"It may be pointed out that the proposed tax plan adds a burden to a small number of families in the upper brackets. While this may be true, the benefits offered to those who are most in need must surely outweigh a small bit of hardship to those who are not."
What is procatalepsis?
100
It's not the smartest idea I've ever heard...
What is litotes?
100
"We live within our limits, for we are men, not gods."
What is antithesis?
100
"How do we know this to be true? We have observed it in the lab."
What is hypophora?
100
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us."
What is epistrophe?
200
"Scientists have reached further and further to unlock the secrets of the universe. But there are those who would argue that ... science ignores the ever-nearing sun at its own peril"
What is allusion?
200
"A modern day Moses, he led his nation to a new beginning."
What is eponym?
200
"We would do well to remember, however, that all is fair in love and war."
What is sententia?
200
"Curiosity leads to discovery, leads to knowledge, leads to wisdom."
What is climax?
200
"I have journeyed in the lands of the spirit, drunk from the fountains of wisdom, rested beneath the trees of eternity, and, to the land of my birth, I have returned."
What is chiasmus?
300
"In education we find the measure of our own ignorance; in ignorance we find the beginning of wisdom."
What is anadiplosis / conduplicatio?
300
"This continued for many years-some would say far longer than it should have-before a new brand of politician put an end to it."
What is parenthesis?
300
"The previous passages explain when they got here, and who brought them. The next quotation shows how and why they made the journey."
What is metabasis?
300
"At this point, we have a short time left- a short time being less than fifty years."
What is distinctio?
300
"So we near our conclusion, and I must ask you, my wise reader, to bear with me for one small digression."
What is apostrophe?
400
"I went to the mall, the park, the river, the salon, and, finally, home."
What is enumeratio?
400
"She can be quick to anger, but when you're in need, she'll always be there."
What is antanagoge?
400
"Let us consider a woman born into poverty; let us see that she has no opportunity for education, no encouragement from her parents, and no financial resources to fall back on. Can we truly content the choices open to her in life are equal to a man's?"
What is exemplum?
400
"On the day of the historic battle, the ferocious sun rose early and looked bloody."
What is epithet?
400
"First-century Jerusalem was a truly multilingual city with Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew all competing to be heard in a veritable Tower of Babel."
What is asyndeton?
500
"The teenage sweethearts, the elderly couple, and the flickering candles all danced late into the night."
What is zeugma?
500
"When the beautician opened her own shop, she took twenty heads with her from the shop where she used to work."
What is synecdoche?
500
"Intentions profit nothing, only promises kept matter."
What is hyperbaton?
500
"I have heard that native deer populations in North America seem to be on the decline, and I don't know what to say about that. In my experience, it seems our town is inundated by these creatures."
What is aporia?
500
"The Throne has issued an order that the troops will be paid by Thursday."