Pg. 341 Larry Examples and Exercise #5

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Antithesis

Alas, art is long, and life is short.

Antimetabole

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Anaphora

But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters;...when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness" - then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.

Zeugma

Flowers are as common here...as people are in London.

Antithesis

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed

Zeugma

He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.

Antithesis

One not only has a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just law. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Zeugma

Someone sent me a T-shirt not long ago that read "Well-behaved Women Don't Make History." They don't make good lawyers, either, or doctors, or business women.

Antithesis

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Anaphora

To spend too much time in studies is to sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.

Antimetabole

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us

Anaphora

Where just is denied, where poverty is enforced, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe


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