Examples of All Notes Flashcards
“I didn’t have any bus fare, but fortunately some good Samaritan helped me out!”
“You’re acting like such a Scrooge!”
Allusion
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Argumentation
Aesop’s Fables
Allegory
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n.”
Antithesis
“Busy old fool, unruly Sun”
“Ain’t - am not”
Colloquialism
“Stench, smell, aroma, scent, odor”
“Frugal, economical, stingy, cheap”
Connotation
“Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore.”
“Peter Piper picked a pack of pickle peppers.”
Consonance
“Her eyes were lasers, boring a hole through me. Her ears were smoking, and her hair was on fire”
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Caricature
“All for one and one for all.”
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”
Aphorism
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.”
“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as naught; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.”
Apostrophe
“He is a rotten, dirty, terrible, trudging, stupid dude!”
“Klarissa Klein drives an old, grumbling Cadillac which has a crumpled bumper and screaming, honking horn.”
Cacophony
“Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South.”
“I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;
And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;
And how, once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped for her,
And she balanced in the delight of her thought … “
Enumeration
“That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet”
“Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Analogy
“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”
“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true.”
Parallelism
“Oh, I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts’ secrets, Igor. Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished.”
Anecdote
“I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.”
“As I afterwards learned, the poor scrivener, when told that he must be conducted to the Tombs, offered not the slightest obstacle, but in his pale, unmoving way, silently acquiesced.”
Metonymy
“Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smokestacks and antennae crown the cities!”
“The apartment was on the top floor—a small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath.”
Anaphora
“Where now? Who now? When now?”
“The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood on the little rise across the creek — now that, too, was gone …”
Epistrophe
“This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely…”
“Call up her father.
Rouse him. Make after him, Poison his delight,
Proclaim him in the streets. Incense her kinsmen,
And, though he in a fertile climate dwell…”
Asyndeton
“Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly–mostly–let them have their whiteness.”
“And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had.”
Polysyndeton
“The Eyes around – had wrung them dry –
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset – when the King
Be witnessed – in the Room –”
“This is flesh I’m talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I’m telling you.”
Synecdoche
“Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves,
With wild thyme and the gadding vine o’ergrown,
And all their echoes mourn”
“What light from yonder window breaks?”
Syntax
“I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”
““It rained a bit more than usual.” – Describing an area being flooded by heavy rainfall.”
Understatement
“You can’t demonstrate that there aren’t Martians living in caves on the surface of Mars, so it is sensible for me to accept there are.”
“If you don’t vote for this applicant, you must be a Communist.”
“If we permit gay individuals to get married, what’s next? Permitting people to marry their dogs?”
Fallacy
“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
Adage
“You boldly look forward, isn’t it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.”
Pedantic
“Hear the tolling of the bells–
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
Syntactical Inversion
“Christmas Eve afternoon we scrape together a nickel and go to the butcher’s to buy Queenie’s traditional gift, a good gnawable beef bone.”
“My father, a fat, funny man with beautiful eyes and a subversive wit, is trying to decide which of his eight children he will take with him to the county fair.”
Apposition
“All animals are equal but a few are more equal than others.”
Didactic
“Oh stay! three lives in one flea spare
Where we almost, yea more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage-bed and marriage-temple is…”
“The broken heart is a damaged china pot.”
Conceit
“Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength …
“No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.”
Coherence
Father: “We can’t go on vacation this summer.”
Son: “Yeah, great! That’s what I expected.”
– The son is being very sarcastic
Tone
“So we may well hear from a whole chorus of naysayers. And to all of them I have only one response: we cannot afford to wait. We cannot afford to let the homes and schools and businesses throughout America wait. Not when we have seen the future. We have seen what high capacity broadband can do for education and for our economy. We must act today to create an environment where all competitors have a fair shot at bringing high capacity bandwidth to consumers—especially residential consumers. And especially residential consumers in rural and underserved areas.”
Counterargument
“But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.”
Claim
“‘Would you write your name for us?’
he asked. ‘Clearly now, so the jury can see you do it.’
Mr. Ewell wrote on the back of the envelope and looked up complacently to see Judge Taylor staring at him as if he were some fragrant gardenia in full bloom on the witness stand, to see Mr. Gilmer half-sitting, half-standing at his table. The jury was watching him, one man was leaning forward with his hands over the railing.
‘What’s so interestin‘?’ he asked.
‘You’re left-handed, Mr. Ewell,’ said Judge Taylor.”
Key phrase: “You’re left-handed, Mr. Ewell”
Evidence
“OEDIPUS: To Delphi, and Apollo sent me back
Baulked of the knowledge that I came to seek.
But other grievous things he prophesied,
Woes, lamentations, mourning, portents dire;
To wit I should defile my mother’s bed
And raise up seed too loathsome to behold,
And slay the father from whose loins I sprang.”
Prophecy
“The weather today will be sunny with clouds. There is a 15% chance of rain today.”
Prediction
“brokenhearted and forlorn she waited till the end of her days for his return” could also be “for his return, brokenhearted and forlorn, waited she till the end of her days”
Periodic Placement
“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
Paradox
The Wizard of Oz: the characters already have what they are asking for from the wizard
Hansel and Gretel: the witch, who intended to eat Hansel ad Gretel, is trapped by the children in her own oven
Irony
“[I]n Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you’re taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.”
Parenthesis
I did not attend the funeral, but I sent a letter saying I approved of it.
“A bolt of lightning in a huge copper conductor. I thought you lived in a school?”
Sardonic
Shrek
Political Cartoons
Alice in Wonderland
Satire
A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout…A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.
Polemical
“I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish Wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes…”
Ambiguity
Love Interest
Hero
Villain
Best Friend
Archetype
