The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses.
What is anaphora?
100
The three rhetorical appeals.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
100
An example is: "Whose woods these are I think I know."
What is an inverted sentence?
100
When a writer implies that because one thing follows another, the first caused the second.
What is the post hoc fallacy?
100
Citations are included in sources on the synthesis questions so that you can determine this.
What is reliability (time period/authorial bias)?
200
Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words: X, Y, Z.
What is asyndeton?
200
The three points of the rhetorical triangle.
What are speaker, audience, content?
200
An example is: "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her appearance."
What is understatement?
200
The fallacy of raising an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue.
What is a red herring?
200
Number of sources you must use to fulfill source requirement.
What is three?
300
An example is: “Across the stream, beyond the clearing, from behind a fallen tree, the lion emerged.”
What is a periodic sentence?
300
Dictated by the speaker's relationship with the audience; created by diction and syntax.
What is tone?
300
An example is: "Success is counted sweetest/ By those who ne'er succeed."
What is a paradox?
300
A personal attack on the character or other traits of one's opponent rather than an argument against his/her ideas.
What is an ad hominem attack?
300
The easiest way to ensure you are "synthesizing" sources.
What is "making them talk to each other?"
400
An example is: "thundering silence"
What is an oxymoron?
400
The word SKINNY has a different ___________ than the word SLENDER.
What is connotation?
400
An example of this type of sentence is: "Jesus wept."
What is a telegraphic sentence?
400
A form of reasoning which works from a body of fact to the formulation of a generalization.
What is inductive reasoning?
400
An essay in which you develop a position regarding what the sources say as a whole about a topic, not a position about which side a reader should believe.
What is the explanatory synthesis?
500
An example is:
"Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep
To undertake the death of all the world,
So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom."
What is hyperbole?
500
The most important question one should ask oneself when responding to a rhetorical analysis passage.
What is the purpose of the passage?
500
An example of this is seen in the following sentence: "In the ghetto everybody gets a piece of the action: those who are Jews and those who are Christians; those who are white and those who are black; those who run the numbers and those who operate the churches; those – black and white – who own tenements and those – black and white – who own businesses."
What is parallelism?
500
The most effective form of argument for negotiation.
What is the Rogerian Argument?
500
You cannot receive higher than a 4 on your synthesis essay--no matter what--if you fail to do this.