Figures of Speech (Rhetoric) Flashcards
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Alliteration
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Using words that start with the same letter in a sentence.
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Polyptoton
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Repeated use of one word as different parts of speech or in different grammatical forms.
Varied Case Usage
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Antithesis
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Start with a simple statement, then add an unexpected inversion.
The basis formula of antithesis is “X is Y, and not X is not Y.”
Opposites for Contrast
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Merism
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Where you don’t say what you’re talking about, and instead name all of its parts.
The Whole Divided into Parts
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Blazon
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Making a list of the beloved’s body parts and attaching similes to them (a form of extended merism).
The Dismemberment of the Beloved
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Synaesthesia
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A rhetorical device in which sense is described as another.
One Sense Describes Another
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Aposiopesis
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Trailing off. In English, it means use of ellipses or an em dash.
Sudden Silence (Ellipses/Em dash)
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Hyperbaton
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Putting words in an odd order.
Unexpected Word Order
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Anadiplosis
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Taking the last word of a clause and making it the first word in the next clause.
Reduplicated Word
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Periodic Sentence
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A big sentence that is not complete grammatically before the final clause or phrase.
Long, Suspenseful Sentence
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Hypotaxis
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Writing with unnaturally long sentences, generally with an excess of subordinate clauses.
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Parataxis
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Writing with short simple sentences.
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Define the figure:
Diacope
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A verbal sandwich: a word or phrase is repeated after a brief interruption.
Verbal Sandwich (ABA Unit, alt.: AABA unit)
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Define the figure:
Rhetorical Question
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A question that requires no answer, usually where the answer is too obvious to be stated.
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Define the figure:
Erotesis
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Type of rhetorical question.
A question that’s not really a question at all.
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Define the figure:
Epiplexis
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Type of rhetorical question.
A lament or insult asked as a question.
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Define the figure:
Anacoenosis
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Type of rhetorical question.
The sort of question where a particular audience will respond in a particular expected way, a leading question.
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Define the figure:
Hypophora
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Type of rhetorical question.
A rhetorical question that is immediately answered aloud, usually by the person who asked it.
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Define the figure:
Catechism
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Type of rhetorical question.
A series of questions and answers about religion that you need to memorize.
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Define the figure:
Subjectio
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Type of rhetorical question.
A series of questions asked by someone who already knows the answer, in a manner which asserts the asker’s authority and belittles the listener’s.
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Define the figure:
Aporia
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Type of rhetorical question.
A rhetorical question in which the questioner genuinely doesn’t know the answer.
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Define the figure:
Unanswerable rhetorical question
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Type of rhetorical question.
The sort where there is no answer, the sort where the questioner does not know the answer, does not expect anyone to know the answer, and does not expect to be informed.
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Define the figure:
Procatalepsis
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Type of rhetorical question
The arguer foresees a possible objection to his/her argument, asks a question posing the objection, and immediately answers it.
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Define the figure:
Hendiadys
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Take an adjective and a noun, and change the adjective into another noun.
Two for One
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Epistrophe
Ending sentences, phrases, or paragraphs with the same word or phrase.
End Refrain
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Tricolon
We see a pair and see a pattern. But add another word and get a tricolon.
Three in a Row (Rule of 3s)
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Epizeuxis
Repeating a word immediately in exactly the same sense.
Triplet (The No No No or Yes Yes Yes)
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Syllepsis
When one word is used in two (or more) incongruous ways.
Taking Together
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# Define the figure:
Isocolon
Two clauses or sentences that are grammatically parallel, two sentences that are structurally the same.
Parallelism
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Enallage
A deliberate grammar mistake.
Intentional Grammar Mistake
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Zeugma
A series of clauses which use the same verb.
Yoking Together
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Paradox
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition.
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# Define the figure:
Veridical paradox
A phrase or statement that appears impossible, but is actually quite simple; i.e., a simple thought described in a surprising, paradoxical way.
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Pun paradox
Word play paradox.
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True paradox
A paradox that describes something impossible (except in language).
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Chiasmus
Where the words of the first half are mirrored in the second half.
Verbal Symmetry (ABBA)
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Assonance
Repeating a vowel sound.
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# Define the figure:
The Fourteenth Rule
Using numbers can make just about anything sound ancient, significant, and mysterious.
Numbers are Mysterious
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Catachresis
When a sentence is so startingly wrong that it's right.
Strange Usage, Jazz Grammar
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# Define the figure:
Litotes
Affirming something by denying its opposite. It’s a form of understatement-by-negative.
Ironic Understatement
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# Define the figure:
Synecdoche
The extreme form of metonymy, where you become one of your body parts. You are your feet, your lips, or your liver.
A Part Represents the Whole
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# Define the figure:
Historical synecdoche
A subset of synecdoches, where one part of the story stands for the whole things, not because it’s a symbol of it, but because it’s part of it.
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Metonymy
When two things are connected because they are really physically connected.
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Transferred epithets
When an adjective is applied to the wrong noun.
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Pleonasm
The use of unneeded words that are superfluous and unnecessary in a sentence that doesn't require them.
Verbiage
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# Define the figure:
Tiny pleonasm
Unnecessary/ungrammatical extra words seeping in, making a subtle pleonasm.
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# Define the figure:
Lazy pleonasm
The fake sort of language that advertisers use, making language more redundant and content free than it otherwise would be.
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# Define the figure:
Literary pleonasm
Lovely pleonasm (excess verbiage) used for emphasis and amplification.
