Turns of Phrase
Fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem
What is a sonnet?
Reds
What is Cincinnati?
Opposite over hypotenuse
What is sine?
Independence Day
What is July 4, 1776?
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
What is Hamlet?
Comparing different things by speaking as if they were the same thing
What is a metaphor?
Indians
(I mean Guardians)
What is Cleveland?
Opposite over adjacent
What is tangent?
Pearl Harbor Day
What is December 7, 1941?
"The descent to [Hell] is easy."
What is The Aeneid?
Two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same
What is a couplet?
Nationals
What is Washington?
Adjacent over hypotenuse
What is cosine?
Attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon
What is September 11, 2001?
"I fear the Greeks, even when they bear gifts."
What is The Aeneid?
Words and expressions that have become obsolete in the common speech of an era
What is archaism?
Diamondbacks
What is Arizona?
sin x/cos x
What is tan x?
October 7, 1571
What is the Battle of Lepanto?
"Nothing can come of nothing, speak again."
What is King Lear?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
Brewers
What is Milwaukee?
Daily Double
sin2x = cos2x = 1
October 12, 1492
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
What is Hamlet?