A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units, such as phrases and clauses.
What is a loose sentence?
100
This is the "I" in DIDLS.
What is imagery?
100
This is the conclusion...
Pizza is a substance made of cardboard.
All substances made of cardboard are good to eat.
What is "Pizza is a substance that is good to eat"?
100
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.
What is connotation.
100
This word means troublesome or rascally.
What is nefarious?
200
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it.
What is a synecdoche?
200
This is the tone of the following line.
"I'd give you a standing ovation, but I don't have any feet."
What is morose, gloomy, sullen, surly, or despondent?
200
This is the major claim of...
"No teachers are eligible for student government.
No teachers are students."
What is...
"All students are eligible for student government."?
200
Historical, literary, religious, or mythical references are all types of these.
What is an allusion?
200
This is a begging person.
What is a suppliant?
300
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
What is a litote?
300
This is a potential purpose of exclamatory sentences.
What is arousing emotion or sympathy?
300
This is an addition minor claim included in...
"God is love.
Love is blind.
...
Ray Charles is God."
What is "Ray Charles is blind."?
300
A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule is this
What is a satire?
300
This is a sound that can annoy or teach.
What is a din?
400
This is the audience we are most concerned with in rhetorical analysis.
What is implied audience?
400
These are some of the main components of how diction can be analyzed.
What is...? (answers will vary)
400
These are the major and minor premises of...
"Some college people are believers in rule by law."
What is...
"All rational people believe in rule by law.
Some rational people are college professors."
400
An extended metaphor or surprising analogy that shows intellectual cleverness is this.
What is a conceit?
400
This relates to money.
What is pecuniary?
500
This occurs when a message has the correct time and place.
What is kairos?
500
Detail: An indirect way of expressing; to talk around a topic, essentially avoiding it
What is circumlocution?
500
These are the minor and major premises.
"Lobsters are better than God."
What is "Nothing is better than God.
Having a lobster is better than having nothing."?
500
This consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. Ex: “But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.” President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address