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# Define the figure:
Epanalepsis
When you end where you began a sentence (repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and end of a sentence or clause to emphasize circularity).
Circularity
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Personification
The representation of an abstract quality in human form.
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Hyperbole
Exaggeration.
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Adynaton
An impossibility, which means "this is the case," i.e., this is how it is.
The Never Ever Ever Statement
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Prolepsis
Using the pronoun before saying what it refers to.
The Pronoun Goes First
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Congeries
Latin for heap, and in rhetoric it applies to any piling of adjectives or nouns in a list.
Lengthy List
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# Define the figure:
Scesis Onomaton
Sentences without a main verb.
Verbless Sentence
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Anaphora
Starting every sentence with the same words.
Repeated Beginnings
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Using words that start with the same letter in a sentence.
Alliteration
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Repeated use of one word as different parts of speech or in different grammatical forms.
Varied Case Usage
Polyptoton
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Identify the figure from the definition:
Start with a simple statement, then add an unexpected inversion.
The basis formula is "X is Y, and not X is not Y."
Opposites for Contrast
Antithesis
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Identify the figure from the definition:
Where you don't say what you're talking about, and instead name all of its parts.
The Whole Divided into Parts
Merism
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Identify the figure from the definition:
Making a list of the beloved's body parts and attaching similes to them (a form of extended merism).
The Dismemberment of the Beloved
Blazon
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Identify the figure from the definition:
A rhetorical device in which sense is described as another.
One Sense Describes Another
Synaesthesia
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Trailing off. In English, it means use of ellipses or an em dash.
Sudden Silence (Ellipses/Em dash)
Aposiopesis
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Putting words in an odd order.
Unexpected Word Order
Hyperbaton
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Taking the last word of a clause and making it the first word in the next clause.
Reduplicated Word
Anadiplosis
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A big sentence that is not complete grammatically before the final clause or phrase.
Long, Suspenseful Sentence
Periodic Sentence
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Writing with unnaturally long sentences, generally with an excess of subordinate clauses.
Hypotaxis
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Writing with short simple sentences.
Parataxis
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A verbal sandwich: a word or phrase is repeated after a brief interruption.
Verbal Sandwich (ABA Unit, alt.: AABA unit)
Diacope
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A question that requires no answer, usually where the answer is too obvious to be stated.
Rhetorical Question
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Type of rhetorical question.
A question that's not really a question at all.
Erotesis
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Type of rhetorical question.
A lament or insult asked as a question.
Epiplexis
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Type of rhetorical question.
The sort of question where a particular audience will respond in a particular expected way, a leading question.
Anacoenosis
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Type of rhetorical question.
A rhetorical question that is immediately answered aloud, usually by the person who asked it.
Hypophora
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Type of rhetorical question.
A series of questions and answers about religion that you need to memorize.
Catechism
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Type of rhetorical question.
A series of questions asked by someone who already knows the answer, in a manner which asserts the asker's authority and belittles the listener's.
Subjectio
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Type of rhetorical question.
A rhetorical question in which the questioner genuinely doesn't know the answer.
Aporia
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Type of rhetorical question.
The sort where there is no answer, the sort where the questioner does not know the answer, does not expect anyone to know the answer, and does not expect to be informed.
Unanswerable rhetorical question
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Type of rhetorical question
The arguer foresees a possible objection to his/her argument, asks a question posing the objection, and immediately answers it.
Procatalepsis
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Take an adjective and a noun, and change the adjective into another noun.
Two for One
Hendiadys
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Ending sentences, phrases, or paragraphs with the same word or phrase.
End Refrain
Epistrophe
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We see a pair and see a pattern. But add another word and get this figure.
Three in a Row (Rule of 3s)
Tricolon
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Repeating a word immediately in exactly the same sense.
Epizeuxis
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When one word is used in two (or more) incongruous ways.
Taking Together
Syllepsis
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Two clauses or sentences that are grammatically parallel, two sentences that are structurally the same.
Parallelism
Isocolon
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A deliberate grammar mistake.
Intentional Grammar Mistake
Enallage
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A series of clauses which use the same verb.
Yoking Together
Zeugma
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A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition.
Paradox
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A phrase or statement that appears impossible, but is actually quite simple; i.e., a simple thought described in a surprising, paradoxical way.
Veridical paradox
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Word play paradox.
Pun paradox
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A paradox that describes something impossible (except in language).
True paradox
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Where the words of the first half are mirrored in the second half.
Verbal Symmetry (ABBA)
Chiasmus
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Repeating a vowel sound.
Assonance
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Using numbers can make just about anything sound ancient, significant, and mysterious.
Numbers are Mysterious
The Fourteenth Rule
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When a sentence is so startingly wrong that it's right.
Strange Usage, Jazz Grammar
Catachresis
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Affirming something by denying its opposite. It’s a form of understatement-by-negative.
Ironic Understatement
Litotes
97
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The extreme form of metonymy, where you become one of your body parts. You are your feet, your lips, or your liver.
A Part Represents the Whole
Synecdoche
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A subset of synecdoches, where one part of the story stands for the whole things, not because it’s a symbol of it, but because it’s part of it.
Historical synecdoche
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When two things are connected because they are really physically connected.
Metonymy
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When an adjective is applied to the wrong noun.
Transferred epithets
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The use of unneeded words that are superfluous and unnecessary in a sentence that doesn't require them.
Verbiage
Pleonasm
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Unnecessary/ungrammatical extra words seeping in, making a subtle pleonasm.
