Rhetorical Devices

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Across
  1. 3. – "If youth knew; if age could." – Sigmund Freud (understood to mean "If youth knew how; if age could do so.")
  2. 5. – "All hands on deck." (where "hands" refers to the sailors)
  3. 7. – "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right..." – Abraham Lincoln
  4. 9. – "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." – Martin Luther King Jr.
  5. 10. – "It’s déjà vu all over again." – Yogi Berra
  6. 12. – "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." – Neil Armstrong
  7. 15. – "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." – Franklin D. Roosevelt (alluding to fear as a broader concept, without direct explanation)
  8. 17. – "The strong heart and the brave mind." (ABAB word order; pairing adjectives with corresponding nouns)
  9. 18. – "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." – Mario Puzo, The Godfather (although it’s known more for tone, the phrase evokes sound through the implicit whisper of a dangerous deal.)
  10. 19. – "Let us go forth to lead the land we love." – John F. Kennedy
  11. 20. – "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there..." – William Butler Yeats (although an Irish poet, the structure appears in American poetry often)
  12. 22. – "We have ships and men and money and stores." – Julius Caesar (though originally from ancient rhetoric, this appears in modern speeches often)
Down
  1. 1. – "Not as a call to battle, though embattled we are..." – John F. Kennedy
  2. 2. – "I'm going to knock that ball out of the park." (anticipating the result of hitting the ball)
  3. 4. – "She broke his car and his heart." – Anonymous
  4. 6. – "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country." – John F. Kennedy
  5. 8. – "I can resist anything except temptation." – Mark Twain
  6. 11. – "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low..." – Martin Luther King Jr.
  7. 13. – "I've told you a million times not to exaggerate." – Anonymous
  8. 14. – "The White House issued a statement today." ("White House" stands for the president or the executive branch)
  9. 16. – "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get." – Forrest Gump
  10. 21. – "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe..." – John F. Kennedy