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200

This part of the sentence is the main verb. 


Predicate

200

With Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, this civil rights leader wrote March.

John Lewis

200

These are mistaken beliefs, especially ones which form the basis of unsound arguments

Fallacies
200

This is a pattern of sounds at the ends of poetic lines.

Rhyme Scheme

200

If you know that a character shouldn’t open a door in a horror film because you know what they don’t.

Dramatic Irony

400

This is a group of words that contains and subject and predicate.

Clause

400

If at the end of an emotional movie, you feel better about the world because of the art you just experienced, you’ve felt this.

Catharsis

400

This type of fallacy is  where an argument is accepted as true based solely on its popularity or acceptance by many people

Bandwagon or Ad Popular

400

Repeated internal vowel sounds.

Assonace

400

This is where the speaker in Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider” sees the spider in question.

On a promontory.

600

This word or phrase indicates that a clause has informative value to add to the sentence's main idea, signaling a cause-and-effect relationship or a shift in time and place between the two clause

Subordinating conjunction.

600

This character is “the maid” that Gratiano beholds in Belmont.

Nerissa

600

In Twelve Angry Men, Number 10's insistence that you can’t trust “them” is an example of this type of fallacy.

Hasty Generalization

600

This poem about a kestrel by Gerard Manly Hopkins is dedicated to “Christ, Our Lord"

The Windhover

600

Like Hamlet’s need to know, this flaw leads a tragic hero to his or her downfall.

Hamartia
800

This is the practice of varying the length and structure of sentences to avoid monotony and provide appropriate emphasis

Sentence Variety

800

His warning go unheeded in Sighet.

Moishe the Beadle

800

This is when an intentionally misrepresented proposition  is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.

Straw Man

800

In poetry, a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Rhythm.

800

What came before, grammatically speaking.

Antecedent.

1000

Besides a comma and coordinating conjunction, this will also help build a compound sentence.

Semicolon

1000

Her background in anthropology helps shape the way she tells the story of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

Ursula K. LeGuin
1000

An example of this type of fallacy is when a politician, is asked about a specific policy, they might launch into a discussion about a completely unrelated issue to avoid answering the question

Red Herring

1000

This type of poem, like “My Last Duchess” tells a story through the speech of a particular character.

Dramatic Poem

1000

Second to last.

Penultimate

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