience to have Deafening silence
Deceptively honest
some emotional involvement with the words being used. Good grief
Lead balloon
Examples: Plastic glasses
Pretty ugly
Unbiased opinion
a-ha growl swoosh Parallelism
ah-choo grunt thud
bam gurgle thump Parallelism is a rhetorical device in which parts of sentences are given a similar form, thus
bash gush tweet giving a definite pattern.

bingle hiss warble Examples:
boom jingle whiff Easy come, easy go.
clang kerplunk whip Like father, like son.
clank meow whisper What goes around comes around.
“To err is human, to forgive divine.” (Alexander Pope)
clap moo whizz “I don’t want to live on in my work. I want to live on in my apartment.” (Woody Allen)
clatter mumble whoosh
click murmur wow Paronomasia
clink neigh
cluck oink Paronomasia is also known as a pun. It is a device in which a word is used in different senses
cock-a-doodle- purr or words with similar sounds are used to achieve a desired effect, often dual meaning.

doo quack Examples:
cough ribbit “Well, I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”.
cuckoo screech (Tom Waits in “fernwood2Night”, 1977)
ding slap
drip splash “Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion”.
drizzle spray (Spike Milligan)
flutter sprinkle
gasp squirt
giggle swish