Fallacy
Rhetoric
Writing Ideas
Vocabulary
Grammar
100
This is an example of this type of fallacy: "No one can prove that the Loch Ness monster does not exist; therefore the Loch Ness monster exists.
What is appeal to ignorance?
100
This is an example of this type of rhetoric: "Let us go forth and lead the land we love." JFK and "Veni, Vidi, Vici." Julius Caesar.
What is alliteration?
100
This is the main idea of the text and in an essay it should be the last sentence of the introduction.
What is the thesis?
100
This is lacking application or pratical apllication.
What is theoretical?
100
This is a type of sentence in which the main idea comes fromt he first sentence followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. The meaning of the sentence is in the first part.
What is a loose sentence?
200
This circular form of reason is an example of this type of fallacy: Interviewer: Your resume looks impressive, but I need another reference. George: Heidi can give me a good reference. Interviewer: Good, but how do I know that Heidi is trustworthy? George: I can vouch for her.
What is begging the question?
200
This is an example of this type of rhetoric:" "He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men." (Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried).
What is Zeugma?
200
This is the correct way to cite in a synthesis essay.
What is introduction to text, citation or paraphrase (Source A).
200
This is logical: motivated by reason rather than feeling.
What is rational?
200
This is a sentence that has no independent clause at all or the sentence is incomplete.
What is a fragmented sentence?
300
This is an example of this type of fallacy: "Ping-Pong is an extremely dangerous sport: last year, my friend got hit in the eye with a ping-pong ball and almost lost his vision in that eye."
What is a hasty generalization?
300
This is an example of this type of rhetoric: "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." (Goethe)
What is antithesis or Parallelism?
300
After you use a detail you need to have this.
What is development?
300
This is an unusual, observable event
What is phenonmenon?
300
This is a sentence that gives advice or instructions or that expresses a request or a command.
What is an imperative sentence?
400
This is an example of this type of fallacy: "If you really wanted to earn a 5 on the AP English Language and Composition exam, you wouldn't spend to much time on Facebook."
What is a Non Sequitur?
400
This is an example of this form of rhetoric: "The grave's a fine a private place, But none, I think, do there embrace." (Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress") and "We are not amused." (Attributed to Queen Victoria)
What is litotes?
400
These are specific ideas, not generalizations that a writer uses to support his or her thesis.
What are details?
400
This is presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious.
What is propitious?
400
This is a sentence with brackets that are punctuation marks used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text.
What is a parenthetical sentence?
500
This is an example of this type of fallacy: " AP Calculus BC class is impossible; either you get it or you don't"
What is false dichotomy?
500
This is an example of this type of rhetoric: "Never complain, never explain." (Francis Bacon) and "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What is isocolon?
500
This is how many paragraphs you should have per essay.
What is there is no correct number?
500
This is disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh, bitter, or caustic
What is sardonic?
500
This is when a sentence has at least two parts, either one of which can stand by itself (in other words, two independent clauses), but the two parts have been smooshed together instead of being properly connected.
What is a run-on or fused sentence?
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