Speakers appeal to emotion to motivate their audience.

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea.

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.

A paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words.

Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point.

Sentence used to command or enjoin.

A description of how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds.

A figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or character says one thing but means something else, or when what is said is the opposite of what is expected , creating a noticeable incongruity.

Placement of two things close together to emphasize similarities or differences.

Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as.

Speakers appeal to reason by offering clear rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up.

A figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, urgent, good, and so on, than it actually is, often for satiric or comical effect.

The use of irony or sarcasm to critique society or an individual.

A figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it explicitly to something else, using the words like, as, or as though.

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.

Opposition or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction.

Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art or literature.

A sentence that includes two independent clauses.

Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action.

A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.

Speakers use this appeal to demonstrate that they are credible or trustworthy.

“This place is like a Garden of Eden.”

Money is the root of all evil: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.

"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude." -Jesse Jackson

California girls, We're unforgettable, Daisy Dukes, Bikinis on top, Sun-kissed skin so hot, We'll melt your popsicle.

-Katy Perry, "California Gurls"

“The child is father of the man…” -William Wordsworth

“I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”-J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.” -Stephen Colbert

The name of Britain’s biggest dog was “Tiny.”

Weirdly normal

His car suffered a severe stroke in the middle of the road, and refused to move forward.

“Five years have passed;

Five summers, with the length of

Five long winters! and again I hear these waters…”-William Wordsworth "Tintern Abbey"

I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me.

It's been a hard days night, and I've been working like a dog. - "A Hard Day's Night," The Beatles

Words are daggers when spoken in anger.

With two deep wounds on my arms and a couple of sprains and strains here and there, I was still determined to continue moving on the trek by crawling.

“The radiators put out lots of heat, too much, in fact, and old-fashioned sounds and smells came with it, exhalations of the matter that composes our own mortality, and reminiscent of the intimate gases we all diffuse.”-Saul Bellow More Die of Heartbreak

"Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us." -John F. Kennedy

Bring me a glass of water.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

Although the war ended, and as people tend to have short memories, the city’s people were still divided over its impact.