Identify the rhetorical device and explain it:

1. "Let us go forth to lead the land we love" - J. F. Kennedy

"My style is public negotiations for parity, rather than private negotiations for position" - Jesse

Jackson

"Veni, vidi, vinci " - Julius Caesar

"We want no parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your wicked will" -Winston Churchill

"That power ... which derives strength and perverted pleasure from persecution" - Sir Winston

Churchill

"Step forward, Tin Man. You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking,
clattering collection of caliginous junk...And you, Scarecrow, have the effrontery to ask for a brain!
You billowing baleof bovine fodder !" - the Wizard of Oz

“Our party ...has always been at its best when we’ve led not by polls, but by principle; not
by calculation, but by conviction ...” - Barack Obama

"You'll never put a better bit o' butter on your knife" -advertising slogan, Country Life butter

2."You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first. 'Tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's
size" - Shakespeare

"If you take his parking place, you can expect World War II all over again"

3. "I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a
king of England, too" - Queen Elizabeth I

4. "I am Sam, Sam I am" - Dr. Seuss (Green Eggs and Ham)

"The love of wicked men converts to fear , 

That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both 
To worthy danger and deserved death" - William Shakespeare

"Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and
servants of business" - Francis Bacon

"They call for you: the general who became a slave ; the slave who became a gladiator;
the gladiator who defied an Emperor" - Joaquin Phoenix (from the movie Gladiator )

5."Knowledge always desires increase: it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external
agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself" - Samuel Johnson

6. "To think on death it is a misery,/ To think on life it is a vanity;/ To think on the world verily it is,/ To
think that here man hath no perfect bliss" - Peacham

"But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of
the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One
hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of
material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American
society and finds himself an exile in his own land" - Martin Luther King, Jnr.

"But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground " -

Abraham Lincoln
“For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and travelled across oceans in search of a
new life. For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and
ploughed the hard earth. For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg;
Normandy and Khe Sahn” - Barack Obama

"Brylcreem, a little dab'll do ya,

Brylcreem, you'll look so debonair!
Brylcreem, the gals'll all pursue ya!" - advertising jingle for Brylcreem

"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the
country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun" - Raymond Chandler (Farewell, My Lovely)"

"I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV
in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls. I’m sick of eating hoagies! I want a
grinder, a sub, a foot-long hero! I want to LIVE, Marge!" - Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

"Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last
night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake
Island. And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island" - Franklin D Roosevelt

7."A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break the
bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day . An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of
men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight!" - King Aragorn (from the movie
'The Return of the King'),

"It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we
can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the
darkest of nights: Yes, we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and
pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can" - Barack Obama

8."I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character" -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools" - Martin Luther King, Jr

"Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves . That's why
all progress depends on unreasonable men" - George Bernard Shaw

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor bastard die
for his country" - General George Patton

"That's one small step for a man , one giant leap for mankind" --Neil Armstrong

"To be or not to be , that is the question" - William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

“The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic
Product, but on the reach of our prosperity ...” - Barack Obama

"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)

9."Our flag is red, white, and blue -- but our national is rainbow. Red, yellow, brown, black, and white
, we're all precious in God's sight" - Jesse Jackson
"I feel the need , the need for speed" -- Tom Cruise (from the movie Top Gun)

"The odious apparatus of Nazi rule" - Winston Churchill

"It beats as it sweeps as it cleans" - advertising slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners

10."We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardships, support any friend, oppose any
foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty" - JF Kennedy, Inaugural

Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the
justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint” -
Barack Obama

11." But just because you're born in the slum does not mean the slum is born in you, and you can
rise above it if your mind is made up" - Jesse Jackson

"It's not the men in my life that counts: it's the life in my men " - Mae West

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for
your country" -- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going" - unknown

"Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done"-
President George W Bush

"If black men have no rights in the eyes of the white men, of course the whites can have none in the
eyes of the blacks" - Frederick Douglass

"The true test is not the speeches the president delivers; it's if the president delivers on the
speeches" - Hilary Clinton

"I'd rather be looked over than overlooked" - Mae West (again)

"Is man one of God's blunders or God one of man's blunders?" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"One should eat to live, not live to eat" - Cicero

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order" - Alfred
North Whitehead

