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Please help identify rhetorical devices, thank you

Please help identify rhetorical devices, thank you-example-1
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1. I need to go and powder my nose. Euphemism

2. A: You promised me that you would not try to make me change my mind.

B: I lied... Irony

3. This is an original copy of the letter. Oxymoron

4. (in a lifeboat) We're in a bit of a pickle. There's no more water. Meiosis

5. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.. Rule of Three

6. Here is my humble home. Bathos

7. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.. Antithesis

8. Government of the people, by the people, for the people.. Rule of Three

9. An instrument called a fleame was used to bleed the horse.. Euphemism

10. I'm starving. Hyperbole

11. The wind moaned through the empty house. Personification

12. Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand as a sheep. Juxtaposition

13. The school was in close proximity to the explosion. Tautology.

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