Examples of All Notes Flashcards
“I didn’t have any bus fare, but fortunately some good Samaritan helped me out!”
“You’re acting like such a Scrooge!”
Allusion
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Argumentation
Aesop’s Fables
Allegory
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n.”
Antithesis
“Busy old fool, unruly Sun”
“Ain’t - am not”
Colloquialism
“Stench, smell, aroma, scent, odor”
“Frugal, economical, stingy, cheap”
Connotation
“Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore.”
“Peter Piper picked a pack of pickle peppers.”
Consonance
“Her eyes were lasers, boring a hole through me. Her ears were smoking, and her hair was on fire”
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Caricature
“All for one and one for all.”
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”
Aphorism
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.”
“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as naught; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.”
Apostrophe
“He is a rotten, dirty, terrible, trudging, stupid dude!”
“Klarissa Klein drives an old, grumbling Cadillac which has a crumpled bumper and screaming, honking horn.”
Cacophony
“Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South.”
“I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;
And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;
And how, once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped for her,
And she balanced in the delight of her thought … “
Enumeration
“That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet”
“Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Analogy
“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”
“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true.”
Parallelism
“Oh, I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts’ secrets, Igor. Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished.”
Anecdote
“I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.”
“As I afterwards learned, the poor scrivener, when told that he must be conducted to the Tombs, offered not the slightest obstacle, but in his pale, unmoving way, silently acquiesced.”
Metonymy
“Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smokestacks and antennae crown the cities!”
“The apartment was on the top floor—a small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath.”
Anaphora
“Where now? Who now? When now?”
“The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood on the little rise across the creek — now that, too, was gone …”
Epistrophe
“This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely…”
“Call up her father.
Rouse him. Make after him, Poison his delight,
Proclaim him in the streets. Incense her kinsmen,
And, though he in a fertile climate dwell…”
Asyndeton
“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.”
“And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had.”
Polysyndeton
“The Eyes around – had wrung them dry –
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset – when the King
Be witnessed – in the Room –”
“This is flesh I’m talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I’m telling you.”
Synecdoche
“Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves,
With wild thyme and the gadding vine o’ergrown,
And all their echoes mourn”
“What light from yonder window breaks?”
Syntax
“I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”
““It rained a bit more than usual.” – Describing an area being flooded by heavy rainfall.”
Understatement
“You can’t demonstrate that there aren’t Martians living in caves on the surface of Mars, so it is sensible for me to accept there are.”
“If you don’t vote for this applicant, you must be a Communist.”
“If we permit gay individuals to get married, what’s next? Permitting people to marry their dogs?”
Fallacy