Tiny pleonasm
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The fake sort of language that advertisers use, making language more redundant and content free than it otherwise would be.
Lazy pleonasm
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Lovely pleonasm (excess verbiage) used for emphasis and amplification.
Literary pleonasm
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When you end where you began a sentence (repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and end of a sentence or clause to emphasize circularity).
Circularity
Epanalepsis
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The representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Personification
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Exaggeration.
Hyperbole
108
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An impossibility, which means "this is the case," i.e., this is how it is.
The Never Ever Ever Statement
Adynaton
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Using the pronoun before saying what it refers to.
The Pronoun Goes First
Prolepsis
110
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Latin for heap, and in rhetoric it applies to any piling of adjectives or nouns in a list.
Lengthy List
Congeries
111
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Sentences without a main verb.
Verbless Sentence
Scesis Onomaton
112
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Starting every sentence with the same words.
Repeated Beginnings
Anaphora
113
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"The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold,
Purple the sails, and so perfumèd that
The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes."
Alliteration
114
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“Curiosity killed the cat.”
Alliteration
115
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“A miss is as good as a mile.”
Alliteration
116
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“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.”
Alliteration
117
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“She’s right as rain.”
Alliteration
118
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“It takes two to tango.”
Alliteration
119
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“Cool as a cucumber.”
Alliteration
120
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“Dead as a doornail.”
Alliteration
121
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The Pickwick Papers
Alliteration
122
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A Christmas Carol
Alliteration
123
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Sense and Sensibility
Alliteration
124
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Pride and Prejudice
Alliteration
125
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Where’s Waldo?
Alliteration
126
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“He knows which side of his bread is buttered.”
Alliteration
127
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“Ban the bomb.”
Alliteration
128
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“Burn your bra.”
Alliteration
129
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“Power to the people.”
Alliteration
130
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“It’s enough to get your goat.”
Alliteration
131
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“Please Please Me”
Polyptoton
132
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“Nothing you can do that can’t be done
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung”
Polyptoton
133
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“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.”
Polyptoton
134
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“Is this the dagger that I see before me,
The handle towards my hand?”
Polyptoton
135
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“Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle:
I am no traitor’s uncle; and that word “grace”
In an ungracious mouth is but profane.”
Polyptoton
136
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“But me no buts.”
Polyptoton
137
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“Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
Polyptoton
138
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“I have been a stranger in a strange land.”
Polyptoton
139
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“Piper, pipe that song again.”
Polyptoton
140
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“This one step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Polyptoton, Antithesis
141
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“The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
Antithesis
142
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“If a man knows he’s a gentleman, he knows quite enough. If he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.”
Antithesis
143
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“Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one.”
Antithesis
144
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“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind; men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”
Antithesis
145
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“United we stand, divided we fall.”
Antithesis
146
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“Those who do, can; those who can’t, teach.”
Antithesis
147
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“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
Antithesis
148
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“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”
Antithesis, Anaphora
149
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”
Antithesis, Anaphora
150
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“Ladies and gentlemen”
Merism
151
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“Night and day”
Merism
152
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“Cannon to right of them, / Cannon to left of them, Cannon to the front of them”
Merism
153
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"I, ______, take you, ______, to be my wedded wife/husband, and I do promise and covenant, before God and these witnesses, to be your loving and faithful husband/wife, in plenty and want, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live."
Merism
154
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“Loud colors”
Synaesthesia
155
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“Bright melodies”
Synaesthesia
156
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“Dark rumblings”
Synaesthesia
157
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“Silky voice”
Synaesthesia
158
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“Harmonious colors”
Synaesthesia
159
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“A gravelly voice”
Synaesthesia
160
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“Warm colors of a painting”
Synaesthesia
161
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“She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.”
Synaesthesia
162
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“Music that stinks to the ear”
Synaesthesia
163
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“It smelled like victory.”
Synaesthesia
164
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“No, Percy, thou art dust
And food for…”
Aposiopesis
165
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“No, you unnatural hags,
I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall… I will do such things…”
Aposiopesis
166
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“Clean your room or else.”
Aposiopesis
167
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“Have fire in this garret before night or—”
Aposiopesis
168
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“Speaking of the Devil…”
Aposiopesis
169
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“When in Rome…”
Aposiopesis
170
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“Out of the mouth of babes…”
Aposiopesis
171
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“Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage…”
Hyperbaton
172
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“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”
Hyperbaton
173
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“We glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope, and hope maketh man not ashamed.”
Anadiplosis
174
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“The love of wicked men converts to fear;
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death”
Anadiplosis
175
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“For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime”
Anadiplosis
176
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“But O the heavy change now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return.”
Anadiplosis
177
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“The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor.”
Anadiplosis
178
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“If the soup had been as warm as the wine, and the wine as old as the fish, and the fish as young as the maid, and the maid as willing as the hostess, it would have been a very good meal.”
Anadiplosis, Periodic Sentence
179
Identify the figure from the example:
“This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in a silver sea
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Feared by their breed and famous for their birth,
Renownèd for their deeds as far from home
For Christian service and true chivalry
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry
Of the world's ransom, blessèd Mary's son.
This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out -- I die pronouncing it --
Like to a tenement or pelting farm.”
Periodic Sentence, Congeries
180
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“Every breath you take,
Every move you make,
Every bond you break,
Every step you take,
I’ll be watching you.”
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Periodic Sentence
181
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“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
Hypotaxis
182
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“Bond. James Bond.”
Diacope
183
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“Burn, baby, burn”
Diacope
184
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“Fly, my pretties, fly!”
