AnaphoraStartingseveralsentenceswith the samebeginning.HyperboleWe havedefined thisa milliontimes inclass!"I haveadream!"CatchphraseAntithesisPresentingoppositeson eitherside of asentence"Agenius,you ain't!"Anastrophe"Hepassedaway."EuphemismPresidentKennedySaid, "Ichbin einBerliner!"EthosGetting theaudienceto trust thespeaker.PathosMaking theaudienceget thefeelsJuliusCaesarSaid,"Veni,Vidi,Vici!"Tricolon"TheRule ofThree"LogosThe useofnumbersand logic"I come to buryCaesar,not to praisehim."  Antithesis"Life, liberty,and thepursuit ofhappiness"Tricolon"We cannotdedicate-- we cannotconsecrate --we cannot hallowthis ground."IsocolonPresidentLincolnSaid, "We cannotdedicate -- wecannotconsecrate --we cannot hallowthis ground.""A Jediyouwill be!"Anastrophe"Pardon,Caesar!Caesar,pardon!"Chiasmus"I want to makemy family,my neighbors,my town,and the wholestate proud!"ClimaxMartinLutherKing, Jr.Said "Ihave adream!"Oxymoron"beautifulmistake"JohnLennonSaid, "Imagine nopossessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed orhungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the world"AnastropheTalkinglikeYodaEuphemismsaying badthings in agentlerway"We shall ...We shall ...We shall ...We shall ..."AnaphoraAnaphoraStartingseveralsentenceswith the samebeginning.HyperboleWe havedefined thisa milliontimes inclass!"I haveadream!"CatchphraseAntithesisPresentingoppositeson eitherside of asentence"Agenius,you ain't!"Anastrophe"Hepassedaway."EuphemismPresidentKennedySaid, "Ichbin einBerliner!"EthosGetting theaudienceto trust thespeaker.PathosMaking theaudienceget thefeelsJuliusCaesarSaid,"Veni,Vidi,Vici!"Tricolon"TheRule ofThree"LogosThe useofnumbersand logic"I come to buryCaesar,not to praisehim."  Antithesis"Life, liberty,and thepursuit ofhappiness"Tricolon"We cannotdedicate-- we cannotconsecrate --we cannot hallowthis ground."IsocolonPresidentLincolnSaid, "We cannotdedicate -- wecannotconsecrate --we cannot hallowthis ground.""A Jediyouwill be!"Anastrophe"Pardon,Caesar!Caesar,pardon!"Chiasmus"I want to makemy family,my neighbors,my town,and the wholestate proud!"ClimaxMartinLutherKing, Jr.Said "Ihave adream!"Oxymoron"beautifulmistake"JohnLennonSaid, "Imagine nopossessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed orhungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the world"AnastropheTalkinglikeYodaEuphemismsaying badthings in agentlerway"We shall ...We shall ...We shall ...We shall ..."Anaphora

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-Starting several sentences with the same beginning.
    G-Anaphora
  2. N-We have defined this a million times in class!
    N-Hyperbole
  3. B-Catchphrase
    B-"I have a dream!"
  4. G-Presenting opposites on either side of a sentence
    G-Antithesis
  5. O-Anastrophe
    O-"A genius, you ain't!"
  6. B-Euphemism
    B-"He passed away."
  7. I-Said, "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
    I-President Kennedy
  8. N-Getting the audience to trust the speaker.
    N-Ethos
  9. N-Making the audience get the feels
    N-Pathos
  10. I-Said, "Veni, Vidi, Vici!"
    I-Julius Caesar
  11. G-"The Rule of Three"
    G-Tricolon
  12. N-The use of numbers and logic
    N-Logos
  13. O-Antithesis
    O-"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
  14. O-Tricolon
    O-"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
  15. B-Isocolon
    B- "We cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow this ground."
  16. I-Said, "We cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow this ground."
    I-President Lincoln
  17. B-Anastrophe
    B-"A Jedi you will be!"
  18. B-Chiasmus
    B-"Pardon, Caesar! Caesar, pardon!"
  19. O-Climax
    O-"I want to make my family, my neighbors, my town, and the whole state proud!"
  20. I-Said "I have a dream!"
    I-Martin Luther King, Jr.
  21. N-"beautiful mistake"
    N-Oxymoron
  22. 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
  23. G-Talking like Yoda
    G-Anastrophe
  24. G-saying bad things in a gentler way
    G-Euphemism
  25. O-Anaphora
    O-"We shall ... We shall ... We shall ... We shall ..."