Need help identifying devices

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Hello,

I reaaally need help analysing several literary devices. Maybe you could give me any ideas?

I’m analysing the film “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” (2014) and I need to find literary devices in it. By the way, I’m not a native speaker. In the following examples I’m giving my guesses:

  • …of perhaps the most unlikely genius the world has ever known. (Is the phrase in bold metonymy/hyperbole/personification or neither of them?)
  • Let’s just say, the Leaning Tower of Pisa wasn’t always leaning. (Could this be a pun? Or maybe epanalepsis?)
  • I’ll stay, I’ll heel, I’ll even shake hands. (Is this anaphora/parallelism or isocolon?)
  • If a boy can adopt a dog, I see no reason why a dog cannot adopt a boy. (Antimetabole or chiasmus?)
  • I think we can file this night under “Unqualified Success.” (Could this be a metaphor?)
  • Spoiler alert, King Tut dies young. (Could this be any kind of literary device?)
  • Old “Flip-Flop Ra,” we call him here in the underworld. (What about this flip-flop Ra?)
  • – Because I’m sitting here all day on my abbondanza! – I don’t think that means “chair” in Italian. (Could this insertion of a foreign word be any kind of literary device? I’m guessing it was not done without a reason…)
  • Are you ready to get on the field, Shermanus? (Also this one. The real name is Sherman.)
  • You may kiss the Grunion. (Also this modification of “You may kiss the bride”).

I’m not sure this is the right place to ask these questions… But I’m a little bit hopeless at this point.

Any kind of help would be welcome!

English Tutor Answered question May 6, 2019
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This is the right place, but only short answers are given.

English Tutor Answered question May 6, 2019
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