Name the Writer
In my mind's eye, I could see him, sitting at the window, locked up in his terrors...
James Baldwin
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
MLK
“In every cry of every Man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban”
Anaphora
His main duties were filing reports, answering phone calls, and writing memos.
Parallelism
I like cheese but, I hate Gruyere.
misplaced comma
In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks.
Malcolm X
The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly,
Booker T. Washington
His time a moment, and a point his space.
Chiasmus
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
antithesis
The mummy was nearly buried for 4000 years.
misplaced modifier
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
MLK
That wasn’t the first time I’d seen my father confront the violence of young people without resorting to killing them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Apart from a few mechanical tricks of rhetoric, manner is indissoluably linked to matter; style shapes and, in turn, is shaped by substance.
echoing salience
If [journalists] held themselves as responsible for the rise of public cynicism as they hold "venal" politicians and the "selfish" public; if they considered that the license they have to criticize and defame comes with an implied responsibility to serve the public – if they did all or any of these things, they would make journalism more useful, public life stronger, and themselves far more worthy of esteem.
suspension
Walking home from the store, my wallet was lost.
dangling modifier/ passive verb
Cast down your bucket where you are.
Booker T. Washington
Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
W.E.B. Dubois
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Antimetabole
He boldly led, and we followed blindly.
Chiasmus
If you have any questions as either your supervisor or myself.
improper pronoun case
One ever feels his twoness...
W.E.B.Dubois
My father asked me abruptly, "You'd rather write than preach, wouldn't you?"
James Baldwin
...Of the people, by the people, for the people.
Epistrophe
I have written these essays to anatomize this familiar yet really strange being, style the centaur; the book may be read as an extended critical commentary on Buffon's famous saying that the style is the man.
echoing salience
Tim met John when he was in town last week.
Unclear pronoun reference