Syntax
What syntax is seen in this sentence?
"Hauser's portrait of Ali is compassionate and unjudging: Is the man to be blamed for having been addicted to his body's own adrenaline, or are others to be blamed for indulging him - and exploiting him?"
This is an example of an interrogative sentence.
Is this an example of Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
"A romance of (expendable) maleness - in which The Fight is honored, and even great champions come, and go."
This is an example of Pathos.
What literary device is used in the sentence?
"...Ali was described by A.J. Leibling as 'skittering...like a pebble over water.'"
This is an example of a Simile.
What theme is seen throughout this section of the text?
"Mike Tyson's boast, after his defeat of the twelve-to-one underdog Carl Williams in a heavyweight title defense of 1989, 'I want to fight, fight, fight and destruct the world,' strikes a poignantly hollow note, even if we knew nothing of subsequent disatrous events in Tyson's life and career."
The theme seen throughout this section of the text is violence and savagery.
What syntax is seen in this sentence?
"An authorized biography, it would appear to be definitive, and is certainly exhaustive; Hauser spent thousands of hours with his subject, as well as approximately two hundred other people, and was given access to Ali's medical records."
This is an example of a compound-complex sentence.
Is this an example of Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
"An authorized biography, it would appear to be definitive, and is certainly exhaustive; Hauser spent thousands of hours with his subject, as well as approximately two hundred other people, and was given access to Ali's medical records."
This is an example of Ethos.
What literary device is used in the sentence?
"Boxing is a stylized mimicry of a fight to the death..."
This is an example of a Metaphor.
What theme is seen throughout this section of the text?
"'I'm free to be me.' Two years later, refusing to be inducted into the army to fight in Vietnam, Ali, beleagured by reporters, uttered one of the memorable incendiary remarks of that era: 'Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong.'"
The theme seen throughtout this section of the text is freedom and having the independence to do what you want.
What syntax is seen in this sentence?
"Get up and fight, sucker!"
The is an example of an imperative sentence.
Is this an example of Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
"'The nearest thing to death,' Ali described it, after his third title match with Joe Frazier, in 1975, which he won when the fight was stopped after the fourteenth round."
This is and example of Ethos.
What literary device is used in the sentence?
"...like all the great atheletes, Ali had to be seen to be believed."
This is an example of Cliche.
What theme is seen throughout this section of the text?
These somber and terrigying boxing matches make us weep or thier very futility; we seem to be in the presence of human experience too profound to be named - beyond the strategies and diminishments of language.
The theme seen throughout this section of the text is sadness and misery.
What syntax is seen in this sentence?
"Professional boxing is the only major American sport whose primary, and often murderous, energies are not coyly deflected by such artifacts as balls as pucks."
The is an example of a declarative sentence.
Is this an example of Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
"...but it is the most spectacularly and pointedly cruel sport, its intention being to stun one's opponent's brain; to affect the orgasmic communal "knockout" that is the culminating point of the rising action of the ideal fight."
This is and example of Pathos.
What literary device is used in the sentence?
"These hard-won victories began irreversible loss: progressive deterioration of Ali's kidneys, hands, reflexes, stamina."
This is an example of a Juxaposition.
What theme is seen throughout this section of the text?
"To see race as a predominant factor in American boxing is inevitable, but the moral issues, as always in this paradoxical sport, are ambiguous. Is there a moral distinction between the spectacle of black slaves in the Old South being forced by their white owners to fight...?"
The theme seen throughout this section is questioning the actions and choices of those from the past and seeing how they impact the those in the future.