Diacope
185
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“Events, my dear boy, events.”
Diacope
186
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“Crisis? What crisis?”
Diacope
187
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“You will, Oscar. You will.”
Diacope
188
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“From sea to shining sea”
Diacope
189
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“Sunday bloody Sunday”
Diacope
190
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“O Captain! My captain!”
Diacope
191
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“Human, all too human”
Diacope
192
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“From harmony, from heavenly harmony…”
Diacope
193
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“Beauty, real beauty ends where intellectual expression begins…”
Diacope
194
Identify the figure from the example:
“Ignorance, Madam. Pure ignorance.”
Diacope
195
Identify the figure from the example:
“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
Diacope
196
Identify the figure from the example:
“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Diacope
197
Identify the figure from the example:
“Dead, dead, long dead,
And my heart is a handful of dust.”
Diacope
198
Identify the figure from the example:
“Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty we are free at last.”
Diacope
199
Identify the figure from the example:
“Love me. Love me. Say that you love me.”
Diacope
200
Identify the figure from the example:
“To be or not to be.”
Diacope
201
Identify the figure from the example:
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Erotesis (rhetorical question)
202
Identify the figure from the example:
“And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountain green?”
Erotesis (rhetorical question), Synecdoche
203
Identify the figure from the example:
“How cute is that koala?”
Erotesis (rhetorical question)
204
Identify the figure from the example:
“What’s the point?”
Epiplexis (rhetorical question)
205
Identify the figure from the example:
“Why go on?”
Epiplexis (rhetorical question)
206
Identify the figure from the example:
“How could you?”
Epiplexis (rhetorical question)
207
Identify the figure from the example:
“What's a girl gotta do to get a piece of toast around here?”
Epiplexis (rhetorical question)
208
Identify the figure from the example:
“What makes your heart so hard?”
Epiplexis (rhetorical question)
209
Identify the figure from the example:
“Why died I not in the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?”
Epiplexis (rhetorical question)
210
Identify the figure from the example:
“Why, God, why?”
Epiplexis (rhetorical question), Diacope
211
Identify the figure from the example:
“Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?”
Epiplexis (rhetorical question)
212
Identify the figure from the example:
“Who do you trust to run the economy?”
Anacoenosis (rhetorical question)
213
Identify the figure from the example:
“Would you buy a used car from this man?”
Anacoenosis (rhetorical question)
214
Identify the figure from the example:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Hypophora (rhetorical question)
215
Identify the figure from the example:
“You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.”
Hypophora (rhetorical question)
[also: Anaphora, Tricolon]
216
Identify the figure from the example:
Jules: Describe what Marsellus Wallace looks like!
Brett: What?
Jules: Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!
Brett: H-H-He's black…
Jules: Go on!
Brett: He's bald...!
Jules: Does he look like a bitch?
Brett: What?
Jules: [shoots Brett in the shoulder] DOES HE... LOOK... LIKE A BITCH?
Brett: No!
Jules: Then why you tryin' to fuck him like a bitch, Brett?
Brett: I didn't...!
Jules: Yes, you did. Yes, you did, Brett! You tried to fuck him.
Brett: [gasping] No, no…
Jules: But Marcellus Wallace don't like to be fucked by anybody except Mrs. Wallace.
Subjectio (rhetorical question)
217
Identify the figure from the example:
“To be or not to be?”
Aporia (rhetorical question)
218
Identify the figure from the example:
“Will you still love me tomorrow?”
Aporia (rhetorical question)
219
Identify the figure from the example:
“Who's that girl running around with you?”
Aporia (rhetorical question)
220
Identify the figure from the example:
```
“How many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?”
```
Unanswerable rhetorical question
221
Identify the figure from the example:
“Nice and hot”
Hendiadys
222
Identify the figure from the example:
“Go and see”
Hendiadys
223
Identify the figure from the example:
“Work out your salvation with fear and trembling”
Hendiadys
224
Identify the figure from the example:
“For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory”
Hendiadys
225
Identify the figure from the example:
“Angels and ministers of grace defend us”
Hendiadys
226
Identify the figure from the example:
“Sulphurous and tormenting flames”
Hendiadys
227
Identify the figure from the example:
“The morn and liquid dew of youth”
Hendiadys
228
Identify the figure from the example:
“The grace and blush of modesty”
Hendiadys
229
Identify the figure from the example:
“The dead vast and middle of the night”
Hendiadys
230
Identify the figure from the example:
“I have told you what I have seen and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image and horror of it”
Hendiadys
231
Identify the figure from the example:
“Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury”
Hendiadys
232
Identify the figure from the example:
“You saw her bathing on the roof.
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.”
Hendiadys
233
Identify the figure from the example:
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”
Epistrophe
234
Identify the figure from the example:
“A fine woman! A fair woman! A sweet woman!”
Epistrophe
235
Identify the figure from the example:
“I’ll have my bond! Speak not against my bond!
I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.”
Epistrophe
236
Identify the figure from the example:
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”
Epistrophe
237
Identify the figure from the example:
“Yes we can.”
Epistrophe
238
Identify the figure from the example:
“I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look—wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build, I'll be there, too.”
Epistrophe
239
Identify the figure from the example:
“Show men dutiful?
Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?
Why, so didst thou: come they of a noble family?
Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?
Why, so didst thou.”
Epistrophe
240
Identify the figure from the example:
“If you hold anything back, I’ll kill you. If you bend the truth, or I think you’re bending the truth, I’ll kill you. If you forget anything, I’ll kill you. In fact, you’re going to have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick. Now, do you understand everything I’ve said? Because if you don’t, I’ll kill you.”
