Lincoln at Gettysburg: "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow this ground." Which device shapes this sentence?

Kennedy, inaugural address of January 20, 1961: "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." Which device is at work here?

Frederick Douglass, in his 1845 Narrative: "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man." What device does this line turn on?

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776): "The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth." Which device does Paine use?

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776): "A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now." Which device is Paine using?

Macbeth: "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day." Which device shapes the line?

Hamlet: "To be, or not to be, that is the question." Which device is at work?

Kennedy, 1961: "Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce." Which device shapes this sentence?

Paine writes of Freedom in Common Sense: "Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her—Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart." Which device shapes it?

Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice: "Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?" Which device shapes the pair?

Patrick Henry, as recorded by William Wirt: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" Which device is Henry using?

Kennedy, 1961: "For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed." Which device shapes the sentence?

Kennedy on aid to poor nations, 1961: "not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right." Which device shapes the line?

Kennedy, 1961: "Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah ... to 'undo the heavy burdens ... let the oppressed go free.'" Which device is this?

Which passage uses antithesis?

Which passage uses anaphora?

A student is drafting a speech for the school board. Which sentence uses hyperbole?

Which sentence uses understatement?

Which sentence uses a rhetorical question?

Which passage uses parallelism?

A coach is writing the last lines of a locker-room speech. Which sentence uses repetition?

Which sentence uses allusion?

Lincoln closes at Gettysburg: "and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Which device shapes "of the people, by the people, for the people"?

King: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Which device shapes the "not ... but" phrase?

Antony, in Julius Caesar: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." Which device shapes "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"?

Paine, Common Sense: "'Tis not the affair of a city, a county, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent ..." Which device shapes "a city, a county, a province, or a kingdom"?

Kennedy pledges in 1961: "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." Which device shapes "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship"?

Antony, in Julius Caesar: "He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?" Which device is the closing sentence?

Dickens opens A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness." Which device shapes "the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"?

Henry V, before Agincourt: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother." Which device shapes "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"?

A candidate for student council says: "We can fix the schedule. We can fix the lunch line. We can fix the buses. We can do all three by March." What does opening four sentences the same way do to the audience?

A candidate for mayor says: "This city does not need a bigger budget; it needs a smaller excuse." What does setting the two halves against each other accomplish?

Shylock: "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" What do these questions do to the listener?

Paine, Common Sense: "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." What does a claim this large do to the reader?

Kennedy ends a passage of his 1961 inaugural by asking his listeners: "Will you join in that historic effort?" What does closing on a question rather than a command accomplish?

Kennedy, 1961: "Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us." What does pairing "unite" against "divide" accomplish?

A parent ends a speech about a canceled bus route: "So the district saved four dollars, and only three hundred students walk two miles in the dark." What does the word "only" accomplish here?

Antony opens the funeral speech: "The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar." What does opening this way do to the crowd?

A student writes in a lab report: "The measurement was wrong on Monday, wrong on Tuesday, and wrong again on Wednesday." What does repeating "wrong" accomplish?

A columnist writes: "The mayor's transit plan is his Trojan horse, and the council is wheeling it through the gate." What does the allusion do for the reader?