Chapter 2 examples

Anthropomorphism

"...Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough."

Archaic Diction

"...beliefs for which our forebears fought..."

Allusion

"...the command of Isaiah-to 'undo the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go free'."

Tone

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." "If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody." "******* money. It always ends up making you blue as hell." "Catholics are always trying to find out if you're Catholic."

Antimetabole

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

Rhetorical question

"Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?

Alliteration

"Dark and desolate" "marvelous new militancy"

Antithesis

"Give me liberty or give me death." "you're easy on the eyes, hard on the heart."

Cumulative sentence

"He doubted whether he could ever again appear before his audience, his confidence broken, his limbs shaking, his collar wet with perspiration."

Asyndeton

"He was brave, fearless. afraid of nothing."

Parallelism and antithesis

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Simile

"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."

Chiasmus

"It is boring to eat; to sleep is fulfilling."

Caesura

"It is for you we speak, / / not for ourselves" "you are abused / / and by some putter-on"

Hortative sentence

"Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us."

Imperative sentence

"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

Hyperbole

"My first and last name together generally served the same purpose as a high brick wall."

Apostrophe

"Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart and leave me in darkness."

Zeugma

"The butler killed the lights and then the mistress." "I quickly dressed myself and the salad."

Metonymy

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

Mood

"There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago: and those at Wuthering Heights were never visible."

Inversion

"United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do."

Synecdoche

"United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures." "My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

Juxtaposition

"We are the heirs of that first revolution. Let word go forth...the torch that has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century..."

Parallelism

"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."

Metaphor

"and if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion..."

Oxymoron

"eloquent silence"

Periodic sentence

"over this rocky area relieved by a few shady tall persimmon trees the graduating class walked."

Anaphora

"we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence..."

Epistrophe

"who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him I have offended." "Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him I have offended."

Polysyndeton

If elected, I will listen to the people and act on their concerns and convince my colleagues we were right.

Compound sentence

Mary and Samantha arrived at the bus station before noon, and they left on the bus before I arrived

Personification

The angry clouds in the hateful sky cruelly spat down on the poor man who had forgotten his umbrella.

Syntax

The way words are grouped. Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex.