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"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang
separately."
AntanaclasisBen Franklin
"Reaching the moon was no ordinary task."
Litotes
In Pilgrim’s Progress, the main character Christian interacts with symbolically named
characters.
Allegory
John Bunyan
“Houston, we have a problem.”
Synechdoche
"Isn't that what being an international man of mystery is all
about?"
Alliteration
“You could be my black Kate Moss tonite.”
Kanye West
Allusion
“A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no
unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his
subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
Pleonasm
“Just wait till we get our Hanes on you.”
Paranomasia
"The minister who has been called by God, ordained by God, appointed by God, and anointed by God, is
assumed guilty until proven innocent.”
EpistropheRavi Zacharias
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.
Simile
"Anything that happens, happens. Anything that in happening causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that in happening happens again, happens again. Though not necessarily in that order.”
Tautology
“Even though the blame's on you, I'll take that blame from you. And you can put that
blame on me.”
Praeteritio
“Verb, its what you do.”
Anthimeria
"I've had some long nights in the stir. Alone in the dark with nothing but your thoughts, time can draw out like a blade. That was the longest night of my
life.”
Simile
Morgan Freeman
The Shawshank Redemption
“Kakunk Kakunk Kakunk!”
OnomatopoeiaLupe Fiasco/Kick Push
"With this ring I thee wed."
Archaism
Dog Catcher = Canine Relocation Specialist
Euphemism
"With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful
symphony of brotherhood.”
MetaphorDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Consonance
"Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war -- not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes,
nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government -- not any other thing.”
Polysyndeton
But I ain't goin' no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I wanna die, I'll die right
here, right now fightin’ you—if I wanna die.”
Epanalepsis
Will Smith in Ali
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
Paraprosdokian
“We want no parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your
wicked will.”
Cacophony
Winston Churchill
"I am elated by the knowledge that for the first time in our history a woman, Geraldine Ferraro, will be
recommended to share our ticket.”
Apposition
Jesse Jackson
"We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent
defending something. You use them as a punch line.”
Asyndeton
Jack Nicholson
A Few Good Men
"She was a thief, you got to believe: she stole my heart and
my cat."
Syllepsis
In response to Mrs. Connally's comment, "Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you." John F. Kennedy
uttered his last words, “That’s very obvious.”
Irony
"And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a merry Christmas, and God bless
all of you, all of you on the good earth.”
ClimaxFrank Borman
“Flies o’er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.”
Euphony
Alexander Popefrom Sound and Sense
"...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth."
Parallelism
Abraham Lincoln
“I thank You God for most this amazing day.”
Anastrophe
"We find ourselves rich in goods but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon but falling into
raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We’re torn by division, wanting unity.”
Antithesis
Richard Nixon
"Let each man search his conscience and search his
speeches."
Isocolon
Winston Churchill
“Among the great achievements of Benito Mussolini's regime were the revival of a strong national consciousness, the
expansion of the Italian Empire, and the running of trains on time.”
Anticlimax
Elvis Presley died today. He was 42. Apparently, it was a heart attack. He was found in his home in Memphis not breathing. His road manager tried to revive him -- he failed. A hospital
tried to revive him – it failed.
Synecdoche
"They call for you: The general who became a slave; the slave who became a gladiator; the
gladiator who defied an Emperor.”
AnadiplosisJoaquin Phoenix Gladiator
"My Republican Party today—it is not a conservative Party. It is soft on globalism. It is soft on big
government. It is soft on the 2nd Amendment. It is soft on life.”
AnaphoraPat Buchanon
"Such acts are commonly stimulated by forces of hatred and malevolence such as today are eating their way into the bloodstream of American life.”
Personification
Justice Earl Warren
“Let us die, and charge into the thick of the fight."
Hysteron Proteron
Virgil
"So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear
itself."
Hyperbole
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation."
Parenthesis
William Hazlitt
"A Republic whose history, like the path of the just, is as the shining light that shineth more and more
unto the perfect day.”
Simile
William Jennings Bryan
“Agreements entered into when one state of facts exists — are they to be maintained regardless of
changing conditions?”
Anacoluthon
John George Diefenbaker
"Safe sex -- now there's an _______. That's
like 'tactical Nuke' or 'adult male.'"
