Show:
Piedmont
Wildcats
Blue
Gold
DUCK Week
100
If he doesn’t call by tonight, I will absolutely die.
Hyperbole
100
Yeah, because THAT’s never happened.
Sarcasm
100
ROMEO: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Metaphor
100
“I have to use the little boys’ room.”
Euphemism
100
original copy
Oxymoron
200
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Assonance
200
Her heart was divided between concern for her sister, and resentment against all the others.
Personification
200
JAQUES: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances ("As You Like It" by William Shakespeare)
Figurative Language - Metaphor
200
Every kiss begins with Kay (Kay Jewelers)
Alliteration
200
“It is a pleasure to see you again! How are you today?” Vs. “Hey, what’s up?”
Diction
300
The Godfather; Goodfellas; Pulp Fiction
Genre (Crime)
300
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (From "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Flashback
300
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." ("To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee)
Foreshadowing
300
Put that down, it’s nacho cheese.
Pun
300
“The movie was amazing! I was laughing so hard I cried!” Vs. “You can only watch infantile humor for so long before you want to punch yourself in the face.”
Tone
400
“I know one thing: that I know nothing.” -Socrates (via Plato)
Paradox
400
Posting on Facebook about what a waste of time social media is
Situational Irony
400
“House” versus “Home”: Both words refer to the structure in which a person lives, yet “home” illustrates more warmth and comfort, whereas “house” sounds colder and more distant.
Connotation
400
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
Allegory
400
You get home to your apartment on West 12th Street. It’s a wreck. Like you. No kidding. You wonder if Amanda will ever explain her desertion. She was a model and she thought you were rich. You never spotted she was an airhead. So what does that make you?
Point of View (2nd Person)
500
The Onion is a fake news source that uses contemporary issues and highlights their absurdity. Some of the most popular headlines they’ve published include: “Supreme Court Rules Supreme Court Rules,” and “Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia; Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to Be First Recipients.”
Satire
500
Pants versus trousers: In American English, pants and trousers have the same meaning. They both refer to the clothing that one wears on one’s legs. However, “trousers” sound like a much more formal item of clothing than “pants” (note that in British English “pants” actually refers to underwear and therefore has a different meaning than trousers).
Denotation
500
The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold.
Imagery
500
To be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money. This year¹s space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined. That budget now stands at $5,400 million a year–a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year. Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the United Stated, for we have given this program a high national priority–even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us. —John F. Kennedy, “We choose to go to the moon” speech
Logos
500
With my two decades of experience as a dance teacher, you can believe I know what I’m talking about.
Ethos