"Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong."
(slogan of Pan-American Coffee Bureau)
What is a simile?
100
Zio Pepe was among those who cheered when Joe DiMaggio returned to San Francisco after his first season with the New York Yankees and was carried along the wharf on the shoulders of fishermen.
--Gay Talese
What is passive voice?
100
"Shooting an Elephant"
Who is George Orwell?
100
"I Have a Dream"
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
Name two rhetorical modes.
What are any two of the following: narration, description, process analysis, definition, classification, compare/contrast, cause/effect, and argument?
200
The choices that writers or speakers make in language for effect.
What is style?
200
"Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration."
-Emerson
What is a periodic sentence?
200
Repent Harlequin said the Ticktockman
Who is Harlan Ellison?
200
Who spoke the words "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
Acknowledgment and refutation of a counter argument.
What is a rebuttal?
300
"Take thy face hence."
(William Shakespeare, Macbeth)
What is synecdoche?
300
Hurry, I urge my country. Before it's too late.
The portion "before...late."
What is a fragment?
300
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
Who is J.D. Salinger?
300
"They tell us sir that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger?"
Who is Patrick Henry?
300
Aristotle's five canons of rhetoric.
What are invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery?
400
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you."
(Frank Oz as Yoda in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menance)
What is anadiplosis?
400
"Morbid curiosity is an occupational hazard for a writer, I suppose, but I've never been bother by it before."
-David Ewing Duncan
What is a compound sentence?
400
"A Modest Proposal"
Who is Jonathan Swift?
400
"Woman suffrage is coming--you know it. Will you Honorable Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, help or hinder it?"
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
400
All humans are mortal.
Socrates is a human.
Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
What is a syllogism?
500
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky."
(Jane Taylor, "The Star," 1806)
(There is a simile in this example, but the answer is not simile.)
What is apostrophe?
500
Physically awkward, she walks like a seal crossing a beach, and is prone to drop her books and dither in terror when she stands before a handsome boy.
The part of the sentence that is moved in the revision below.
When she stands before the handsome boy, physically awkward, she walks like a seal crossing a beach, and is prone to drop her books and dither in terror.
What is the modifier?
500
"Learning to Read"
Who is Malcom X?
500
"When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours to still mock us?"
Who is Cicero?
500
Kate's a woman.
Of, course she gave me good advice.
(Hint: the first unstated premise is arguable and unstated)