Arnold Schwarzenegger promoting State Farm in a commercial.
Ethos
"That was a beautiful time, a very beautiful time."
-Not epistrophe
- Not repetition
Diacope
"'This farm's a continent when you go foot by foot...'"
-Not metaphor
Hyperbole
Serious
Grave
Anxious
Angst
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
- Not paradox
Chiasmus
"O heavy lightness...bright smoke, cold fire, sick health"
-Not asyndeton
- Not parallelism
- Not apostrophe
- Not personification
Oxymoron
"The dinner wasn't too bad"
litotes
Self-centered
Egotistical
"'Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem... when you durst do it, then you were a man..."'
Condescending
"You aren't poor, you are economically disadvantaged."
Euphemism
Before Huck tells Mary Jane that the King and Duke are frauds, Mary Jane does not know this information, but the reader does.
Dramatic irony
"Some of them hated mathematics that drove them [to insanity], and some worshipped the mathematics because if provided refuge..."
-Not anaphora
-Not juxtaposition
-Not personification
Antithesis
Passionate
-Not vehement
Ardent
"Don't put your foot up there Huckleberry"
-Not admonish
-Not brusque
- Not acerbic
Austere
"Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to-day"
-Not personification
-Not anaphora
- Not Repetition
Allusion
“Friends, countrymen, lend me your ears.”
Synecdoche
"From West Egg came the Poles and the Mulereadys and Cecil Roebuck and Cecil Schoen..."
-Not enumeratio
Polysyndeton
"The King hath happily receiv'd Macbeth, the news of they success...And for an earnest of a greater honour, he bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor; in which addition, hail, most worthy Thane! For it is thine."
-Not complimentary
- Not benevolent
- Not ardent
Laudatory
Video clip (The Office)
Facetious