Metaphor

…after the preliminary sparring over legalities… Simile:

...swept the arena like a prairie fire ...a palm fan like a sword...

Metonymy

...tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers...

The Christian believes that man came from above. ...below.

Hyperbole:

The trial that rocked the world

Ridicule:

Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted ...

Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.

Sarcasm:

There is some doubt about that.

Transferred epithet

Darrow had whisper throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder.

Antithesis

The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.

Assonance:

when bigots lighted faggots to burn...

Repetition:

The truth always wins...the truth...the truth... Pun:

Darwin is right --- inside.

A pun is a play on words, or rather a play on the form and meaning of words. It is not strictly a figure of speech, but because it relied heavily on metaphorical or figurative meanings of words for its effect, it if often included in lists of such figures.

a. Words or phrases having two or more distinct meanings. Homonyms.

Local carpenter seeks local dentist for trade of skills. \mine.\

Standing at the door and looking at the newly employed young secretary, the two colleagues talked to each other. \and too inexperienced. We ought to teach her what is right and what is wrong.\the other, \teach her what is wrong.\

For a church outreach visitation program, I was paired with a rather reserved woman. We knocked on one house’s front door. Thinking no one was home, we started to walk away. Just then, a man wrapped in a bath towel, dripping wet, appeared at the upstairs window. “We hope you can visit our church sometime,” my partner called up. “We’d like to see more of you.”

b. words having the same or almost same sound but differing in form and meaning. Homophones.

Seven days without water makes one weak.