Oxymoron
"The gloves didn't fit. If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
Assonance
Johnny Cochrane
"By day the frolic, and the dance by night.”
Chiasmus
Samuel Johnson
“And he to England shall along with you.”
Ellipsis
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
"I, Barbara Jordan, am a keynote speaker."
Apposition
Barbara Jordan
“A Taste of Heaven.”
Apotheosis
"Be one of the few, the proud, the Marines."
Asyndeton
"The next time I have a daughter, I hope it's a boy."
Paradox
“Together, we can put a stop to this, and we must throw these heartless zealots out of this country for
good."
Oxymoron
Lieutenant General Raymond T. Odierno
"At the dawn of spring last year, a single act of terror brought forth the long, cold winter in our
hearts. The people of Oklahoma City are mourning still.”
MetaphorAl Gore
Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall
burn the living record of your memory.
Zeugma
Virgil
“Poultry is like meat, except when you cook it rare. Then it's like bird-flavored Jell-o.”
Periphrasis
P. J. O’rourke
“I left my body laying somewhere/In the sands of time
I watched the world float to the dark/Side of the
moon.”
Imagery
Kryptonite
"Yes, our teeth and ambitions are bared."
Syllepsis
Scar
from The Lion King
"A minimum wage that is not a livable wage can never be a
minimum wage."
Epanalepsis
Ralph Nader
"Why you got scars and knots on your head from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet. And
every one of those scars is evidence against the American white man.”
Hyperbole
Malcolm X
“Smoke on your pipe and put that in.”
Hysteron Proteron
"We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying
of prayers—in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.”
Parallelism
George W. Bush
"Once again, the heart of America is heavy. The spirit of America weeps for a tragedy that denies
the very meaning of our land.”
Personification
Lyndon Baines Johnson
“Surprise your new love has arrived out of the blue clear sky.”
Anastrophe
"Give us this day our daily bread."
Synecdoche
Matthew 6:11
"I feel the need, the need for speed."
Assonance
Tom Cruise Top Gun
All for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been
ready to face the fire at freedom’s front.
Alliteration
Ronald Reagan
"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
Apostrophe
1 Corinthians 15:55
“You can be my cinderella.”
Allusion
Rhianna and Chris Brown
“I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of
it.”
Sarcasm
Mark Twain
“Oh never try to knock on rotten wood.”
Consonance
"In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God."
ClimaxJohn 1:1-2
"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent
as doves.”
Paradox
Matthew 10:16
"Gift him with Playboy."
Anthimeria
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women,
French to men, and German to my horse."
Isocolon
Charles V
“Cuz rite now thou has forsaken us”
Archaism
"In years gone by, there were in every community men and women who spoke the language of duty
and morality and loyalty and obligation.”
Polysyndeton
William F. Buckley
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
Antanaclasis
Groucho Marx
“The Whitehouse released a report earlier today.”
Metonymy
"Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a — you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity.
And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.”
Tautology
George W. Bush
The relationship between The Lord of the Rings and the World Wars.
Allegory
J. R. R. Tolkein
"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”
Paraprosdokian
Will Rogers
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no
virtue.”
Antithesis
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes
puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
Paranomasia
Fred Allen
Concentration Camp
Euphemism
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Irony
Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM
"To raise a happy, healthy, and hopeful child, it takes a family; it takes teachers; it takes clergy; it takes business people; it takes
community leaders; it takes those who protect our health and safety. It takes all of us.”
Anaphora
Hillary Clinton
“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices
pitches a key higher.”
Synaesthesia
Nick Carraway
We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and
applied his undivided attention to beefsticks done rare.”
Praeteritio
"Science! True daughter of Old Time thou art!"
Apostrophe
Edgar Allan Poe
“Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling”
Cacophony
Walt Whitman
"Don't you surrender! Suffering breeds character; character breeds faith; in the end faith will not
disappoint. You must not surrender…”
Anadiplosis
Jesse Jackson
"The sinews of war are five--men, money, materials, maintenance (food), and morale."
Parenthesis
Ernest Hemmingway
"The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms
that divides us has come.”
Epistrophe
Nelson Mandela
"His time a moment, and a point his space."
ChiasmusAlexander Pope
The end!