School by Kyoko Mori

"But none of them can go back to college to earn a second degree...as their American counterparts may do"

• oxymoron

• juxtaposition

• syllepsis

• meiosis

“My education at a traditional Japanese grade school was nothing so glorious”

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

"In so many ways, Japan is a place of no second chances. many of my friends are in very unhappy marriages. They write to me about the shouting and shoving matches they have with their husbands, about the night they tried to run away, only to have the husband chase them down the street, catch them, and drag them home..."

• litotes

• pathos

• hyperbole

• cacophony

"In calligraphy and other traditional arts derived from Zen, following the correct form is everything - there is no possibility that you can make a few minor mistakes and still "get" the spirit or the essence of the "truth"... In America, where teachers actually value the overall spirit of the work, they spend most of their time talking about details."

• paradox

• logos

• juxtaposition

• oxymoron

"The teacher is like the biblical God, whom you cannot name"

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• metonymy

"If we didn't follow the format, we got poor grades"

• ethos

• pathos

• logos