Pg. 341 Larry Examples and Exercise #5
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