I. Inaugural Address
1. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been pasd 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 little we 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…...tho who foolishly sought power 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. (metapho
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6. And let every other power know that his hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own hou. (metaphor)
7. To that world asmbly of sovereign states, the United Nations…..we renew our pledge of support:…….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 both racing 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 tho problems which divide us. (antithesis)
10. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in 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 and all who rve 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 do for your country. (antithesis)
II. Everyday U
1. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. (simile)
2. Maggie’s hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying 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 the soles of my feet. X
III. The Trial That Rocked the World
1. ……Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open. (transferred epithet)
2. Darrow walked slowly round the baking court. (transferred epithet)
3. The crowd emed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breath 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 prairie fire. (simile)
5. He appealed for intellectual freedom, and accud Bryan of calling for a duel to the death between science and religion. (metaphor)
6. Then the court broke into a storm of applau that surpasd 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 little court 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 Fallacy
1. Charles Lam, as merry and enterprising a fellow as ………….unfettered the informal essay with 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 a dry, 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 preci as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. (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 my head. (metonymy)
9. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful. (antithesis)
