Summer Reading/Orwell
You must do this to the title of a novel, play, film, or painting
The house of a firefighter catches on fire
Situational Irony
The number of syllables per stanza in the following "Because I could not stop for death / He kindly stopped for me / His carriage held but just ourselves / And Immortality"
Common meter
"Fair is foul and foul is fair"
Paradox
For example, using per person annual health care spending statistics to justify a Healthcare for All system
Logos
Big Brother, with his omnipresent gaze and mustache, is a likely _______ to Josef Stalin
Allusion
"Something's off here. Wait! This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire escape!"
Verbal Irony
"As the Governor's special assistant Ivan Ilyich had danced; as examining magistrate this became an exception. Now his dancing implied -- although I administer the reformed Code and rank fifth grade in the civil service, if it comes to dancing, watch me prove I can do better than anyone else, too."
Free-Indirect Discourse
"Come spirits that tend on mortal thoughts"
Double Entendre
"There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me -- at least before I was a senator."
Pathos
“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer”
Hyperbole
See the Google Slide
Incongruity
"And I had put away.../
For His Civility"
Slant Rhyme
The proper way to cite a play by Shakespeare
(Act#.Scene#.Line#)
"I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice"
Ethos
"The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats."
Appeal to the senses
See the Google Slide
Parody
The likening of death to carriage driver in "Because I could not stop for Death"
Personification
"All this we can do. And all this we will do."
High Modality
"The Thing Around Your Neck" is an example of this kind of narration
"Why you little...!"
Invective
"I ... hit a World, at every plunge, /
And Finished knowing - then - "
Aposiopesis
For instance, using "crown" to refer to the British government or "wheels" to a car
Metonymy