Figure of speech
- To gossip is fault, to libel is a crime, to slander is a sin.- Climax
- O mischief, thou art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.- Personification
- They speak like saints and act like devils.- Simile
- How could he be a king, a soldier and a peon?- Anticlimax
- How high, his highness holds his haughty head.- Alliteration