Stylistic Devices in the English Language

I‘ve fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice; and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.”1
“You will have to be everywhere on time, looking perfect, with a happy-to-be-there attitude.”2
Metaphor
“Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me?.”3
“The light struggled through the cream-coloured silk blinds.”4
Metonymy
“Liberace once revealed that his gift was to play Tchaikovsky by leaving out the boring bits.”5
“Salvador Dali is what every woman needs to be adorable and cherished.”6
Simile
“My love for Linton is like a foliage in the woods: time will change it, I‘m well aware, as winter changes the trees.”7
“His eye alone, which glistened like a fiery star amid lowering clouds, was to be seen in its state of native wilderness.”8
Hyperbaly
“Bright lights, tall buildings, shiny sequins, and crowds of familiar faces.”9
“He possessed enough money to buy Switzereland”10
Oxymoron
“He began to pace the room, muttering terrible things to himself, till I was inclined to believe, as he said Joseph did, that conscience had turned his heart to an earthly hell.”11
“Do you remember the bed that sagged like a hammock, the room in Antwerp next to the toilets, the Irish bedroom thick with agonizing saints?…