Tropes and Schemes Practice, Part II

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Tropes and Schemes Practice, Part II

Tropes and Schemes Practice, Part II

Figurative Language

1. "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse." (Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, 1704)

2. "Men's words are bullets, that their enemies take up and make use of against them." (George Savile, Maxims)

3. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way." (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)

4. When applied to people, animal names are usually ______: coot, old bat, pig, chicken, snake…for example.

5. Rachel Berry: Mr. Schuester, do you have any idea how ridiculous it is to give the lead solo in "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat" to a boy in a wheelchair? Artie Abrams: I think Mr. Schue is using ______to enhance the performance. Rachel Berry: There's nothing ______about show choir! (Pilot episode of Glee, 2009)

6. "I have found the ______, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." (Mother Teresa)

7. "Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me. (John Donne, "Death be not proud")

8. "I violated the Noah rule: predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does." (Warren Buffett)

9. "There's a lady wants to see you. Miss Peters her name is." (P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh, 1915) 10. "Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly--mostly--let them have their whiteness." (Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969)

11. "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit." (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

12. "[Nick Faldo] speaks in a jaunty, clipped, wised-up vernacular, mixing street-smart patter with solid analysis. His vocabulary is rich in curious ______--'jeepers,' 'crumbs,' 'gee'--and eccentric asides." (Jason Cowley, "Nick's Second Coming." The Guardian, Oct. 1, 2006)

13. "Why, they've got ten volumes on suicide alone. Suicide by race, by color, by occupation, by sex, by seasons of the year, by time of day. Suicide, how committed: by poisons, by firearms, by drowning, by leaps. Suicide by poison, subdivided by types of poison, such as corrosive, irritant, systemic, gaseous, narcotic, alkaloid, protein, and so forth. Suicide by leaps, subdivided by leaps from high places, under the wheels of trains, under the wheels of trucks, under the feet of horses, from steamboats. But Mr. Norton, of all the cases on record, there's not one single case of suicide by leap from the rear end of a moving train." (Edward G. Robinson as insurance agent Barton Keyes in Double Indemnity, 1944)

Types of sentences (Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex) 14. "He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

(George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859)

15. "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph." (Ken Kesey)

16. "For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged." (Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, 1983)

17. "Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts." (Aldous Huxley, "Holy Face." Do What You Will, 1929)

Other Types of Sentences (Cumulative, Hortative, Imperative, Periodic)

18. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." (Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society, 1989)

19. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841)

20. "Her moving wings ignited like tissue paper, enlarging the circle of light in the clearing and creating out of the darkness the sudden blue sleeves of my sweater, the green leaves of jewelweed by my side, the ragged red trunk of a pine." (Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm. Harper & Row, 1977) 21. “Let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him …, to do all which may achieve… peace.” (Abraham Lincoln)

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