Grammar
Rhetorical Modes
Figurative Language
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Fallacies
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This is an example of what type of sentence? "Michelle speaks Spanish, and Jenny speaks Korean."
What is a "compound sentence?"
100
This rhetorical mode uses solid and appropriate illustrations to communicate clearly and with clarity.
What is "example?"
100
"America is a melting pot." is an example of this.
What is "metaphor?"
100
This is an example of what rhetorical device? “Oh, horror, horror, horror!” It is uninterrupted repetition, or repetition with only one or two words between each repeated phrase.
What is "EPIZEUXIS?" (Diacope)
100
A picture with three ducks in a row and then a squirrel would be an example of this.
What is a "non sequitur?"
200
"Tall, dark, and handsome" in the following sentence are examples of what? "My boyfriend is tall, dark, and handsome." They follow a linking verb and modify or describe the subject.
What are "predicate adjectives?"
200
This rhetorical mode divides up information into groups according to certain characteristics.
What is "classification?"
200
*What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young." George Bernard Shaw
What is "paradox?"
200
"A few fries short of a Happy Meal."
What is "euphemism?"
200
"The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe, but what will fishers do to support their families?"
What is "red herring?"
300
The following example is this type of sentence: "You will rescue the maiden or surrender your sword to the Round Table."
What is "imperative?"
300
This rhetorical mode is used by writers when they want to explain how to do something or how something was done.
What is "process analysis?"
300
"No one, rich or poor, will be excepted."
What is "pleonasm?"
300
This is an example of what rhetorical device? “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us." —Emerson It is a rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. (Contrast with anaphora.)
What is an "EPISTROPHE (also called EPIPHORA and sometimes ANTISTROPHE)?"
300
“He says that we should get more exercise but he could stand to lose a few pounds himself.”
What is "ad hominem."
400
The first word in the following sentence: "Stabbing is what I do best."
What is a "gerund?"
400
This rhetorical mode explains why things should be or should have been done. It explains the processes responsible for the process.
What is "cause and effect?"
400
"She’s said so on several million occasions."
What is "hyperbole?"
400
"Buyer's remorse," a feeling of guilt associated with doubts about the advisability of a purchase decision that one experiences after making an expensive purchase is an example of this. This is a state of psychological tension arising from incompatibility among a person's attitudes, behavior, beliefs, and/or knowledge, or when a choice has to be made between equally attractive or repulsive alternatives.
What is "cognitive consonance?"
400
“If one uses sound judgement, then it can occasionally be safe to exceed the speed limit. However, we must clamp down on speeding, because when people break the law it becomes a habit, and escalates out of control. The more one breaks the law, the less respect one has for it. If one day you break the speed limit, then the next you’ll go a little faster again, and pretty soon you’ll be driving recklessly, endangering the lives of other road-users. For this reason, we should take a zero-tolerance approach to speeding, and stop people before they reach dangerous levels.”
What is "slippery slope?"
500
The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
What is an "antecedent?"
500
This rhetorical mode helps to make expository or argumentative writing lively and interesting and hold the reader's interest. It is typically used to communicate a scene, a specific place, or a person to the reader.
What is "description?"
500
The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
What is a "assonance?"
500
"After the board votes to fire the popular principal, a well-timed letter to the editor or column in the school newsletter is written." The ancient Greeks gave special attention to timing--the "when" of the rhetorical situation. They called this the "right" moment to speak and the "right" way (or proportion) to speak.
What is "KAIROS?"
500
“Christianity teaches that as long as you say ‘Sorry’ afterwards, it doesn’t matter what you do. Even the worst moral crimes can be quickly and easily erased by simply uttering a word. This is absurd. Even if a sinner does apologise for what they’ve done, the effects of their sin are often here to stay. For example, if someone repents of infanticide, that doesn’t bring the infant back to life. Christians are clearly out of touch with reality.” This argument distorts Christianity in a couple of ways. First, it caricatures repentance as simply saying the word ‘Sorry’. Second, it implies that Christianity teaches that all of the negative effects of sin are erased when one confesses, which it doesn’t. Having distorted Christianity, the argument then correctly points out that the distortion is ludicrous, and quite reasonably rejects it as “out of touch with reality.” The argument, however, completely fails to engage with what the Church actually teaches, and so its conclusion has nothing to do with real Christianity.
What is "straw man?"
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