Rhetorical and Literary Terms Quiz #10 Crossword
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1) EXAMPLE: All hands on deck.2) EXAMPLE: I shan’t speak about your being rude, but lying is quite out of the question.4) EXAMPLE: "We lived and laughed and loved and left." ~ from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, 19395) EXAMPLE: “As I sat in the bath tub, soaping a meditative foot and singing, if I remember correctly, ‘Pale Hands I Loved Beside the Shalimar,’ it would be deceiving my public to say that I was feeling boomps-a-daisy." ~ P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, 19546) EXAMPLE: "In 1963, Nobel Prize-winning economist William Vickrey suggested that [automobile] insurance be included in the purchase of tires. Anticipating the objection that this might lead people to drive on bald tires, Vickrey said drivers should get credit for the remaining tread when they turn in a tire. Andrew Tobias proposed a variation on this scheme in which insurance would be included in the price of gasoline. That would have the added benefit of solving the problem of uninsured motorists (roughly 28% of California drivers). As Tobias points out, you can drive a car without insurance, but you can't drive it without gasoline." ~ Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff, "Would You Buy Car Insurance by the Mile?" 'Forbes', 20057) A whole is represented by naming one of its parts (genus named for species), or vice versa (species named for genus).9) EXAMPLE: "We lived and laughed and loved and left." ~ from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, 193911) EXAMPLE: “Flattery hath pleasant beginnings, but the same hath very bitter endings.” — R. Sherry15) EXAMPLE: He is the passion and grace of baseball's last hero.16) EXAMPLE: "I don't thinks it's proving anything, Doc. As a matter of fact, I don't even know what it means. It's just one of those things that gets in my head and keeps rolling around in there like a marble." ~ Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo in the episode "Double Exposure," Columbo17) EXAMPLE: Organ donors put their hearts into it.19) EXAMPLE: "I don't thinks it's proving anything, Doc. As a matter of fact, I don't even know what it means. It's just one of those things that gets in my head and keeps rolling around in there like a marble." ~ Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo in the episode "Double Exposure," Columbo |
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3) EXAMPLE: Organ donors put their hearts into it.8) EXAMPLE: He is the passion and grace of baseball's last hero.10) EXAMPLE: I shan’t speak about your being rude, but lying is quite out of the question.12) EXAMPLE: She had set more track records than any woman in the country. She had more stamina, skill, and perseverance than many of the best, but she had broken her leg and would not be competing this year.13) EXAMPLE: "In 1963, Nobel Prize-winning economist William Vickrey suggested that [automobile] insurance be included in the purchase of tires. Anticipating the objection that this might lead people to drive on bald tires, Vickrey said drivers should get credit for the remaining tread when they turn in a tire. Andrew Tobias proposed a variation on this scheme in which insurance would be included in the price of gasoline. That would have the added benefit of solving the problem of uninsured motorists (roughly 28% of California drivers). As Tobias points out, you can drive a car without insurance, but you can't drive it without gasoline." ~ Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff, "Would You Buy Car Insurance by the Mile?" 'Forbes', 200514) EXAMPLE: A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. The hero personality then advocates the positions that the individual desires to promote. For example, some hire popular personalities to promote their ideas and/or products.16) EXAMPLE: She had set more track records than any woman in the country. She had more stamina, skill, and perseverance than many of the best, but she had broken her leg and would not be competing this year.17) EXAMPLE: Drama (plays), articles, novels (fiction), and short stories.18) EXAMPLE: “As I sat in the bath tub, soaping a meditative foot and singing, if I remember correctly, ‘Pale Hands I Loved Beside the Shalimar,’ it would be deceiving my public to say that I was feeling boomps-a-daisy." ~ P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, 195419) EXAMPLE: “Flattery hath pleasant beginnings, but the same hath very bitter endings.” — R. Sherry20) EXAMPLE: Drama (plays), articles, novels (fiction), and short stories. |
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