Rhetorical Terms

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Across
  1. 3. "That little Caesar is fooling nobody. He knows he is no Patrick Henry."
  2. 4. "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" -Joseph Welch to Senator Joseph McCarthy, June 9, 1954
  3. 5. "He has Van Gogh’s ear for music." -Billy Wilder
  4. 9. "Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to." -George Orwell
  5. 10. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  6. 11. hi, yes, no
  7. 13. "I will have such revenges on you both,/That all the world shall--I will do such things,/What they are, yet I know not." -William Shakespeare, King Lear
  8. 14. We heard it with our own ears.
  9. 16. "While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." -John 9:5
  10. 17. "If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit." -Attorney Johnny Cochran in the O.J. Simpson trial
  11. 18. "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills." -Winston Churchill
Down
  1. 1. Referring to the Atlantic Ocean as "the pond"
  2. 2. "Object there was none. Passion there was none." -Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
  3. 4. "My dear Maximilien, ...the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. Your friend, Edmond Dantes" -Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
  4. 6. attributing lightning to God's wrath
  5. 7. Speaking of furniture we mean articles such as tables, chairs, wardrobes, desks etc.
  6. 8. "NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance." -Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  7. 11. "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; /we are perplexed, but not in despair;/Persecuted, but not forsaken;/cast down, but not destroyed." —2 Corinthians 4:8-9
  8. 12. "I will speak daggers to her." -William Shakespeare, Hamlet
  9. 15. “And how’d you get that [becoming King], eh? By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.” — Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail