Identify the rhetorical device
Strong as an ox
What is simile
"There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin."
What is John F. Kennedy's "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" speech
The three overall types of speeches
What are the informative speech, the persuasive speech and the occasional speech
The topic in a discourse
What is the nodal point
Formlen for bøjning af verber i simpel futurum
Hvad er will + infinitiv
Hope for the best; prepare for the worst
What is antithesis
"... that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
What is Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
The odd one out in the "circumstances" dimension: Time, geography, culture, topic, society
What is topic
The term for a concept that means different things to different people
What is floating signifier
Formlen til at bøje verber i simpel perfektum
Hvad er en nutidform af have som hjælpeverbum + -ed på hovedverbum
While I nodded, nearly napping
What is alliteration
" It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America."
What is Barack Obama's Victory Speech
The odd one out in the "speaker" dimension: Gender, age, education, job, language, ethnicity, political- and religious standpoint
What is language
The woman who wrote the speech "What's Wrong with Equal Rights for Women?"
Who is Phyllis Schlafly
Bøjningen af "dance" i simpel nutid og udvidet nutid
Hvad er dance/dances og am/is/are dancing
Your stunned silence is very reassuring
What is irony
"Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job."
What is Emma Gonzalez' "March for our Lives" speech
Three elements that argumentation is comprised of
What are claim, warrant and grounds
The chain of equivalence (three words) in this discourse about Putin: "But the next morning, war had come. Because Putin wanted a war. Because of one man. A tyran fighting freedom, because freedom will take him down."
What is war, tyran, fighting
Bøjningen af "talk" i udvidet pluskvamperfektum
Hvad er had been talking
He is the true Einstein of our class
What is allusion
"And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say "Me too" again."
What is Oprah Winfrey's speech at the Golden Globes in 2018
A word's objective and literal meaning and its subjective and non-literal meaning
What are denotation and connotation
The chain of difference (six words) in this discourse about the things America supports: "There is no place for hate in America — not against Jews, not against Muslims, not against anybody. We reject terrorism. We condemn the indiscriminate evil, just as we’ve always done."
What is hate, reject, terrorism, condemn, indiscriminate, evil
Bøjningsformen i sætningen: "He was laughing all night"
Hvad er udvidet præteritum