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SCHEMES EXAMPLES/EXERCISE
Identify and label each example by the name of the scheme it represents.
1. ". . . love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove . . ."
(Shakespeare, Sonnet 116)
2. "To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
(A. Bronson Alcott, "Conversations." Table-Talk, 1877)
3. "You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
(Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 2006)
4. "In the end, the true test is not the speeches a president delivers; it’s whether the president delivers on
the speeches." (Hillary Clinton, March 2008)
5. "Stops static before static stops you."
(Advertising slogan of Bounce fabric softener sheet, 1990s)
6. "Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly
and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
7. "There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never
be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can
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never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the
motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic
mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are
stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating 'For Whites Only.' We cannot be
satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing
for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like
waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
(Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream." August 28, 1963)
8. "When we send our young men and women into harm’s way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge
the numbers or shade the truth about why they’re going, to care for their families while they’re gone, to
tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war,
secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world."
(Barack Obama, "The Audacity of Hope," 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address)
9. "At six o'clock we were waiting for coffee,
waiting for coffee and the charitable crumb . . ."
(Elizabeth Bishop, "A Miracle for Breakfast")
10. "When I give I give myself." (Walt Whitman)
11. "Say over again, and yet once over again,
That thou dost love me . . .."
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese)
12. "The man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink; the man who was sleeping drinks
it while listening to a proposition from the man who did the waking."
(Jack Sparrow, The Pirates of the Caribbean)
13. "For no government is better than the men who compose it, and I want the best, and we need the best,
and we deserve the best." (Senator John F. Kennedy, speech at Wittenberg College, Oct. 17, 1960)
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14. "And close your eyes, child, and listen to what I'll tell you.
Follow in the darkest night the sounds that may impel you.
And the song that I am singing may disturb or serve to quell you."
(Jerry Merrick, "Follow," as sung by Richie Havens on the album Mixed Bag, 1967)
15. "I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I
don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off."
(Policeman in The Big Lebowski, 1998)
16. "It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the
place." (Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, 1951)
17. "Those images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea."
(W.B. Yeats, "Byzantium")
18. "Flash with a rash gimme my cash flickin' my ash
Runnin with my money, son, go out with a blast."
(Busta Rhymes, "Gimme Some More," 1998)
19. "A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow."
(Vladimir Nabokov, Conclusive Evidence, 1951)
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20. "The efficient Baxter bicycled broodingly to Market Blandings for tobacco."
(P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh, 1915)
21. "I don't care a fig for his sense of justice--I don't care a fig for the wretchedness of London; and if I were
young, and beautiful, and clever, and brilliant, and of a noble position, like you, I should care still less."
(Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, 1886)
22. "Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war--not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of
it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government--not any other thing. We are the killers."
(Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter, 1968)
23. "Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up,
Down, In, Out, Why, How, Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom!"
(Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953)
24. "She was young, she was pure, she was new, she was nice,
She was fair, she was sweet seventeen.
He was old, he was vile, and no stranger to vice,
He was base, he was bad, he was mean.
He had slyly inveigled her up to his flat
To view his collection of stamps."
(Flanders and Swann, "Have Some Madeira, M'Dear")
25. Mr. Smith, a well-respected lawyer, has just retired from active practice.
26. Professor James, an expert in Victorian poetry, will be giving a lecture tonight.
27. "This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and
grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally,
with a transcendent effort, of ash-grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the
powdery air."
(F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925)
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28. "Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror."
(P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves, 1934)
29. He came at night, at precisely 10:25, to ask for you.
30. Dogs have (like every other predator) the killer instinct.
31. "Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel
will I keep on who is to be trained. . . . This one a long time have I watched. . . . Never his mind on
where he was."
(Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V--The Empire Strikes Back, 1980)
32. "Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."
(Winston Churchill, address delivered at the Guildhall, London, Sep. 14, 1914)
33. "action, not words"
34. "One small step for a man, one giant leap for all mankind."
35. “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
36. “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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37. She loves eating chocolate eclairs, taking moonlit walks, and singing classic jazz.
38. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interest, and teach us
what it means to be citizens.
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