Rhetoric Master Gifts

'Oh, the irony! Just guess who gave me the welfare check I bought this sign with!'

'His best qualities are circumventing questions and evading answers.'

"National Metaphor Day by the looks of it."

"I think before we begin to address me, we need to talk about the clown in the room."

Information...political rhetoric

"I love a woman with a sense of humour."

"Remorse sits in my stomach like a piece of stale bread. How does that sound?"

'Life is like a trough, Mr. Fisk. How much slop you get out of it depends on how much slop you put into it.'

'I've discovered you have feet of clay.'

'Actually, I think my use of hyperbole is not only iconoclastic, it is potentially revolutionary.'

And now, for a rebuttal.

"...and to save you time, anything I say that comes back to haunt me, was something taken out of context."

'Oh man, he just nailed that triple entendre... that all but guarantees him a medal.'

"Smart stuff, Chip, but wise up and dumb it down."

Professor Dubreuil is blow away by the dynamic vitality of Dean Richmond's rhetoric.

Some moss pounces on a rolling stone.

Life Remaining Progress Bar

Language of politics.

"Permission to speak in rhyming couplets, sir!"

Vote For Me: The winning over of voters.

Lawyers - A peroration a la Demosthenes

'Wow! Can't you just feel the safe-ness!'

"Is this speech pie-in-the-sky nonsense or aspirational?"

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender. . ."

'I'm just not keen.'

"I'd like to start by saying that anything I say that will come back to haunt me will be something taken out of context."

"Poetry would be way more accessible if they just said what they meant."

Violent Rhetoric

'Hopkins, I want you to write me an inspiring, dynamic speech that bears my unmistakable stamp of genius.'

'Darlin', what's an adjective for a two-timin', heart-breakin' outlaw that rhymes with iPod?'

"Look, I got a good grade because I worked hard. It's like riding a bike...stay in your seat, keep moving forward and you'll reach your goal. Unless you hit a lipstick case dropped in the middle of the road."