Epistrophe
241
Identify the figure from the example:
“A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight!”
Epistrophe
242
Identify the figure from the example:
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
Epistrophe
[also: Tricolon]
243
Identify the figure from the example:
“Eat, drink, and be merry”
Tricolon
244
Identify the figure from the example:
“Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”
Tricolon
245
Identify the figure from the example:
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
Tricolon
246
Identify the figure from the example:
“Truth, justice, and the American way”
Tricolon
247
Identify the figure from the example:
“Lies, damned lies, and statistics”
Tricolon, Diacope
248
Identify the figure from the example:
“Wine, women, and song”
Tricolon
249
Identify the figure from the example:
“Ready, steady, go.”
Tricolon
250
Identify the figure from the example:
“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!”
Tricolon
251
Identify the figure from the example:
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
Tricolon
252
Identify the figure from the example:
“Friends, Romans, countrymen”
Tricolon
253
Identify the figure from the example:
“Mad, bad, and dangerous to know”
Tricolon
254
Identify the figure from the example:
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”
Tricolon, Diacope
255
Identify the figure from the example:
“Of graves, of worms and epitaphs”
Tricolon
256
Identify the figure from the example:
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité”
Tricolon
257
Identify the figure from the example:
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people”
Tricolon
258
Identify the figure from the example:
“Blood, sweat, and tears”
Tricolon
259
Identify the figure from the example:
“Location. Location. Location.”
Epizeuxis
260
Identify the figure from the example:
“Action. Action. Action.”
Epizeuxis
261
Identify the figure from the example:
“Simple. Simple. Simple.”
Epizeuxis
262
Identify the figure from the example:
“Education. Education. Education.”
Epizeuxis
263
Identify the figure from the example:
“Weak! Weak! Weak!”
Epizeuxis
264
Identify the figure from the example:
“No. No. No.”
Epizeuxis
265
Identify the figure from the example:
“Oh, horror, horror, horror”
Epizeuxis
266
Identify the figure from the example:
“Howl! Howl! Howl! Howl!”
Epizeuxis
267
Identify the figure from the example:
“And my poor fool is hanged.—No, no, no life?
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
And thou no breath at all? Oh, thou'lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never.—
Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir.
Do you see this? Look on her. Look, her lips.
Look there, look there. O, O, O, O.”
Epizeuxis
268
Identify the figure from the example:
“Monks! Monks! Monks!”
Epizeuxis
269
Identify the figure from the example:
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps into this petty place.”
Epizeuxis
270
Identify the figure from the example:
“Break, break, break,
On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!”
Epizeuxis
271
Identify the figure from the example:
“Words, words, words”
Epizeuxis
272
Identify the figure from the example:
“Another damned thick book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibson?”
Epizeuxis
273
Identify the figure from the example:
“The horror! The horror!”
Epizeuxis
274
Identify the figure from the example:
“Tiger, tiger, burning bright”
Epizeuxis
275
Identify the figure from the example:
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light”
Epizeuxis
276
Identify the figure from the example:
"Gone, gone again"
Epizeuxis
277
Identify the figure from the example:
“My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
Epizeuxis
278
Identify the figure from the example:
“A shocking affair occurred last night. Sir Edward Hopeless, as guest in Lady Panmore's ball, complained of feeling ill, took a highball, his hat, his coat, his departure, no notice of his friends, a taxi, a pistol from his pocket, and finally his life. Nice chap. Regrets and all that.”
Syllepsis
279
Identify the figure from the example:
“I’ve barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.”
Syllepsis
280
Identify the figure from the example:
“Rend your heart, and not your garments”
Syllepsis
281
Identify the figure from the example:
“Lose her heart or honor at a ball”
Syllepsis
282
Identify the figure from the example:
“Stain her honor or a new brocade”
Syllepsis
283
Identify the figure from the example:
“Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey,
Dost sometimes Counsel take—and sometimes Tea.”
Syllepsis
284
Identify the figure from the example:
“Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave.”
Syllepsis
285
Identify the figure from the example:
“He fell into a barrow, and fell asleep.”
Syllepsis
286
Identify the figure from the example:
“Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a sedan chair.”
Syllepsis
287
Identify the figure from the example:
“Make love not war”
Syllepsis
288
Identify the figure from the example:
“Covered themselves in dust and glory”
Syllepsis
289
Identify the figure from the example:
“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all of Heaven in a rage”
Syllepsis
290
Identify the figure from the example:
“Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice”
Syllepsis, Isocolon
291
Identify the figure from the example:
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”
Isocolon
292
Identify the figure from the example:
“Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of.”
Isocolon
293
Identify the figure from the example:
“As Caesar loved me, I weep for him. As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it. As he was valiant, I honor him. But, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition.”
Isocolon
294
Identify the figure from the example:
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Isocolon
295
Identify the figure from the example:
“Marry in haste, repent in leisure.”
Isocolon
296
Identify the figure from the example:
“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.”
Isocolon
297
Identify the figure from the example:
“In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.”
Isocolon
298
Identify the figure from the example:
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”
Isocolon
299
Identify the figure from the example:
“You pays your money and takes your choice.”
Enallage
300
Identify the figure from the example:
“...the manager’s boy put his insolent black head in the doorway, and said in a tone of scathing contempt—'Mistah Kurtz—he dead.'"
Enallage
301
Identify the figure from the example:
“We was robbed.”
