Rhetorical Strategies
What is the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas related in importance?
Parallelism
The value or importance of a word is called..?
Emphasis
Simplifying or misrepresenting someone's argument, making it easier to discredit them
Straw Man
This technique in nonfiction essay writing uses sensory details to create a vivid image for the reader.
Descriptive Writing
When having trouble answering a question, this strategy can help narrow down the possible options
Process of Elimination
What persuasive strategy triggers the reader's emotions?
Pathos
This technique uses stats or data to appeal to logical reasoning
Logos
This logical fallacy is closely related to what is known as the “Butterfly Effect”.
Slippery Slope
The first sentence of each body paragraph that sums up the points made in said paragraph
Topic Sentence
This type of Question asks for a specific details or information, such as dates, definitions, or straightforward facts.
Factual Question
What is the rhetorical term when you say something that has 2 meaning
Connotation
This rhetorical device, often used to emphasize an emotion or idea.
An example of this logical fallacy could be, “I have met 3 bikers and they were all mean, so all bikers are mean!”
Hasty Generalization
This is what immediately follows a piece of evidence, and furthers establishing credentials of said evidence.
Quote Citations
If the use of background knowledge is used in a multiple choice question, it uses what type of question stem?
Inference Question
Q2: “Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.” This, along with the rest of Truman Capote’s novel, is the tone of In Cold Blood.
Dark
This usually consists of a question that should not typically be answered.
Rhetorical question
A fallacy which, in Latin, it translates literally to ‘to the person.’
Ad Hominen Fallacy
Which kind of thesis statement focuses on making a claim that the reader can disagree with.
Argumentative
The portion of a multiple-choice question that poses a problem.
Stem
The repeated use of conjunctions (instead of commas) to connect different items in a sentence such as, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
Polysyndeton
This English concept involves a structured argument composed of two premises and a conclusion, all rooted in logical reasoning.
Syllogism
In Ronald Reagan ́s speech ̈Address to the Nation on the Campaign Against Drug Abuse ̈ he expresses that there are only two options. One to help stop the war on drugs or two to be equally impacted by the drug epidemic. What type of argumentative technique does he use?
False dichotomy
The two types of thesis layouts
Holistic and Specific Devices thesis formats
An answer that although plausible, is not the best answer/incorrect.
Lead Distractor