"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that
is original is not good" - Samuel Johnson

12."Veni, vidi, vinci " - Julius Caesar ("I came, I saw, I conquered")

"And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a merry Christmas, and God
bless all of you, all of you on the good earth" - Frank Borman, Apollo 8 astronaut

And now I ask you ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, for the good of all of us, for the love
of this great nation, for the family of America, for the love of God ; please make this nation
remember how futures are built " - Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York

13."Free at last, free at last ; thank God almighty, free at last!" - Martin Luther King
"The people everywhere , not just here in Britain, everywhere -- they kept faith with Princess
Diana" - Tony Blair

14."You don't need to be Einstein to see that .... "

"That little Hitler is fooling nobody"

"We all must realize that Uncle Sam is not supposed to be Santa Claus"

15."Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and I can say without
hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together" - Kent Brockman (The
Simpsons)

"This chicken is so underdone a skilled vet could probably bring it back to life"

Or you can exaggerate one thing to show how really different it is from something supposedly similar
to which it is being compared:

"This stuff is used motor oil compared to the coffee at Starbuck's"

16."When the enemy struck on that June day of 1950, what did America do? It did what it always
has done in all its times of peril. It appealed to the heroism of its youth" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"'But there are only three hundred of us,' you object. Three hundred, yes, but men, but armed, but
Spartans, but at Thermoplyae: I have never seen three hundred so numerous" - Seneca

17."I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations" - Martin
Luther King, Jr.

18."The situation has developed, not necessarily to our advantage" - Emperor Hirohito, announcing
to the Japanese people that atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

"It's just a flesh wound" - The Black Knight, having just had both arms chopped off, in Monty Python
and the Holy Grail

"I'm going outside and may be some time" - Capt. Lawrence Oates, Antarctic explorer, before
leaving his tent to certain death in a blizzard, 1912

19."We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but notdestroyed". —2 Corinthians 4:8-9

"Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift
America’s graduation rate to its highest level in more than three decades. An entrepreneur flipped
on the lights in her tech startup, and did her part to add to the more than eight million new jobs our
businesses have created over the past four years. An autoworker fine-tuned some of the best, most
fuel-efficient cars in the world, and did his part to help America wean itself off foreign oil". - President
Obama, 2014 SOTU

"American leadership depends on a military so strong that no one would think to engage it. Our
military strength depends on aneconomy so strong that it can support such a military. And our
economy depends on a people so strong, so educated, so resolute, so hard working, so inventive,
and so devoted to their children's future, that other nations look at us with respect and admiration" -
Mitt Romney

20.Fido was the friendliest of all St. Bernards, nay of all dogs"
"And if I am still far from the goal, the fault is my own for not paying heed to the reminders-- nay, the
virtual directions --which I have had from above" - Marcus Aurelius

"Even a blind man can see, as the saying is, that poetic language gives a certain grandeur to prose,
except that some writers imitate the poets quite openly, or rather they do not so much imitate them
as transpose their words into their own work, as Herodotus does" -Demetrius

21."From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the
Continent" - Sir Winston Churchill

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" - William Shakespeare

"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind
upon a cross of gold" - WJ Bryan, arguing against the introduction of the Gold Standard

"It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity" - Martin Luther King Jnr.

"The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans" - President JF Kennedy

"The mother of all battles" - Sadaam Hussein

“The (Presidential Oath has) been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of
peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms” -Barack
Obama

22."... you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or who you love" -
Barack Obama

"Because in those eyes, they will see what my parents saw in me, and what your parents saw
in you" - Marco Rubio

23."In 1931, ten years ago, Japan invaded Manchukuo -- without warning . In 1935, Italy invaded
Ethiopia -- without warning . In 1938, Hitler occupied Austria -- without warning . In 1939, Hitler
invaded Czechoslovakia -- without warning. Later in 1939, Hitler invaded Poland -- without warning .
And now Japan has attacked Malaya and Thailand -- and the United States -- without warning" -
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Veni, vidi, vinci " - Julius Caesar ("I came, I saw, I conquered")

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of
liberty" -- John F. Kennedy,

"We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've
seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers -- in
English, Hebrew, and Arabic" - George W. Bush

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the
Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son,
husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance -- in this life or the next" -Russell Crowe
(from the movie Gladiator)

