What is Multiple Choice, Argument Essay, Synthesis Essay, and Analysis Essay?
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The emotional impact of words
What is connotation?
100
Descriptive adjective + noun
What is an epithet?
100
Name the three rhetorical strategies that "exaggerate"
What is
1. Hyperbole
2. Understatement
3. Litotes
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The seven parts of the rhetorical situation.
What is exigence, author, audience, text, medium, genre and purpose?
200
Worth 55% of the total AP exam.
What is the essay portion?
200
a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant
What is euphemism?
200
“He was tall, and dark, and handsome.”
What is Polysyndeton?
200
Name the three rhetorical strategies that are "questioners"
What is
1. rhetorical question
2. Hypohphora
3. Procatalepsis
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Introduction, Narration, Confirmation, Refutation, and Conclusion
What is Toulmin's Classical Model of Argument?
300
Name 3 multiple choice test taking strategies.
What is
1. Answer everything (no points deducted for wrong answers)
2. Read questions first
3. Simplify and reword questions/answers
4. Annotate the passages
5. Answer easiest questions first
6. Eliminate answers that are wrong or illogical.
300
Combination of an independent and dependent clause.
What is Complex sentence>
300
when a part of something represents the whole.
ex. “All hands on deck!”
What is synedoche?
300
Name three rhetorical devices that "compare and contrast"
What is
1. antithesis
2. metaphor
3. simile
4. analogy
5. allusion
6. eponym
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Name 4 types of evidence
What is
1. statistical
2. testimonial
3. anecdotal
4. analogical
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Name 5 strategies for writing the synthesis essay
What is
1. Analyze the prompt
2. Formulate a position
3. Evaluate the sources
4. Choose sources for your argument
5. Write a thesis statement.
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A sentence made up of two parts that are roughly equal in length, importance, and grammatical structure: a paired construction.
"Sleeping on a Seely is like sleeping on a cloud.“
What is a balanced sentence?
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ordering points to downplay the negative points so that the reader feels less strongly about them.
What is Antanagoge?
400
Some might say that war is inevitable, but it is not.
What is procatalepsis?
500
Name 4 organization strategies for an argument
What is
1. Example
2. Compare/Contrast
3. Cause/ Effect
4. Classification
5. Definition
6. Process
7. Narration
8. Description
500
Name 4 things you could analyze about a passage in a the Analysis Essay
What is
1. Tone
2. Mood
3. Diction
4. Syntax
5. Organization
6. Evidence
7. Imagery
8. Rhetorical Situation
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Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
What is parallelism?
500
Take the last word of a sentence or phrase and repeats it near the beginning of the next sentence or phrase.
Ex. In education we find the measure of our own ignorance; in ignorance we find the beginning of wisdom.
What is Anadiplosis?
500
Rearrange words in your sentence in an unexpected order. (a syntax inversion)