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"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. Just keep swimming swimming swimming"
What is anaphora?
100
The rhetorical device that Tom used is... Ben: Last time I took it, I was a Tom. Tom: What?! No, no, no, no!! Take it again! Ugh, I have to go recalibrate the quiz! -Parks and Recreation
What is repetition?
100
"You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing." -John Green .... What rhetorical strategy does TFIOS character Augustus Waters use when talking to Hazel Grace?
What is a metaphor
100
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" - Edgar Allan Poe What does the phrase appeal to ?
What is Pathos
100
“Our party ...has always been at its best when we’ve led not by polls, but by principle; not by calculation, but by conviction ...” - Barack Obama
What is ALLITERATION
200
Woody and Buzz race to catch up before they lose Andy forever.
What is personification?
200
"Jean-Ralphio, although I truly hope that I never see you again, I do wish you a long and happy life." - Leslie (Parks and Recreation)
What is pathos?
200
"It's curious you should be destined for this wand when it's brother gave you that scar." "The wand choses the wizard, Mr.Potter." - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling .... What rhetorical strategy does Mr.Ollivander use in the quotes above?
What is personification
200
"you do not, you do not, you do not." - Slyvia Path
What is repetition?
200
Information or rumor deliberately spread to help or harm a person, group, or institution.
What is PROPAGANDA
300
Simba feels guilty for his father's death, unaware that Scar actually killed Mufasa.
What is irony?
300
"There! No more conflict [looks at the camera] I had to use win/lose on that. It was not pretty. -Michael Scott (The Office)
What is Oxymoron? Because of the win/lose
300
"Johnny just looked dead. Like a candle with the flame gone." - The Outsiders, C.S. Lewis .... What rhetorical strategy does Ponyboy Curtis use in the quote above?
What is a simile
300
"Memory hurls Familiar images; Recalls the old days" - Leon Enriquez
What is Flashback
300
What are the three types of Irony?
What is Verbal, Situation, and Dramatic irony
400
Alice must pass a series of tests as she makes her way through Wonderland.
What is archetype?
400
The rhetorical device that Sheldon used is... Howard: I thought you didn't like Facebook any more. Sheldon: Don't be silly, I'm a fan of anything that tries to replace actual human contact. -The Big Band Theory
What is sarcasm?
400
"You must obey every command I give you... Should I tell you to abandon me and save yourself; you must do so... Your word Harry..." .... What rhetorical sentence does Professor Albus Dumbledore use in the quote above?
What is an imperative sentence
400
"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;" - Kipling
What is Anaphora
400
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.-George Orwell
What is PARADOX
500
Before she's fatally shot by a hunter, Bambi's mother gives Bambi a lecture on the dangers of man.
What is foreshadowing?
500
"She took the decorations? That Grinch!" -Ted (How I Met Your Mother)
What is Allusion?
500
"Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything, from nothing first create, O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this." - Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare .... What rhetorical strategy does Romeo repeatedly use in the speech above?
What are oxymorons
500
"How much greater danger from occasion and pain is my vitality yielding like a tree on fire!-- for every day is another view of the tentative past grown secure in its foundry of shimmering that's not even historical;it's just me" - Frank O' Hara
What is Abstract
500
Recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event
What is a MOTIF