VOCABULARY
When you place two items side by side to present a comparison/contrast.
What is Juxtaposition?
The part of your essay in which you address the opposing viewpoint and attack it with your supporting evidence.
What is a counterargument?
An argument in which the person attacks the speaker and not their argument.
What is Ad Hominem?
An author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work. It appeals to human senses to deepen the reader's understanding of the work.
What is Imagery?
An essay in which you analyze the strategies an author uses in his/her work.
What is a Rhetorical Analysis Essay?
The use of corresponding grammar or syntactical forms.
What is Parallelism?
What is a word/phrase meaning in context question?
If we allow gay marriage , the next thing we know, people will want to marry their dogs, or their cats, or even their pigs!
What is a Slippery Slope?
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
What is Antithesis?
A paragraph analyzing the content and the delivery of a unit of spoken written discourse. Usually four to five sentences.
What is a Precis?
A word, phrase, clause, or sentence to which another word (especially a following relative pronoun) refers.
What is an Antecedent?
This section of the exam weighs the most at 55%.
What is the multiple choice section?
Newspapers mention that a known terrorist grew up playing violent video games, even though no link has been found between video games and becoming a terrorist.
What is a Faulty Causality?
"We named our Chihuahua Goliath"
What is Antiphrasis?
What is another name for an Ad Hominem fallacy.
What is a tu quoque fallacy?
A word meaning lascivious, or have lustful thoughts or desires.
What is Prurient?
The maximum you can earn on an essay without citing at least three of your sources.
What is a 5 scoring essay?
What is a red herring fallacy?
A statement of opinion expressed in a witty manner.
What is an aphorism?
Defined rhetoric as "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion."
Who is Aristotle?
An ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary.
EX: This is no small problem.
What is a Litotes?
This approach to the essay enables the writer to make the text flow in a meaningful and organized way.
What is an organic approach?
The statement:
The priest told me I should have faith.
I have faith that my son will do well in school this year.
Therefore, the priest should be happy with me.
What is an Equivocation?
When the author introduces concepts in a particular order
What is chiasmus?
A mnemonic used when analyzing the text.
What is the SOAPStone?