Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech to Baseball Address

"I've been reading about a bad break I got." This is an example of what?

• Euphemism
• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Understatement and Euphemism

"I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

• Hyperbole
• Euphemism
• Epistrophe
• Anaphora

Lou Gehrig juxtaposes having a bad break with being the luckiest man on the the face of the earth. T or F

• True
• False

"have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. " This is an example of

• rhetorical ?
• Hyperbole
• Anaphora
• Metaphor

"I'm sure lucky." This is an example

• repetition
• Anaphora
• Epistrophe
• None of the above

Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert?

• Euphemism
• Juxtaposition
• Rhetorical ?
• None of the above

"Also the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow?"This is an example of which two devices?

• Rhetorical ? and Hyperbole
• Rhetorical ? and Understatement
• Rhetorical ? and Anaphora
• none of the above

When begins several of the paragraphs in the second half of the speech what device is being used?

• Understatement
• Anaphora
• Epistrophe
• none of the above.

- - - that's something is an example of what type of repetition?

• Epistrophe
• Anaphora
• both epistrohe and anaphora
• none of the above

The following paragraph all following the same pattern grammatically. What is this called? When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

• Juxtaposition
• Parallelism
• Euphemism
• Understatement