Genon, Vedia A.

Semantics Class
May 21, 2020

1. Metaphor
 The victim’s heart swelled with a sea of tears.
 The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.
 The lawyer’s cotton candy words did not appeal to the judge’s taste.
 The accused pleaded for the victim’s forgiveness but her heart was cold
iron.
 Law is justice.

2. Simile
 Laws are like cobwebs, the small flies are caught, the great break through.
 The law is like the axle of a carriage; you can turn it wherever you please.
 Justice is like the Kingdom of God; it is not without us as a fact; it is within
us as a great yearning.
 Justice is like a north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve around it.
 Strict laws are like a steel bodice, good for growing limbs; but when the
joints are knit, they are not helps but burdens.

3. Synecdoche
 The evidence was lost with all hands.
 The hired hands do all the investigation.
 The boots guarded the area in case of invaders.
 John has a pretty boring job as one of the suits.
 The client has brought his lawyer a new set of wheels.

4. Metonymy
 “Lawyers, lend me your ears.” [Ears refers to full attention].
 Soon, that corrupt Senator will be in the big house. [The big house
refers to prison].
 Don’t be addicted to the bottle. [The bottle is a metonymy for the
word alcohol].
 Curfew for minors? There goes Big Brother again! [The term Big
Brother has entered the English lexicon as a metonymy for
government that interferes too much in private life.
 Fear gives wings. [Wings pertains to flight when someone thinks of
possibly losing his life, would leave the place, and hide somewhere
else.]

5. Antanaclasis
  And there's bars on the corners and bars on the heart. ( a lyric that uses
"bars" to refer to a place where you buy a drink, and to protective rails that block
access)
 Just because a record has a groove, don't make it in the groove ( he first
"groove" refers to the grooves etched into records that the needles of records run
through in order to then create sound. The second "groove" refers to making
people want to dance)
 "If you don't get it, you don't get it" (if you don't buy this newspaper, you won't
know what's going on.)
 The long cigarette that's long on flavor. (This cigarette is longer than
others and has a lot of flavor.)
 Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in ’t, and I would I were the
first that ever dissembled in such a gown. (The first "dissemble" here
means to "disguise," while the second means to "lie" or to "act
hypocritically.")

6. Personification
 The storm attacked the town with great rage.
 My life came screeching to a halt.
 The baseball screamed all the way into the outfield.
 The blizzard swallowed the town.
 The tsunami raced towards the coastline.

7. Hyperbole
 The lawyer was so busy that he was attending to a million calls
simultaneously.
 The old judge was older than the Himalayas.
 The opposing counsel at him, saying he had a pea-sized brain.
 John was called the elephant of the class for his clumsiness.
 He saw a man as tall a power pole.

8. Litotes
 They do not seem the happiest lawyer-couple around.
 The argument was not too bad.
 Your comments on politics are not useless.
 You are not as confident as you used to be.
 I cannot disagree with your point of view.

9. Irony
 One of the identical twins says to the other, "You're ugly!"
 I saw a fish drowning.
 Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Dignity is not one of them.
 Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
 Marriage is the leading cause of divorce.
10. Onomatopoeia
 The cash register popped open with a heart-warming ca-ching.
 The bird’s chirp filled the empty night air.
 Her heels clacked on the hardwood floor.
 The clanging pots and pans awoke the baby.
 If you want the red team to win, clap your hands right now!

11. Oxymoron
 This is another fine mess you have got us into.
 There is a real love hate relationship developing between the two of them.
 Suddenly the room filled with a deafening silence.
 The comedian was seriously funny.
 You are clearly confused by the situation you have found yourself in.

12. Paradox
 If there’s one thing that I know, it’s that I don’t know anything at all.
 The final rule you need to remember is to ignore all rules.
 The second sentence is false. The first sentence is true.
 This statement is a lie.
 I am a compulsive liar.

13. Anastrophe
 Patience you must have, my young Padawan.
 Left behind, no one will be.
 Bring him here. Question him we will.
 Powerful you have become. The dark side I sense in you.
 When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.

14. Asyndeton
 That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.”
 So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment.
 He comes, he sleeps, he goes. So the plot thickens.
 I came, I saw, I conquered.
 Humans need only three things to survive: sustenance, clothing, shelter.

15. Polysyndeton
 Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers.
 We have ships and men and money and stores.
 He ran and jumped and laughed for joy.
 If there be cords, or knives, Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I’ll not
endure it.
 “Where be your gibes now, or your gambols, or your songs?