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Quiz #2
Examples
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Asyndeton | "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardships, support any friend, oppose any goe to assure the survival and the sucess of liberty." -J.F Kennedy |
| Oxymoron | I must be cruel only to be kind. |
| Chiasmus | "Those gallant men will remain often in my thoughts and in my prayers always." -MacArthur |
| Polysyndeton | "...and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights..." -Hemingway |
| Syllepsis | "We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang seperately." -Benjamin Franklin |
| Anaphora | "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France." -Winston Churchill |
| Antistrophe | "In 1931, 10 yeras ago, Japan invaded Manchukuo-without warning. In 1938, Hitler occupied Austria-without warning." |
| Simile | "Reason is to faith as the eye to the telescope." "Like a patient etherized upon a table." "My love is as a fever." |
| Personification | "England expects every man to do his dute." -Lord Nelson |
| Cacophony | "We want no parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your wicked will." -Winston Churchill |