Rhetorical & Literary Terms Review Activity

1. Rhetorical & Literary Terms Review Activity

2. Instructions: • Do not give away the term! • Two student sit face to face with his or her list of terms in hand – terms only, no definitions. • As soon as the example is displayed, the challengers have 25 seconds to identify the term. • This is a shout out competition. First challenger to shout the correct answer wins. • After three incorrect guesses for one slide, the challenger(s) will end his/her turn. • The winner of each slide will accept a new challenger. • The winner of the most slides is the champion.

3. Ready to play?

4. Picture a mother and a father discussing whether or not to get a dog for the family. The father says: “You know, when I was a kid, my dog was my best friend. My childhood was better because of him.” is… The 1 anecdote

5. Rifles were guarding the gate. is… The 2 Metonymy (or personification)

6. The political scientist was asked to give his unbiased opinion on the current issue. is… The 3 oxymoron

7. “Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.” “You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.” “Nobody asked your opinion,” said Alice. “Who’s making personal remarks now?” the Hatter asked triumphantly. (-- Alice in Wonderland) is… The 4 Rhetorical question (or paradox)

8. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” -- The Call of Cthulhu (By H.P. Lovecraft) is… The 5 Metaphor (or paradox)

9. "The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of trail." -- Mario Cuomo, 1984 Democratic National Convention Address is… The 6 Anaphora (or triad or metaphor or satire)

10. "Once again, the heart of America is heavy. The spirit of America weeps for a tragedy that denies the very meaning of our land." -- Lyndon Baines Johnson is… The 7 Personification (or parallelism or metonymy)

11. "With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood." -- Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream is… The 8 Metaphor (or auditory imagery)

12. "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." George W. Bush, 9-20-01 Address to the Nation on Terrorism is… The 9 Parallelism (or triad or kinesthetic or auditory imagery)

13. ““Almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.” -- Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End. is… The 10 repetition

14. “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” -Gandhi is… The 11 paradox

15. "I ask you to look back on your moments of powerlessness. Look back to that moment where you had to get on your knees and scrub and sweep and mop and wax and buff and buff and buff and rebuff and buff again, a floor that someone was going to walk on and promptly scuff two minutes later. That feeling is what it is to be human. Humble yourself and accept your humanity -- and don't deny it in others." -- DeCarol Davis, 2008 US Coast Guard Academy Commencement Address is… The 12 Polysyndeton (or kinesthetic imagery or imperative sentences)

16. She wanted to talk, but there seemed to be an embargo on every subject. At last she recollected that she had been traveling, and they talked of Matlock and Dove Dale with great perseverance. Yet time and her aunt moved slowly—and her patience and her ideas were nearly worn out before the tete-a-tete was over. – Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen is… The 13 Zeugma (or metaphor or personification)

17. "It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. It's like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark and thinking that there's one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down through the air and there's a sickly moment of dark surprise." -- delivered by Jude Law (from the movie A Series of Unfortunate Events) is… The 14 s Simile or understatement or kinesthetic or organic imagery

18. “Brookfield he had liked, almost from the beginning. He remembered that day of his preliminary interview—sunny June, with the air full of flower scents and the plick-plock of cricket on the pitch. Brookfield was playing Barnhurst, and one of the Barnhurst boys, a chubby little fellow, made a brilliant century. Queer that a thing like that should stay in the memory so clearly.”-- from Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton is… The 15 Imagery (visual, olfactory, auditory)

19. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt is… The 16 Personification or triad or imperative sentence

20. “Go ask his name: if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed.” – Juliet’s line from Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare is… The 17 Dramatic irony (or simile)

21. “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.” – Steven Colbert is… The 18 Satire (or sarcasm)

22. "My senior year, I received a call from … Mr. Gil Brandt of the Dallas Cowboys. [They were] interested in drafting me …That year, 1967, the Dallas Cowboys had 137 rookies in training camp. Gil Brandt was signing everybody that could walk. Only five made the team that year, and I was one of the five.” --- Larry Wright, Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction Address is… The 19 Hyperbole or anadiplosis (five ..five)

23. “I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage.” –”Lord Jim” by Joseph Conrad is… The 20 Simile (or personification or auditory and kinesthetic imagery)

24. Fish and visitors smell in three days –Benjamin Franklin is… The 21 Aphorism or metaphor or zeugma

25. “No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, sir, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Sir Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, sir. See the difference?” – from A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin is… The 22 Sarcasm or rhetorical question

26. Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.” --General Douglas MacArthur is… The 23 s Asyndeton (or triad or parallelism)

27. Along the roads, laurels, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler's eye through much of the year … The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. --Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is… The 24 Juxtaposition (or visual imagery or simile)

28. "My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things -- trout as well as eternal salvation -- come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy." - Norman McLean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. is… The 25 Anadiplosis or repetition

29. "Those of us who loved him, and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.’” -- Edward Kennedy, Eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy is… The 26 Antithesis or repetition

30. James Kerr is a forensics and ballistics expert working for the federal government for over two decades – if anyone’s qualified to determine the murder weapon, it’s him. is… The 27 ethos

31. "I have met my Waterloo," the mountain climber said after returning from a failed attempt to conquer Everest is… The 28 allusion

32. The blood was dribbling out of the corner of my mouth. ‘The artery’s gone,’ I thought. I wondered how long you last when your carotid artery is cut; not many minutes, presumably. Everything was very blurry. There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed that I was killed. And that too was interesting. --Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell is… The 29 Understatement or visual or kinesthetic imagery

33. "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. Live long and prosper.” – Spock (Leonard Nemoy) is… The 30 Analogy or paradox or telegraphic and imperative sentence.

34. And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each.”-- from Robert Frost “Mending Wall” is… The 31 Denotations or anadiplosis (To each … each.)

35. "I think it can be said that he now stands with our other American martyrs in the cause of freedom and justice. His death is a terrible tragedy and sorrow -- first of all to his family, to our nation, and to our conscience. The criminal act that took his life brings shame to our country. An apostle of non-violence has been the victim of violence. The cause for which he marched and worked, I am sure, will find a new strength." - Hubert H. Humphrey, Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. is… The 32 Paradox (or triad or juxtaposition)