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I will learn" - Benjamin
Franklin
“Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive,
our goods and services no less needed" - Barack Obama

24."Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and
scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as
with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so
with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver
of usury to him" --Isaiah 24:1-2

". . . and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights and windows broke and
boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out
and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Bay and she was all right only she was full of
water"- Ernest hemingway (After the Storm)

"Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were
raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual
ambitions;greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction" - Barack Obama

25.That part of our history detailing the military achievements which gave us our several
possessions ... is a theme too familiar to my listeners for me to dilate on, and I shall therefore pass it
by" - Thucydides

"Let us make no judgment on the events of Chappaquiddick , since the facts are not yet all in" - a
political opponent of Senator Edward Kennedy

Sometimes it is used to draw attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over:

"It would be unseemly for me to dwell on the honourable member's drinking problem, and too many
have already sensationalized his womanizing..."

26."So, I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. 'Mine eyes have
seen the glory of the coming of the Lord' " -- Martin Luther King, Jr,

27."He bestrides this narrow world like a colossus" - William Shakespeare

"My love is like a red, red rose " - Robert Burns

"Let us go then, you and I, where the evening is spread out across the sky like a patient etherised
upon a table" - T.S. Eliot

"We're going to go through them like crap through a goose" - General George Patton

"Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon
animals"- Simon Hoggart

"It's like being savaged by a dead sheep" - Labour politician Dennis Healey on being verbally
attacked by Tory minister Sir Geoffrey Howe

28."Government of the people, by the people, for the people" ... President Abraham Lincoln

"Never in the history of human endeavour has so much been owed by so many to so few" ... Sir
Winston Churchill                                               

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I will learn” – Benjamin
Franklin
“The God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance  to pursue their full
measure of happiness" - Barack Obama

In the following exercise I invite you to identify the figures of speech.

1. "I've had some long nights in the stir. Alone in the dark with nothing but your thoughts, time can
draw out like a blade. That was the longest night of my life."

-- delivered by Morgan Freeman (from the movie The Shawshank Redemption)

2. "This generation of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen have volunteered in
the time of certain danger. They are part of the finest fighting force that the world has ever
known. They have served tour after tour of duty in distant,different, and difficult places...They are
men and women -- white, black, and brown -- of all faiths and all stations -- all Americans, serving
together to protect our people, while giving others half a world away the chance to lead a better
life....In today’s wars, there's not always a simple ceremony that signals our troops’success --
no surrender papers to be signed, or capital to beclaimed...."

-- Barack Obama, Fort Hood Memorial Service Speech

3. "This is radical feminism. The agenda that Clinton & Clinton would impose on America: abortion
on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious
schools, women in combat units. That's change, all right. But that's not the kind of change America
needs. It's not the kind of change America wants. And it's not the kind of change we can abide in a
nation we still call 'God's country.'"

-- Pat Buchanan, Republican National Convention Culture Wars Addressr set of words.

4. "Now, first I should define my terms: 'man' and 'God.' By man, of course, I mean society  -- social
man...."

-- Timothy Leary, LSD: Methods of Control

5. "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the
earth."

- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (here delivered by Jeff Daniels)

6. "The lesson we have to learn is that our dislike for certain persons does not give us any right to
injure our fellow creatures. The social rule must be: 'Live and let live.'"

-- George Bernard Shaw

7. "And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck,a merry Christmas, and God
bless all of you, all of you on the good earth."

-- Frank Borman, Astronaut

8. "I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and
a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice."

-- Martin Luther King, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance

9. "I believe that I have learned the most important thing that has happened in Britain during the last
six years. It was not, I think, the demonstration of physical courage."

-- Edward R. Murrow

10. You know, this moment right here, it's -- it's unbelievably believable. You know, it's unbelievable
because in the moment, we're all amazed when great things happen. But it's believable because,
you know, great things don't happen without hard work.

-- Robert Griffin III, 2011 Heisman Trophy Acceptance Address

11. "Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war -- not history's forces, northe times, nor justice, nor the
lack of it, nor causes, nor religions,nor ideas, nor kinds of government -- not any other thing. We are
the killers."

-- delivered by Katherine Hepburn (from the movie The Lion in Winter)