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100
I have so often recommended to you attention and application to whatever you learn, that I do not mention them now as duties; but I point them out to you as conductive, nay, absolutely necessary to your pleasures; for can there be a greater pleasure than to be universally allowed to excel those of one’s own age and manner of life?
What is didactic tone?
100
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
What is masculine rhyme?
100
Mississippi is a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression.
What is a metaphor?
100
He was a year older than I, skinny, brown as a chocolate bar, his hair orange, his hazel eyes full of mischief and laughter.
What is layering?
100
We divide the world into columns when we stick to our own kind. We nurture our suspicions, keep our stereotypes in line. How come, if we are so different, we both react the same?
What is irony?
200
I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Christianity as his initial wedge in criminal colonial conquests.
What is a virulent tone?
200
Out in the dusk day after day breaking stones, summer and winter, aching bones.
What is assonance?
200
Now only night moved in the souls of two men bent by their lonely fire in the wilderness; darkness pumped quietly in their veins and ticked silently at their temples and wrists.
What is personification?
200
We finally reached San Diego/that morning/after a long delay/ a turbulent flight/ and some exciting adventures with airline food.
What is loose sentence?
200
He could shoot a bumblebee in the eye at sixty paces, and he was a man who was not afraid to shake hands with lighting.
What is hyperbole?
300
Indeed it strikes me that to lay this obscenity off to some mitigating factor, no matter how worthy, is the make the crime smaller than it is and offer rationalizations that insult he sufferers.
What is a disgusted or contemptuous tone?
300
Therefore to give them from me was I bold, To trust those tables that receive thee more:
What is consonance?
300
"In the almost incredibly brief time which it took the small but sturdy porter to roll a milk-can across the platform and bump it, with a clang, against other milk-cans similarly treated a moment before, Ashe fell in love."
What is a periodic sentence?
300
O grim-looked night! O night with hue so black! O night, which ever at when day is not!
What is apostrophe?
400
Be-cause | I could | not stop | for Death the unit of sound made up of a stressed and unstressed syllable; when there are four iambs in a line
What is a foot? what is iambic tetrameter?
400
Well, son, I tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It had tacks in it.
What is implied metaphor?
400
"It is by logic we prove, but by intuition we discover."
What is parallel structure?
400
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- and then run?
What is simile?
500
I stood up, nervously, wondering what it could be. I felt my classmates' piercing eyes as I mechanically left the classroom. Teacher Hau walked ahead of me without seeming to notice my presence. I followed silently.
What is a subdued and dreadful tone?
500
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.
What is slant or approximate rhyme?
500
Her saucer-eyes narrow to a gimlet stare and she lets Mr. Clarke have it with both barrels.
What is a mixed metaphor?
500
My students complain often when I am trying to make them successful college students! Why?
What is an exclamatory sentence?
500
"Other children will go with me, and march in the streets of Burmingham To make our country free" "No baby, no, you may not go, For I fear those guns will fire. But you may go to church instead and sing in the children's choir."
What is synecdoche?