Christmas and rhetorical devices :)
This rhetorical device focuses on the credibility and character of the speaker, aiming to persuade the audience by establishing trust and authority.
What is ethos?
This 1990 movie follows a young boy named Kevin, who is accidentally left home alone during Christmas and has to defend his house from burglars.
What is Home alone?
The name of the day after Christmas
What is Boxing Day?
The best Christmas song of all times according to the Billboard Staff
What is All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey (1994)?
"which", "that", "whose" belong to this category
What are relative pronouns?
A comparison made by referring to one thing as another. Examples
No man is an island —John Donne
Life is a beach.
What's a metaphor?
This British holiday rom-com weaves together multiple love stories, all happening in the weeks leading up to Christmas, with notable appearances by Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, and Keira Knightley.
What is Love Actually?
Another name for Santa Claus
What is Father Christmas?
The best Christmas song according to dogs (survey of 1 000 dog owners)
What is Wham's Last Christmas?
The opposite of synonyms
What are antonyms?
An explicit comparison, often (but not necessarily) employing "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
In this 1988 holiday film, a police officer (played by Bruce Willis) tries to save his wife and a group of hostages from terrorists who take over a Christmas party in a Los Angeles skyscraper.
What is Die Hard?
Meal usually eaten at lunchtime on Christmas Day
What is roast turkey?
According to the Guiness world records, this Christmas song was the first song ever played in space (on December 16, 1965)
What is Jingle bells
"that", "these", "those" - these words belong to the following category
What are demonstrative pronouns?
Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, or jest.
What is irony?
This 2004 animated Christmas movie, based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg, follows a young boy who takes a magical train ride on Christmas Eve.
What is The Polar Express
Dessert at Christmas
What is Christmas pudding?
"It's Christmas time, and there's no need to be afraid" is the first sentence of this 1980s christmas song
What is "Do they know it's Christmas" by Band Aid
This kind of pronoun introduces a question, as in "Who," "What," "Which," and "Whose."
What is interrogative pronouns?
Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas (often, although not always, in parallel structure).
Example "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." —Abraham Lincoln
What is antithesis?
This 1993 stop-motion animated film is number 7 on Rotten tomatoes' list of the best christmas movies of all-time
What is The Nightmare before Christmas?
A single snow flake to be observed falling within the 24 hr period on the 25 December
What is a white Christmas?
Number 13 on the Billboard staff Christmas list. The song is from 2014
What is "Santa tell me" by Ariana Grande
This type of verb is used to express possibility, necessity, ability, permission, or obligation. Examples include "can," "may," "must," and "should."
What is modal verbs?