Enallage
302
Identify the figure from the example:
“Let us go then, you and I”
Enallage
303
Identify the figure from the example:
“Love me tender”
Enallage
304
Identify the figure from the example:
“Do not go gentle into that good night”
Enallage
305
Identify the figure from the example:
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast”
Enallage
306
Identify the figure from the example:
“For contemplation he and valour formed,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace;
He for God only, she for God in him.”
Zeugma
307
Identify the figure from the example:
“He works his work; I mine.”
Zeugma
308
Identify the figure from the example:
“The good end happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
Zeugma
309
Identify the figure from the example:
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?”
Zeugma
310
Identify the figure from the example:
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Veridical paradox
311
Identify the figure from the example:
“There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Veridical paradox
312
Identify the figure from the example:
“All men become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
Veridical paradox
313
Identify the figure from the example:
“We live in an age where unnecessary things are only necessities.”
Veridical paradox
314
Identify the figure from the example:
“I must be cruel only to be kind.”
Veridical paradox
315
Identify the figure from the example:
“Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
Pun-paradox
316
Identify the figure from the example:
“Labour isn’t working.”
Pun-paradox
317
Identify the figure from the example:
“Back to the Future”
Pun-paradox
318
Identify the figure from the example:
```
“People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence”
```
True paradox
319
Identify the figure from the example:
“The first shall be the last, and the last shall be the first.”
True paradox, Chiasmus
320
Identify the figure from the example:
“Tea for two and two for tea
Tea for you and you for me”
Chiasmus
321
Identify the figure from the example:
“One for all and all for one”
Chiasmus
322
Identify the figure from the example:
“Eat to live, not live to eat”
Chiasmus
323
Identify the figure from the example:
“My mind on my money and money on my mind”
Chiasmus
324
Identify the figure from the example:
“Money don't make the man, but man am I making money”
Chiasmus
325
Identify the figure from the example:
“You stood up for America. Now America must stand up for you.”
Chiasmus
326
Identify the figure from the example:
“Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies”
Chiasmus
327
Identify the figure from the example:
“People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.”
Chiasmus
328
Identify the figure from the example:
“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”
Chiasmus
329
Identify the figure from the example:
“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.”
Chiasmus
330
Identify the figure from the example:
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
Chiasmus
331
Identify the figure from the example:
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
Chiasmus
332
Identify the figure from the example:
“The Sabbath was made for man and not the man for the Sabbath.”
Chiasmus
333
Identify the figure from the example:
“Judge not, lest ye be judged.”
Chiasmus
334
Identify the figure from the example:
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”
Chiasmus
335
Identify the figure from the example:
“The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on.”
Chiasmus
336
Identify the figure from the example:
“Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.”
Chiasmus
337
Identify the figure from the example:
“All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime.”
Chiasmus
338
Identify the figure from the example:
“It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men.”
Chiasmus
339
Identify the figure from the example:
“I've been too fucking busy, and vice versa.”
Chiasmus [implied]
340
Identify the figure from the example:
“Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new”
Chiasmus [grammatical]
341
Identify the figure from the example:
“I see trees of green, red roses too.”
Chiasmus [grammatical]
342
Identify the figure from the example:
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan…”
Chiasmus, Assonance
[vowels: An—Ah—Oo—i—Ah—An]
343
Identify the figure from the example:
“Beneath the thunders of the upper deep”
Chiasmus, Assonance
[vowels: Ee—e—u—e—o—e—u—e—ee]
344
Identify the figure from the example:
“High as a kite”
Assonance
345
Identify the figure from the example:
“How now, brown cow”
Assonance
346
Identify the figure from the example:
“A stitch in time saves nine”
Assonance
347
Identify the figure from the example:
“A cat has nine lives”
Assonance, The Fourteenth Rule
348
Identify the figure from the example:
“Unlucky thirteen”
The Fourteenth Rule
349
Identify the figure from the example:
“Lucky number seven.”
The Fourteenth Rule
350
Identify the figure from the example:
“Auspicious eight.”
The Fourteenth Rule
351
Identify the figure from the example:
“The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42.”
The Fourteenth Rule, Tricolon
352
Identify the figure from the example:
“Sixteen vestal virgins.”
The Fourteenth Rule
353
Identify the figure from the example:
“Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked into a pie.”
The Fourteenth Rule
354
Identify the figure from the example:
“Three blind mice.”
The Fourteenth Rule
355
Identify the figure from the example:
“Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.”
The Fourteenth Rule
356
Identify the figure from the example:
“Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die.”
The Fourteenth Rule, Merism
357
Identify the figure from the example:
“Like one that hath been seven days drowned
My body lay afloat;”
The Fourteenth Rule
358
Identify the figure from the example:
“Nine Ringwraiths”
The Fourteenth Rule
359
Identify the figure from the example:
“Seven Pillars of Wisdom”
The Fourteenth Rule
360
Identify the figure from the example:
“I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall”
The Fourteenth Rule
361
Identify the figure from the example:
“Obviously Five Believers”
The Fourteenth Rule
362
Identify the figure from the example:
“Fourth Time Around”
The Fourteenth Rule
363
Identify the figure from the example:
“Love Minus Zero”
The Fourteenth Rule
364
Identify the figure from the example:
“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”
Catachresis
365
Identify the figure from the example:
“Curiouser and curiouser”
Catachresis
366
Identify the figure from the example:
“Thunderbirds are go”
Catachresis
367
Identify the figure from the example:
“Dance Me to the End of Love”
Catachresis
368
Identify the figure from the example:
“She lives on Love Street”
Catachresis
369
Identify the figure from the example:
“Love in the First Degree”
Catachresis
370
Identify the figure from the example:
“Bad Case of Loving You”
Catachresis
371
Identify the figure from the example:
“What Time is Love?”
