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Lesson 1
Pub Talk and the
King
’
s English
1.
The
conversation had swung from Australian convicts of
the 19th century to the
English
peasants
of
the
12th
century.
Who
was
right,
who
was
wrong,
did
not
matter. The conversation
was on
wings.
—
metaphor
2.
As we listen
today to the arguments about bilingual education,
we ought to think
ourselves back into
the shoes of the Saxon peasant.
—
metaphor
3.
I have an
unending love affair with dictionaries-Auden once
said that all a writer
needs
is
a
pen,
plenty
of
paper
and
best
dictionaries
he
can
afford
I
agree with the person who said that
dictionaries are instruments of common
sense.
—
metaphor
4.
Even with
the most educated and the most
literate, the King's English slips and
slides in
conversation.
—
alliteration
5.
Other people
may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the
great minds are
supposed
to
have
indulged
in
the
great
salons
of
18th
century
Paris,
but
one
suspects
that the great minds were gossiping and judging
the quality of the food
and the wine.
—
synecdoche
6.
Otherwise
one
will
tie
up
the
conversation
and
will
not
let
it
go
on
freely.
—
metaphor
Lesson 3
Inaugural Address
1
Let the word go
forth from this time and
place, to
friend and foe
alike, that the
torch
has
been
passed
to
a
new
generation
of
Americans,
born
in
this
century,
tempered
by
war,
disciplined
by
a
hard
and
bitter
peace,
proud
of
our
ancient
heritage,
and
unwilling
to
witness
or
permit
the
slow
undoing
of
these
human
rights
to
which
this
nation
has
always
been
committed,
and
to
which
we
are
committed today at home and around the
world
.
—
alliterati
on
2
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
1
the survival and the success of liberty
—
parallelism
3
United,
there
is
little
we
cannot
do
in
a
host
of
co-operative
ventures.
Divided,
there is little we can do, for we dare
not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
split asunder.
—
an
tithesis
4
…
in
the
past,
those
who
foolishly
sought
power
by
riding
the
back
of
the
tiger
ended
up inside.
—
metaphor
5
If
a
free
society
cannot
help
the
many
who
are
poor,
it
cannot
save
the
few
who
are
rich.
—
antithesis
Lesson 4
Love Is
a Fallacy
1
Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising
a fellow as you will meet in a month of
Sundays,
unfettered
the
informal
essay
with
his
memorable
Old
China
and
Dream
’
s
Children.
—
metaphor
2
Read,
then,
the
following
essay
which
undertakes
to
demonstrate
that logic,
far
from being a dry, pedantic discipline,
is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty,
passion, and
trauma.
—
metaphor,
hyperbole
3
She was, to be sure, a girl who excited
the emotions but I was not one to let my
heart rule my head.
—
metonymy
4
Back and forth
his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution
waning.
—
antithesis
5
It
is
not
often
that
one
so
young
has
such
a
giant
intellect.
Take,
for
example,
Petey
Butch,
my
roommate
at
the
University
of
Minnesota.
Same
age,
same
background, but dumb as an ox.
—
hyperbole,
simile
6
One more chance, I decided. But just
one more. There is a limit to what flesh and
blood can bear.
—
synecdoche
7
Maybe somewhere
in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers
still smoldered.
Maybe somehow I could
fan them into
flame.
—
metaphor, extended
metaphor
8
left.
—
transferred
epithet
2
Lesson 5
The Sad Young Men
1
The
slightest
mention
of
the
decade
brings
nostalgic
recollections
to
the
middle-aged and curious
questionings by the young: memories of the
deliciously
illicit thrill of the first
visit to a speakeasy, of the brave denunciation of
Puritan
morality, and of the
fashionable experimentations in amour in the
parked sedan on
a country road;
questions about the naughty, jazzy parties, the
flask-toting
‖
sheik
‖
,
and
the
moral
and
stylistic
vagaries
of
the
―
flapper
‖
and
the
―
drug-store <
/p>
cowboy
‖
.
—
transferred epithet
2
War or no war,
as the generations passed, it became increasingly
difficult for our
young
people
to
accept
standards
of
behavior
that
bore
no
relationship
to
the
bustling
business
medium
in
which
they
were
expected
to
battle
for
success.
—
metaphor
3
The
prolonged
stalemate
of
1915-1916,
the
increasing
insolence
of
Germany
toward
the
United
States,
and
our
official
reluctance
to
declare
our
status
as
a
belligerent
were
intolerable
to
many
of
our
idealistic
citizens,
and
with
typical
American
adventurousness
enhanced
somewhat
by
the
strenuous
jingoism
of
Theodore
Roosevelt,
our
young
men
began
to
enlist
under
foreign
flags.
—
metonymy
4
Before long the
movement had become officially recognized by the
pulpit (which
denounced it), by the
movies and magazines (which made it attractively
naughty
while pretending to denounce
it), and by advertising (which obliquely
encouraged
it by 'selling everything
from cigarettes to automobiles with the implied
promise
that their owners would be
rendered sexually irresistible)
.
—
metonymy
5
Younger
brothers
and
sisters
of
the
war
generation,
who
had
been
playing
with
marbles
and
dolls
during
the
battles
of
Belleau
Wood
and
Chateau-Thierry,
and
who had suffered no real
disillusionment or sense of
loss, now
began to
imitate
the manners
of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar r
ebellion.
—
metaphor
6
These defects
would disappear if only creative art were allowed
to show the way
to better things, but
since the country was blind and deaf to everything
save the
glint and ring of the dollar,
there was little remedy for the sensitive mind but
to
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