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Hint
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Answer
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Can anyone look at our reduced standing in the world today and say, ‘Let's have four more years of this’?” -Ronald Reagan -- Republican National Convention, 1980
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Rhetorical Question
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In O. Henry’s famous short story The Gift of the Magi, a husband sells his prized watch so that he can buy combs as a gift for his wife. Meanwhile, the wife sells her beautiful hair so she can buy a watch-chain for her husband. The characters’ actions contradict each other’s expectations and their efforts to give each other gifts make the gifts useless
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Irony
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An apostle of non-violence has been the victim of violence.” -Hubert H. Humphrey -- Remarks On The Assassination of MLK, Jr., 1968
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Paradox
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain
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Pun
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A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.” -Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
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Tone
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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 B. Johnson -- Address on the Assassination of MLK, Jr., 1968
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Personification
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Up
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Juxtaposition
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When the enemy struck on that June day of 1950, what did America do? It did what it always has done in all its times of peril. It appealed to the heroism of its youth.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower -- I Shall Go to Korea Address Speech, 1952
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Hypophora
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Somewhere at this very moment a child is being born in America. Let it be our cause to give that child a happy home, a healthy family, and a hopeful future.” -Bill Clinton -- Democratic National Convention, 1992
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Alliteration
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And I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side.” -George W. Bush -- Inaugural Address, 2000
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Allusion
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Oh, I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts’ secrets, Igor. Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished.” -Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Anecdote
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” -John F. Kennedy -- Inaugural Address, 1961
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Parallel Structure
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People of the world – look at Berlin! Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans... Look at Berlin, where the determination... Look at Berlin, where the bullet holes... People of the world – look at Berlin…” -Barack Obama -- Berlin Speech, 2008
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Anaphora
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...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, 1968
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Antithesis
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There is No Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul –” -Poem by Emily Dickinson
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Analogy
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...until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I Have A Dream, 1963
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Simile
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“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!” -William Shakespeare – Romeo & Juliet
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Metaphor
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We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” -Winston Churchill -- We Shall Fight On The Beaches, 1940
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Repetition
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Our flag is red, white, and blue -- but our nation is rainbow. Red, yellow, brown, black, and white, we're all precious in God's sight.” -Jesse Jackson -- Democratic National Convention, 1984
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Assonance
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume …” -Walt White, Song of Myself
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Consonance
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...this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” -Abraham Lincoln -- Gettysburg Address, 1863
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Epistrophe
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers.” -The U.S. Postal Service Creed
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Polysyndeton
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I had to wait in the station for ten days– an eternity.” -Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Hyperbole
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