Catachresis
372
Identify the figure from the example:
“Lay a whisper on my pillow”
Catachresis
373
Identify the figure from the example:
“Bill Gates isn't short of a bob or two.”
Litotes
374
Identify the figure from the example:
“We are not amused.”
Litotes
375
Identify the figure from the example:
“Lovely weather we're having”
Litotes
376
Identify the figure from the example:
“Oh, because you'd know all about being faithful”
Litotes
377
Identify the figure from the example:
Washington [while in talks with Beijing...]
Metonymy
378
Identify the figure from the example:
The White House [announced today...]
Metonymy
379
Identify the figure from the example:
The British Crown [announced today...]
Metonymy
380
Identify the figure from the example:
Wall Street
Metonymy
381
Identify the figure from the example:
Green Berets
Metonymy
382
Identify the figure from the example:
Redcoats
Metonymy
383
Identify the figure from the example:
The [army's] top brass
Metonymy
384
Identify the figure from the example:
The Vatican
Metonymy
385
Identify the figure from the example:
[You're] a suit
Metonymy
386
Identify the figure from the example:
[She's] a skirt
Metonymy
387
Identify the figure from the example:
Bums in seats
Synecdoche
388
Identify the figure from the example:
Hungry mouths
Synecdoche
389
Identify the figure from the example:
Hands on deck
Synecdoche
390
Identify the figure from the example:
Their top brains
Synecdoche
391
Identify the figure from the example:
“What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
Synecdoche
392
Identify the figure from the example:
“And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when that heart began to beat,
What dread hands and what dread feet?”
Synecdoche
393
Identify the figure from the example:
“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”
Historical synecdoche
394
Identify the figure from the example:
The Boston Tea Party
Historical synecdoche
395
Identify the figure from the example:
The storming of the Bastille
Historical synecdoche
396
Identify the figure from the example:
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Historical synecdoche
397
Identify the figure from the example:
Hungry eyes
Synecdoche, Transferred Epithet
398
Identify the figure from the example:
Cheating hearts
Synecdoche, Transferred Epithet
399
Identify the figure from the example:
Lying lips
Synecdoche, Transferred Epithet
400
Identify the figure from the example:
“The man smoked a nervous cigarette.”
Transferred Epithet
401
Identify the figure from the example:
“I lit a rather pleased cigarette.”
Transferred Epithet
402
Identify the figure from the example:
“I balanced a thoughtful lump of sugar on the teaspoon.”
Transferred Epithet
403
Identify the figure from the example:
“His eyes widened and an astonished piece of toast fell from his grasp.”
Transferred Epithet
404
Identify the figure from the example:
“Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time…”
Transferred Epithet
405
Identify the figure from the example:
“The ploughman homeward plods his weary way”
Transferred Epithet
406
Identify the figure from the example:
“The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:”
Transferred Epithet
407
Identify the figure from the example:
“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help”
Tiny pleonasm
408
Identify the figure from the example:
“Personal friends”
Lazy pleonasm
409
Identify the figure from the example:
“Added bonuses”
Lazy pleonasm
410
Identify the figure from the example:
“Free gifts”
Lazy pleonasm
411
Identify the figure from the example:
“Safe havens”
Lazy pleonasm
412
Identify the figure from the example:
“Mutual cooperation”
Lazy pleonasm
413
Identify the figure from the example:
“Prizes won”
Lazy pleonasm
414
Identify the figure from the example:
“I saw it with my own two eyes”
Literary pleonasm
415
Identify the figure from the example:
“Th’inaudible and noiseless foot of time”
Literary pleonasm
416
Identify the figure from the example:
“How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world.”
Literary pleonasm
417
Identify the figure from the example:
“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.”
Literary pleonasm
418
Identify the figure from the example:
“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”
Literary pleonasm
419
Identify the figure from the example:
Duty calls
Personification
420
Identify the figure from the example:
Money talks
Personification
421
Identify the figure from the example:
Sleep beckons
Personification
422
Identify the figure from the example:
Work phoned up
Personification
423
Identify the figure from the example:
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on;”
Personification
424
Identify the figure from the example:
“Bold-faced Victory”
Personification
425
Identify the figure from the example:
“Close-tongued Treason”
Personification
426
Identify the figure from the example:
“Open-eyed Conspiracy”
Personification
427
Identify the figure from the example:
“Fire-eyed Fury”
Personification
428
Identify the figure from the example:
“The silver hand of Peace”
Personification
429
Identify the figure from the example:
“Pale-faced Fear”
Personification
430
Identify the figure from the example:
“The iron tongue of Midnight”
Personification
431
Identify the figure from the example:
“Smoothed-face peace”
Personification
432
Identify the figure from the example:
“That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling Commodity”
Personification
433
Identify the figure from the example:
“Lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave”
Personification
434
Identify the figure from the example:
“But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near”
Personification
435
Identify the figure from the example:
“Under the opening eyelids of the morn”
Personification
436
Identify the figure from the example:
“I've been waiting for ages.”
Hyperbole
437
Identify the figure from the example:
“If I've told you twice, I've told you a thousand times.”
