Figures of speech

They don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care

• pun

• understatement

• chiasmus

• paradox

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

• pun

• chiasmus

• understatement

• paradox

"Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love."

• pun

• chiasmus

• understament

• paradox

"Never let a fool kiss you--or a kiss fool you."

• pun

• chiasmus

• understatement

• paradox

Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?

• pun

• chiasmus

• understatement

• paradox

The reversing the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases. This rhetorical device is also referred to as reverse parallelism, antimetabole or syntactical inversion.

• pun

• chiasmus

• understatement

• paradox

A statement that may seem absurd or contradictory but yet can be true, or at least makes sense.

• pun

• chiasmus

• undersatement

• paradox

You can save money by spending it.

• pun

• chiasmus

• understatement

• paradox

“Men work together whether they work together or apart.”

• pun

• chiasmus

• understatement

• paradox

This is the beginning of the end.

• pun

• chiasmus

• understatement

• paradox