An essay entitled,"How to Write a Curriculum Vitae" probably utilizes this rhetorical strategy.
What is Process Analysis?
100
1.Wilbert Newton is the perfect example of a statesman.
2.Wilbert Newton is the perfect example of a politician.
These sentences exemplify the importance of the __________ of a particular word.
What is CONNOTATION?
100
Thomas Jefferson called John Adams a ""a blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who is a hideous hermaphroditic character with neither the force and fitness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."
What is an AD HOMINEM argument?
100
"Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard."
This line contains...
What is ONOMATOPOEIA and ALLITERATION?
100
"Intramural hockey is strenuous, stimulating, and satisfying sport." This is an example of...
What is alliteration?
200
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Thoreau's statement is an example of this mode of discourse:
What is ARGUMENT?
200
"True!--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say I am mad?"
Edgar Alan Poe writes this story from a ____________ to make the narrator seem more unreliable and volatile.
What is FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW.
200
"America: Love it or leave it."
You've probably seen this bumper sticker. It is a good example of this fallacy:
What is FALSE DILEMMA or EITHER/OR fallacy?
200
"There are millions of people waiting to get through the door."
This line contains...
What is HYPERBOLE?
200
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country," exemplifies this...
What is antimetabole?
300
"I myself was having a terrible time reading the paper, so yesterday morning I went to Birmingham to get my eyes checked, and lo and behold, I had on Wilbur's glasses and he had on mine. We are getting different colored ones next time." The mode of discourse is...
What is NARRATION?
300
"I'd say let's ankle to the joint, but I got a gimp. Other than that, everything's jake."
The 1920's slang in this sentence exemplifies the use of informal _______ in writing.
What is DICTION?
300
The DirectTV ads such as the one that ends with "Don't attend your own funeral as a guy named 'Phil Shiffley,'" are great examples of this type of fallacy.
What is a SLIPPERY SLOPE fallacy?
300
"He employs over one hundred hands on his ranch in Wyoming."
This line contains...
What is METONYMY?
300
"I skated, I shot, I scored, I cheered---What a glorious moment of sport!"
What is asyndeton?
400
"Gertrude Stein liked to say that America entered the twentieth century ahead of the rest of the world."
The mode of discourse is...
What is EXPOSITION?
400
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
J.R.R. Tolkien plays with _______ in this sentence to make it more effective.
What is SYNTAX?
400
Miss Payán hardly ever washes her car because she believes that when she does, it will rain.
Miss Payán is guilty of committing this logical fallacy.
What is POST HOC [ERGO PROPTER HOC] or False Cause fallacy.
400
"Ralph, if you're gonna be a phony, you might as well be a real phony."
This line contains...
What is OXYMORON?
400
"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
What is antithesis?
500
"Partially covering his shaggy blond hair was one of those baseball caps with gold braids on the bill and a sailfish patch sewn onto the peak." The sentence exemplifies this mode of discourse.
What is DESCRIPTION?
500
"The fog comes in on little cat feet."
The tone of this line is...
What is PLAYFUL or POSITIVE?
500
- Robin: I guess you can never trust a woman.
Batman: You've made a _______________, Robin. It's a bad habit to get into.
(Batman television series, 1966)
What is a HASTY GENERALIZATION?
500
"Frankly, my dear, I don't feel like going out."
This line contains...