Hyperbole
438
Identify the figure from the example:
“A ton of money”
Hyperbole
439
Identify the figure from the example:
“A flood of tears”
Hyperbole
440
Identify the figure from the example:
“In fact, Miss Abigail Ardsley has practically all the potatoes in the world, except maybe a few left over for general circulation.”
Hyperbole
441
Identify the figure from the example:
“He could have shadowed a drop of salt water from Golden Gate to Hong Kong without ever losing sight of it.”
Hyperbole
442
Identify the figure from the example:
“Going to marry her? Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself. It would be a case, not of bigamy but trigamy; there is enough of her to furnish wives for the whole parish. One man marry her!—it is monstrous! You might people a colony with her; or give an assembly with her; or perhaps take your morning's walk round her, always provided there were frequent resting places, and you were in rude health. I once was rash enough to try walking round her before breakfast, but only got half way and gave it up exhausted. Or you might read the Riot Act and disperse her; in short, you might do anything but marry her!”
Hyperbole
443
Identify the figure from the example:
“Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.”
Hyperbole
444
Identify the figure from the example:
“And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?”
Hyperbole
445
Identify the figure from the example:
“When pigs fly”
Adynaton
446
Identify the figure from the example:
“When hell freezes over”
Adynaton
447
Identify the figure from the example:
“Get blood out of a stone”
Adynaton
448
Identify the figure from the example:
“And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
Adynaton
449
Identify the figure from the example:
“Build a worm fence round a winter supply of summer weather; catch a thunderbolt in a bladder; break a hurricane to harness; hang out the ocean on a grape-vine to dry; but never, sir, never for a moment delude yourself with the idea that you can beat Grant.”
Adynaton
450
Identify the figure from the example:
“I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
“I'll love you till the ocean,
Is folded and hung to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.”
Adynaton
[also, Diacope]
451
Identify the figure from the example:
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
Adynaton
452
Identify the figure from the example:
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.”
Prolepsis
453
Identify the figure from the example:
“Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning;”
Prolepsis
454
Identify the figure from the example:
“About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood…”
Prolepsis
455
Identify the figure from the example:
“They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate;
I think they hate no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses,
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.”
Prolepsis
456
Identify the figure from the example:
“Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.”
Prolepsis, Congeries
457
Identify the figure from the example:
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like [...] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance…”
Congeries
458
Identify the figure from the example:
“The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself”
Congeries
459
Identify the figure from the example:
“'Sblood, you starveling, you elfskin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stockfish! O, for breath to utter what is like thee! You tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase, you vile standing tuck—”
Congeries
460
Identify the figure from the example:
“Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,”
Congeries
461
Identify the figure from the example:
“Paralytic sycophants, effete betrayers of humanity, carrion-eating servile imitators, arch-cowards and collaborators, gang of woman-murderers, degenerate rabble, parasitic traditionalists, playboy soldiers, conceited dandies.”
Congeries, Scesis Onomaton
462
Identify the figure from the example:
“Finders keepers.”
Scesis Onomaton
463
Identify the figure from the example:
“London.”
Scesis Onomaton
464
Identify the figure from the example:
“Implacable November weather.”
Scesis Onomaton
465
Identify the figure from the example:
“Fog everywhere.”
Scesis Onomaton
466
Identify the figure from the example:
“Space: the final frontier.”
Scesis Onomaton
467
Identify the figure from the example:
“In War: Resolution.
In Defeat: Defiance.
In Victory: Magnanimity.
In Peace: Good Will.”
Scesis Onomaton
468
Identify the figure from the example:
“Each to his own.”
Scesis Onomaton
469
Identify the figure from the example:
“Like father, like son.”
Scesis Onomaton
470
Identify the figure from the example:
“Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!”
Scesis Onomaton
471
Identify the figure from the example:
“Be near me when I fade away,
To point the term of human strife,
And on the low dark verge of life
The twilight of eternal day.”
Scesis Onomaton
472
Identify the figure from the example:
“O eyes! No eyes, but fountains fraught with tears!
O life! No life, but lively form of death!
O world! No world, but mass of public wrongs,
Confused and filled with murder and misdeeds!
O Heavens!”
Scesis Onomaton, Anaphora
473
Identify the figure from the example:
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
Anaphora
474
Identify the figure from the example:
“For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For is this done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.
For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.
For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.
For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.
For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.
For fifthly he washes himself.
For sixthly he rolls upon wash.
For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.
For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.
For tenthly he goes in quest of food.
For having considered God and himself he will consider his neighbor.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day's work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps the Lord's watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
For he will not do destruction if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.
For he purrs in thankfulness when God tells him he's a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defense is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
For he is of the Lord's poor, and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually—Poor Jeoffry! poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat.
For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better.
For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in complete cat.
For his tongue is exceeding pure so that it has in purity what it wants in music.
For he is docile and can learn certain things.
For he can sit up with gravity, which is patience upon approbation.
For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
For he can jump over a stick, which is patience upon proof positive.
For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command.
For he can jump from an eminence into his master's bosom.
For he can catch the cork and toss it again.
For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser.
For the former is afraid of detection.
For the latter refuses the charge.
For he camels his back to bear the first notion of business.
For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly.
For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services.
For he killed the Icneumon rat, very pernicious by land.
For his ears are so acute that they sting again.
For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention.
For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.
For I perceived God's light about him both wax and fire.
For the electrical fire is the spiritual substance which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast.
For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For, though he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadruped.
For he can tread to all the measures upon the music.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.”
Anaphora
475
Identify the figure from the example:
“Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.”
Anaphora
476
Identify the figure from the example:
“What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”
Anaphora
