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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 Rhetorical Question
100%
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 Irony
67%
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 Anaphora
50%
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 Anecdote
50%
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain Pun
50%
...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 Antithesis
33%
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!”-William Shakespeare – Romeo & Juliet Metaphor
33%
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on thelanding 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 Repetition
33%
Somewhere at this very moment a child is being born inAmerica. 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 Alliteration
17%
And I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see thatwounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side.” -George W. Bush -- Inaugural Address, 2000 Allusion
17%
There is No Frigate like a BookTo 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 Analogy
17%
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 Assonance
17%
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume …” -Walt White, Song of Myself Consonance
17%
I had to wait in the station for ten days– an eternity.” -Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Hyperbole
17%
Up Juxtaposition
17%
An apostle of non-violence has been the victim of violence.”-Hubert H. Humphrey -- Remarks On The Assassination of MLK, Jr., 1968 Paradox
17%
Once again, the heart of America is heavy. The spirit ofAmerica weeps for a tragedy that denies the very meaning of our land.” -Lyndon B. Johnson -- Address on the Assassination of MLK, Jr., 1968 Personification
17%
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers.” -The U.S. Postal Service Creed Polysyndeton
17%
...until justice rolls down like waters and righteousnesslike a mighty stream.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I Have A Dream, 1963 Simile
17%
...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 Epistrophe
0%
When the enemy struck on that June day of 1950, whatdid 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 Hypophora
0%
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 Parallel Structure
0%
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 Tone
0%
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