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"And I can pledge out nation to goal: When we see that wounded traveler on the road, Jericho, we will not pass to the other side." 

--George W. Bush, 9-20-01, Address to Congress and the Nation 

Allusion 

100

"Somewhere at this very moment, a child is being born in America. Let it be our cause to give that child a happy home, a healthy family, and a hopeful future." 

--Bill Clinton, 1992, Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address 

Alliteration 

100

"Dumb gorgeous people should not be allowed to use literature when competing in the pick-up pool. It's like bald people wearing hats."

--delivered by Matt McGrath Broken Hearts Club 

Analogy 

200

" I think it can be said that he now stands with our other American martyrs in the cause of freedom and justice. His death is a terrible tragedy and sorrow first of all to his family, to our nation, and to our conscience. The criminal act that took his life brings shame to our country. An Apostle of non-violence has been the victim of violence. The cause for which he marked and worked, I am sure, will find a new strength." 

-- Hubert H. Humphrey, on Remarks on the Assassination  of Martin Luther King, Jr 

Paradox 

200

"A Republic whose history, like the path of the just, is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."

 --William Jennings Bryant 

Simile 

200

"Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war-not history's forces nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor the causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of governments- nor any other things. We are the Killers."

--delivered by Katherine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter 

Polysyndeton 

300

"We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles the giving of blood, the saying of prayers in English, Hebrew, and Arabic 

--George W. Bush, 9/20/01, Address to the Nation on Terrorism   

Parallelism 

300

"At the dawn of spring last year, a single act of terror brought forth the long, cold winter in our hearts. The people of Oklahoma City are mourning still."

--Al Gore, Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address

Metaphor 

300

"I feel the need, the need for speed." 

--delivered by Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards, Top Gun 

Assonance 

400

"Such acts are commonly stimulated by forces of hatred and malevolence such as today are eating their way into the bloodstream of American life."

--USSC Justice Earl Warren Eulogy for John F. Kennedy 

Personification 

400

"and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." 

--Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address 

Epistrophe 

400

"We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line." 

--delivered by Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men 

Asyndeton 

500

"The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

--Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg  Address 

Antithesis 

500

"Give us this day, our daily bread."


--Matthew 6:11,

The Holy Bible

Synecdoche 

500

" I ask you to consider the evidence. Don't turn away from the truth. Don't turn away from your conscience. Please, don't ignore the law. No embrace that higher principle for which the law was meant to serve: Justice that's all I ask justice." 

--delivered by Denzel Washington, The Hurricane 

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