Vocabulary
What is the definition of gratuitous?
not appropriate to the circumstance; uncalled for; unwarranted
free of cost; freely given or received
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
"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."
Anadiplosis
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
What part of speech is the underlined word?
“When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was”
Adjective
Which ideology is concerned with the nature of ethics?
Axiology
What is the definition of defame?
to ruin the good name or reputation of a person; to denigrate, disparage
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
(Alfred North Whitehead)
Chiasmus
There is therefore but one categorial imperative, namely this: Act only that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law
Immanuel Kant
What part of speech is the underlined word?
“When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was”
Subordinating Conjunction
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."
Anastrophe
What is the definition of inundate?
to fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; to overwhelm, ‘swamp.’
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
“Our transportation crisis will be solved by a bigger plane or a wider road, mental illness with a pill, poverty with a law, slums with a bulldozer, urban conflict with a gas, racism with a goodwill gesture." (Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness)
Ellipsis
By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness...
What part of speech is the underlined word?
“When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was”
Transitive Verb
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. (Raymond Chandler, Farewell, my Lovely)
Anaphora
What is the definition of amicable?
characterized by friendliness and goodwill (typically used to describe a person’s personality or the state of a relationship)
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be” (T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)
Allusion
"Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests / I bear a charmed life / which must not yield to one of ___________."
"woman-born"
What part of speech is the underlined word?
“When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was”
Subordinating Conjunction
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you / Till China and Africa meet, / And the river jumps over the mountain / And the salmon sing in the street.” (W.H. Auden, “As I Walked One Evening)
Hyperbole
What is the definition of recant?
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
"I don't know whether the verse put a blessing on the fireflies or the fireflies put a blessing on the verse, or if both of them together put a blessing on trouble, but I have loved them both a good deal ever since."
Chiasmus
The witches' final three prophecies are an example of what rhetorical device?
Verbal Irony
What part of speech is the underlined word?
“When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was”
Predicate Adjective (participle)
Which rhetorical device is the following quote from Macbeth?
Malcom: "I'll to England"
Donalbain: "To Ireland I"
Ellipsis