Which rhetorical device uses exaggeration?
Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales.In Flanders there was once a companyOf youngsters wedded to such sin and follyAs gaming, dicing, brothels, and taverns,Where, night and day, with harps, lutes, and citherns,They spend their time in dicing and in dancing,Eating and drinking more than they can carry;And with these abominable excessesThey offer up the vilest sacrifices . . .
Read the excerpt from Alexander the Great’s speech at Opis.Philip gave you cloaks to wear instead of skins, he brought you down from the mountains into the plains, he turned you into a fighting force ready to match your barbarian neighbours, with a security now based on trust in your own native courage rather than the strength of defensive positions: he made you city-dwellers and gave you the benefits of law and a civilized way of life.
Read the sentence.Algebra is a precursor for calculus because it will help students to be successful in the latter course.Which word is closest in meaning to the underlined word?
Read the introduction to Darryl’s composition.Since the budget for the groundbreaking elephant-behavior-studies program has been cut—just as it was beginning to make progress—wildlife conservationists and their supporters are asking that people from all over the world promote the program by encouraging local agencies and community members to donate time and funds to secure the future of the amazingly gentle and intelligent African elephant species. Darryl is most likely writing with the purpose of
Read the quotation from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow’s arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal. It was a lake of rainbow light, in which, for a short while, I lived like a dolphin. If it had lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and life.Which is the best example of a vivid sensory detail?
Read the excerpt from Pericles’s funeral oration by Thucydides.We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
Read the passage from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography.I could not name any principle upon which the books have been gathered. Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls "the mad pride of intellectuality," taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.Using the context clues, what is the meaning of the word "principle" as used in the sentence?
Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to the Canterbury Tales.In church he made a splendid ecclesiastic.He’d read a lesson, or saint’s history,But best of all he sang the offertory:For, knowing well that when that hymn was sung,He’d have to preach and polish smooth his tongueTo raise—as only he knew how—the wind,The louder and the merrier he would sing.
Read the sentence.There were a finite number of tickets to the game, as the stadium could only hold 20,000 people.Which word is closest in meaning to the underlined word?
Read the passage from A New Astronomy, by David Todd.From Polaris a line of small stars curves toward the handle of the Dipper, meeting the upper one of a pair of the third magnitude. This pair, with another farther on and parallel to it, form the 'Little Dipper,' Polaris being the end of its handle. The group is Ursa Minor. Opposite the handle of the great Dipper, and at about the same distance from Polaris, are five rather bright stars forming a flattened letter W. They are the principal stars of Cassiopeia.What strategy does the author use in his choice of language to convey his message?
Read the excerpt from Pericles’s funeral oration by Thucydides.Here is a proof of this: When the Spartans invade our land, they do not come by themselves, but bring all their allies with them; whereas we, when we launch an attack abroad, do the job by ourselves, and, though fighting on foreign soil, do not often fail to defeat opponents who are fighting for their own hearths and homes. As a matter of fact none of our enemies has ever yet been confronted with our total strength, because we have to divide our attention between our navy and the many missions on which our troops are sent on land.
Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to the Canterbury Tales.There was a knight, a reputable man,Who from the moment that he first began Campaigning, had cherished the professionOf arms; he also prized trustworthiness,Liberality, fame, and courteousness.In the king’s service he’d fought valiantly,And travelled far; no man as far as heIn Christian and in heathen lands as well,And ever honoured for his ability.Read the same excerpt from the Middle English version of the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.A Knight ther was, and that a worthy man,That fro the tyme that he first biganTo ryden out, he loved chivalrye,Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre,And therto hadde he riden (no man ferre)As wel in Cristendom as hethenesse,And ever honoured for his worthinesse.
Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales.Thus I know how to preach against the vice Which masters me—and that is avarice.Though I myself am guilty of the sin,I know how to make other people turnFrom avarice, and bitterly repent.
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