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What is Diction
What rhetorical device is in this quote? "the strength, courage, ingenuity, and desperation of neither boxer have been adequately measured"
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What is Simile
What literary device is in this quote? "two men, near- naked, fight each other in a brightly lit, elevated space roped in like an animal pen"
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What is Negative
Is the tone in this quote positive or negative? "Boxing today is very different form the king of the past, so savagely and senselessly struck in the head with countless unanswered blows that he died in a coma 10 days later"
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What is Logos
Is this Ethos, Pathos, or Logos? "Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 17, 1942, grandson of a slave, began boxing at the age of twelve"
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What is Imagery
What rhetorical device is in this quote? "instead of going to a neutral corner, Ali stood over his fallen opponent with his fist cocked, screaming"
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What is Simile
What literary device is in this quote? "he floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee"
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What is Depressing or synonyms of it
What word best describes the tone that is shown? "These hard won victories began irreversible loss: progressive deterioration of Ali's kidneys, hands, reflexes, and stamina. Ali was advised to retire."
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What is Ethos
Is this Ethos, Pathos, or Logos? "Even in the gritty world of the underclass, who, today, would choose to fight with mere fists?"
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What is Diction
What rhetorical device is in this quote? "Professional boxing is the only major American sport whose primary, and often murderous, energies"
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What is Personification
What literary device is in this quote? "the play of lightning- swift reflexes"
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What is Disapproving or synonyms of it
What word best describes the tone that is shown? "Why he will devote himself to the rigors of training in a sport in which, literally, one's entire career can end within few seconds"
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What is Logos
Is this Ethos, Pathos, or Logos? "He repudiated his “slave name” of Cassius Marcellus Clay to become Muhammad Ali (a name which, incidentally, The New York Times, among other censorious white publications, would not honor through the 1960s).
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What is Imagery
What rhetorical device is in this quote? "Boxing today is very different from the boxing of the past, which allowed a man to be struck repeatedly while trying to get to his feet (Dempsey–Willard, 1919), or to be knocked down seven times in three wholly one- sided rounds (Patterson–Johansson I, 1959),"
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What is Appositive phrase
What literary device is in this quote? "Two years later, refusing to be inducted into the army to fight in Vietnam, Ali, beleaguered by reporters,..."
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What is Demeaning or synonym of it
What word best describes the tone that is shown? "boxing has long been America’s most popularly despised sport: a “so- called” sport, even a “meta- ” or an “anti- ” sport: a “vicious exploitation of maleness” as prostitution and pornography may be said to be a vicious exploitation of femaleness."
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What is Logos
Is this Ethos, Pathos, or Logos? “I’ve had twenty-eight fights and twenty-eight wins. I ain’t never been stopped”
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What is Imagery
What rhetorical device is in this quote? "two men, near- naked, fight each other in a brightly lit, elevated space roped in like an animal pen"
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What is an Analogy
What literary device is in this quote? "Is there a moral distinction between the spectacle of black slaves in the old south being forced by temporary blacks fighting for multi-million dollar paydays, for TV coverage from Las Vegas and Atlantic city?"
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What is Violent or synonyms of it
What word best describes the tone that is shown? "it is the most spectacularly and pointedly cruel sport, its intention being to stun one’s opponent’s brain"
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What is Pathos
Is this Ethos, Pathos, or Logos? "Guns abound, death to one’s opponents at a safe distance is possible even for children."
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