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I. Inaugural Address1.Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has beenpassed to a new generation of Americans, ………to which this nation has always been committed, and to whom we are committed today at home and around the world.(alliteration)2.United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is littlewe can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. (antithesis) 3.But we shall always hope to find..…and to remember that…...those who foolishly soughtpower by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (metaphor)4.If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.(antithesis)5.But his peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. (metaphor)6.And let every other power know that his hemisphere intends to remain the master of its ownhouse. (metaphor)7.To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations…..we renew our pledge ofsupport:…….to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run. (metaphor)8.But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort……………., yet bothracing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.(synecdoche)9.Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems whichdivide us. (antithesis)10.And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides joinin creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power……(metaphor)11.The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our county andall who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. (metaphor)12.And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can dofor your country. (antithesis)II. Everyday Use1.I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like anuncooked barley pancake. (simile)2.Maggie’s hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keepstrying to pull it back. (simile)3.When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to thesoles of my feet. XIII. The Trial That Rocked the World1.……Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waitingfor the court to open. (transferred epithet)2.Darrow walked slowly round the baking court. (transferred epithet)3.The crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hotbreath of his oratory as he should have. (metaphor)4.Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan has swept the political arena like a prairiefire. (simile)5.He appealed for intellectual freedom, and accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the deathbetween science and religion. (metaphor)6.Then the court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that for Bryan. (metaphor)7.One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT—INSIDE. (pun)8.Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat.”(oxymoron)9.The oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the littlecourt in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative offices of the United States, bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has grown with the passing years. (metaphor)IV. Love is A Fallacy1.Charles Lam, as merry and enterprising a fellow as ………….unfettered the informal essaywith his memorable Old China and Dream’s Children. (metaphor)2.There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb’s frontier. (metaphor)10.Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being adry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma.(metaphor and hyperbole)4.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as ascalpel. (simile and hyperbole)5.It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. (hyperbole)6.Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (simile)7.My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. (mixed metaphor)8.She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule myhead. (metonymy)9.It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girlbeautiful. (antithesis)10.In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. (metaphor)11.I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left. (transferred epithet)12.First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window. (metaphor)13.Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning. (antithesis)14.This loomed as a project of no small dimensions. (understatement or litotes)15.We went to the Knoll, the campus trysting place, and we sat down under an old oak,…..(implied allusion)16.Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. (metonymy)(Otherwise you havecommitted a logical fallacy called “a dicto simpliciter…)17.You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker. (metonymy) (You have committed thelogical fallacy called post hoc,….)18.If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. (antithesis)19.Petey lay snoring in his bed, the raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet.(simile)20.Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybesomehow I could fan them into flame. (metaphor)21.After all, surgeons have x-rays to guide them during an operation…(metonymy) (Surgeonsuse X-ray photographs to guide them during an operation.22.There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. (synecdoche)23.The next fallacy is called Poisoning the Well. (metaphor) (The writer compares “the personalattack on a person holding some thesis” to “poisoning the well”24.The first man has poisoned the well before anybody could drink from it. (metaphor)25.He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start…. (metaphor) (comparing thespeaker’s personal attach to disabling a person by cutting one of the tendons at the back of the knee.)26.It was like digging a tunnel. (simile)27.“Polly, I love you, You are the whole world to me, and the stars………space. (hyperbole)28.I will wander the face of ….. , hollow-eyed hulk. (hyperbole)29.I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat. (allusions)(He planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for himself; but he became Frankenstein for Polly (his student) ultimately rejected him (her teacher)30.You’re darn right. (euphemism) (“darn” is used her for “damn”)31.I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. (simile)32.“The rat!” I shrieked. (metaphor)33.Look at me—a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future. Lookat Petey—a knot head, a jitterbug, a guy who’ll never know where his next meal is coming from. (antithesis)V. Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U.S.S.R1.I see also the dull drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarmof crawling locusts. (simile)2.I asked whether for him, the arch anti-Communist, this was not bowing down in the House ofRimmon. (allusion)3.The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.(metaphor)4.Still smarting from many a British whipping. (metaphor)5.Behind all this glare, behind all this storm, I see that small group of villainous men who plan,organize, and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind…(metaphor)6.Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our air. Any man or state whomarches with Hitler is our foe. (antithesis)7.The Russian danger is therefore our danger, ……fighting for his hearth and home is the causeof free men and free peoples …..of the globe. (alliteration)8.….rid the earth of his shadow and liberate its peoples from his yoke. (metaphor)9.Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. (alliteration)Simile1.As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far county.2.The water lay gray and wrinkled like an elephant’s skin.3.My very thoughts were like the ghostly rustle of dead leaves.Metaphor1.Boys and girls, tumbling in the streets and playing, were moving jewels.2.Snow clothes the ground.3.The town was stormed after a long siege.4.He swam bravely against the tide of popular applause.5.This is not the time to throw up the sponge, when the enemy, already weakened and divided,are on the run to a new defensive position. (mixed metaphor；a mixture of prized—ring and battle field)6.There is every indication that Nigeria will be a tower of strength and will forge ahead. (mixedmetaphor; a mixture of a fortress and a ship)Metonymy1.Gray hairs should be respected.2.He is too fond of the bottle.3.I have never read Li Bai.Synecdoche1.Have you any coppers? (=Have you any money?) (coppers stand for coins of low value madeof copper or bronze; here it is the naming of the material (copper) for the thing made (coin))2.He is a poor creature. (the naming of the genus for the species.)3.He is the Newton of this century.EuphemismPass away—die, misinform—lie, remains—corpse, visiting the necessary—going to the toiletHyperbole1.The wave ran mountain high.2.America laughed with Mark Twain.3.His speech brought the house down.4.All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.Antithesis1.The quest for righteousness is Oriental, the quest for knowledge, Occidental.2.Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we thinkof the other person.3. A friend exaggerates a man’s virtues, an enemy his crimes.4.The convention bought time; it could not bring settlement.5.Its failures became a part of history but its successes held the clue to a better internationalorder.Paradox1.One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.2. A lover of peace emerged as a magnificent leader of war.3.My life closed twice before its close.Oxymoron1.Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.2.Necessity is the mother of invention.3.The child is father of the man.4.Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.Irony1.….until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century.2.He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is anhonorable man.Sarcasm1.“Oh,, you’re really a great friend, aren’t you?”2.He is very generous indeed.3.Where’s y’ go for it, man—Jamaica?Satire1.They’ll be wanderin’ in any time now, sir, --with Old Grape’n’ ’ Guts leadin’ the pack.2.Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted in his prosecution by his son…Tom Stewart.3.Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.Alliteration1.We felt strong, smug, secure.2.Colonel Mueller neither forgives nor forgets.3.They pay in taxes needed in part to finance Medicare and Medicaid.lions depend for their bread and butter on FBI’s smile or its scowl.5.The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow followed free.Pun1.One shop announced: Darwin Is Right—Inside.2.Seven days without water make one weak.3.If we don’t hang together, we shall assuredly hang separate.4.Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.。