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100
"Just like an iceberg, the most important dimensions of culture are below the surface."
What is a simile?
100
"I was a ninja ready to strike with precision, grace, and hopefully accuracy."
What is a metaphor (rule of three)?
100
"Animated with hope, nay with an assurance of the triumph of liberty and good will to man, I will lift up my voice like a trumpet, and show this people their transgression."
What is a simile (voice like trumpet)?
100
"The sisters were so alike they are like two peas in a pod."
What is a simile (sisters like peas)?
100
"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
What is an antithesis?
200
"There was still a blanket of snow covering the ground and everyone's breath still held visibly in the air like smoke."
What is a metaphor (blanket of snow), simile (breath like smoke)?
200
"My cheeks painted red, I felt the weight of defeat and shame make a home in my guy, but I wasn't about to give up."
What is a metaphor (painted cheeks, home in gut)?
200
"I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing."
What is an antithesis?
200
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for all mankind."
What is an antithesis?
200
"As blind as a bat."
What is a simile (eyesight is comparable to a bat's).
300
"And though he left this world without ever making the pages of a history book, he still left the world an important life story - and in the pages of his life, in his everyday acts, I find his spirit - a spirit of unconditional, selfless, and inspiring love."
What is a metaphor (life is a history book)?
300
"They ask: "Is it worth losing valuale sleep and rest time on the weekend to get up so early just to fish?' These people never quietly slipped in a slough as the sun rises. These people have never been on a river before anyone else when the only sounds to be heard are the silvery splashes of fish breaking the silk-like surface of the lake. These people have never spent a day in silent communion with the spirit of the lake."
What is alliteration (s) and repetition (these people have never...) metaphor (spirit of the lake).
300
"Today, a generation raised in the shadow of the cold war assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues."
What is a metaphor (light/dark metaphor)?
300
"I will free your children from insultingly high infant mortality rates, short life spans, horrible housing, lack of food, rampant ill health. I will liberate them from the ghetto. I will open wide the doors of all the schools and hospitals and businesses of society to your children. I will look at your children and see not a threat but a joy."
What is repetition (I will)?
300
"I finally arrived here in 1968. What a special day it was. I remember when I arrived here with empty pockets, but full of dreams, full of determination, full of desire."
What is parallelism (I arrived here) repetition (full of ... )?
400
"Because most town in Iowa are fairly small, everybody knows everybody, so gossip spreads like a disease. And there's no cure for it either. You can't take antibiotics or drugs to make it go away, in fact, despite what logic would tell you, any attempt to make it go away will just make it worse."
What is a simile (gossip like a disease)?
400
"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."
What is a simile (we are separate as fingers)?
400
"There is nothing to be feared from those who would stop our mouths, but they themselves should fear and tremble. The current is even now setting fast against them. If the arm of the North had not caused the Bastille of slavery to totter to its foundation, you would not hear those cries."
What is a metaphor (current, arm of North, Bastille of slavery ...)
400
"Some speak of an age of terror. I know there are struggles ahead, and dangers to face. But this country will define our times, not be defined by them."
What is an antithesis (last clause)?
400
"Your eyes are like sunshine. You are my sunshine."
What is a simile (eyes like sunshine), metaphor (you are sunshine).
500
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
What is parallelism (see verb tense)?
500
"We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed."
What is an antithesis?
500
"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."
What is parallelism (___with _____)?
500
"My Speech class is filled with silly smiling students, so sad to say 'see ya'!"
What is alliteration (s)?
500
"And he knows that it's not enough for just some of us to prosper. For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga, a belief that we are all connected as one people. If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription and having to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.
What is repetition (if there's an...) parallelism (even if it's not my ...).