AnastropheTalkinglikeYodaAnaphoraStartingseveralsentenceswith the samebeginning.JuliusCaesarSaid,"Veni,Vidi,Vici!"MartinLutherKing, Jr.Said "Ihave adream!"PresidentLincolnSaid, "We cannotdedicate -- wecannotconsecrate --we cannot hallowthis ground."AntithesisPresentingoppositeson eitherside of asentence"I haveadream!"Catchphrase"I come to buryCaesar,not to praisehim."  Antithesis"We shall ...We shall ...We shall ...We shall ..."Anaphora"Agenius,you ain't!"Anastrophe"A Jediyouwill be!"Anastrophe"Pardon,Caesar!Caesar,pardon!"ChiasmusOxymoron"beautifulmistake""Life, liberty,and thepursuit ofhappiness"TricolonPresidentKennedySaid, "Ichbin einBerliner!""I want to makemy family,my neighbors,my town,and the wholestate proud!"ClimaxTricolon"TheRule ofThree"Euphemismsaying badthings in agentlerway"Hepassedaway."EuphemismHyperboleWe havedefined thisa milliontimes inclass!JohnLennonSaid, "Imagine nopossessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed orhungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the world"PathosMaking theaudienceget thefeelsLogosThe useofnumbersand logicEthosGetting theaudienceto trust thespeaker."We cannotdedicate-- we cannotconsecrate --we cannot hallowthis ground."IsocolonAnastropheTalkinglikeYodaAnaphoraStartingseveralsentenceswith the samebeginning.JuliusCaesarSaid,"Veni,Vidi,Vici!"MartinLutherKing, Jr.Said "Ihave adream!"PresidentLincolnSaid, "We cannotdedicate -- wecannotconsecrate --we cannot hallowthis ground."AntithesisPresentingoppositeson eitherside of asentence"I haveadream!"Catchphrase"I come to buryCaesar,not to praisehim."  Antithesis"We shall ...We shall ...We shall ...We shall ..."Anaphora"Agenius,you ain't!"Anastrophe"A Jediyouwill be!"Anastrophe"Pardon,Caesar!Caesar,pardon!"ChiasmusOxymoron"beautifulmistake""Life, liberty,and thepursuit ofhappiness"TricolonPresidentKennedySaid, "Ichbin einBerliner!""I want to makemy family,my neighbors,my town,and the wholestate proud!"ClimaxTricolon"TheRule ofThree"Euphemismsaying badthings in agentlerway"Hepassedaway."EuphemismHyperboleWe havedefined thisa milliontimes inclass!JohnLennonSaid, "Imagine nopossessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed orhungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the world"PathosMaking theaudienceget thefeelsLogosThe useofnumbersand logicEthosGetting theaudienceto trust thespeaker."We cannotdedicate-- we cannotconsecrate --we cannot hallowthis ground."Isocolon

Mr. S. Rhetoric Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. G-Talking like Yoda
    G-Anastrophe
  2. G-Starting several sentences with the same beginning.
    G-Anaphora
  3. I-Said, "Veni, Vidi, Vici!"
    I-Julius Caesar
  4. I-Said "I have a dream!"
    I-Martin Luther King, Jr.
  5. I-Said, "We cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow this ground."
    I-President Lincoln
  6. G-Presenting opposites on either side of a sentence
    G-Antithesis
  7. B-Catchphrase
    B-"I have a dream!"
  8. O-Antithesis
    O-"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
  9. O-Anaphora
    O-"We shall ... We shall ... We shall ... We shall ..."
  10. O-Anastrophe
    O-"A genius, you ain't!"
  11. B-Anastrophe
    B-"A Jedi you will be!"
  12. B-Chiasmus
    B-"Pardon, Caesar! Caesar, pardon!"
  13. N-"beautiful mistake"
    N-Oxymoron
  14. O-Tricolon
    O-"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
  15. I-Said, "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
    I-President Kennedy
  16. O-Climax
    O-"I want to make my family, my neighbors, my town, and the whole state proud!"
  17. G-"The Rule of Three"
    G-Tricolon
  18. G-saying bad things in a gentler way
    G-Euphemism
  19. B-Euphemism
    B-"He passed away."
  20. N-We have defined this a million times in class!
    N-Hyperbole
  21. I-Said, "Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world "
    I-John Lennon
  22. N-Making the audience get the feels
    N-Pathos
  23. N-The use of numbers and logic
    N-Logos
  24. N-Getting the audience to trust the speaker.
    N-Ethos
  25. B-Isocolon
    B- "We cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow this ground."