Rhetorical Devices
Grammar as Rhetoric
Authors of Literature
Famous Speeches
Argument Terms
100
"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 (note the order of words: "was carried along the wharf")
What is passive voice?
100
"Shooting an Elephant"
Who is George Orwell?
100
"I Have a Dream"
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
The reasons that support the claim.
What are premises.
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 (type of sentence)
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
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
"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'”
Who is President Reagan?
300
Aristotle's first canon of rhetoric that involves coming up with ideas.
What is invention?
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 or anaphora?
400
"Morbid curiosity is an occupational hazard for a writer, I suppose, but I've never been bother by it before." -David Ewing Duncan Type of sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
400
"A Modest Proposal"
Who is Jonathan Swift?
400
"Ultimately, that’s what our democracy demands. It needs you. Not just when there’s an election, not just when your own narrow interest is at stake, but over the full span of a lifetime."
Who is President Obama?
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. "physically awkward" would be called this.
What is the modifier?
500
"Civil Disobedience"
Who is Thoreau?
500
"A date which will live in infamy..."
Who is Roosevelt?
500
Kate's a woman. Of, course she gave me good advice. (Hint: the first unstated premise is arguable and unstated)
What is an enthymeme?