Who said this?
Who said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death?
Patrick Henry
What is an appeal to logic called?
Logos
Fix this sentence: I would like two hot dog's and a side order of fries.
I would like two hot dogs and a side order of fries.
Thomas Jefferson
What does the word disparity mean?
Quote: But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of disparity between us.
A difference in level or treatment, especially one that is seen as unfair.
Who said, "Because I could not stop for death – He kindly stopped for me."
Emily Dickinson
What is an appeal to time called?
Kairos
Fix this sentence: After the movie we went to get ice cream.
After the movie, we went to get ice cream.
Edgar Allen Poe
What does unalienable mean?
Quote: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;
Something that is impossible to take away or give up.
Who said, "I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best"
Benjamin Franklin
What is giving something non-human, human characteristics called.
Personification
Fix this sentence: I know a woman that can type 80 words per minute.
I know a woman who can type 80 words per minute.
Who wrote Walden?
Henry David Thoreau
What does enmity mean?
Quote: I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny
The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
Who said, "Fellow citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions!"
Frederick Douglass
What is a situation or statement that is contrary to what is expected or intended called?
Irony
Fix this sentence: We were on the way to school. Suddenly, the sky turns dark.
We were on the way to school. Suddenly, the sky turned dark.
Who wrote Nature?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What does perverseness mean?
Quote: This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow. It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself—to offer violence to its own nature—to do wrong for the wrong's sake only.
The quality of deliberately deviating from what is normal, good, or proper, or stubbornly holding to what is wrong.
Who said, "I went to the woods to live deliberately..."
Henry David Thoreau
What is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words called?
Alliteration
Fix this sentence: The suspects were interviewed right after the crime was committed by the detectives.
The suspects were interviewed by the detectives right after the crime was committed.
Who wrote One Today poem?
Richard Blanco
What does the word frittered mean?
Quote: Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Wasted time, energy, money of frivolous things.