The writer bases the argument on insufficient or unrepresentative evidence.
What is Hasty Generalization?
100
Wolf-raised human twins said to have founded the city of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
100
A child of nature ,that lost his parents at a young age, but adopted "nature" as his mother.
Who is William Wordsworth?
100
Awarded by the Columbia University Genres, it is the highest U.S. Literary Award.
What is The Pulitzer Prize?
100
A poetic form which originated in Italy, a distinctive poetic style that uses system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen lines.
What is a sonnet?
200
The following sentence is an example of what logical common fallacy? “Politicians are inherently dishonest because no honest person would run for public office?”
What is Begging the Question?
200
The movement toward classical architecture, literature, drama, and design that took place during the Restoration and Enlightenment.
Who is Neferiti?
200
An epic hero of Old English that kills the monster Grendel and its mother.
What is Beowulf?
200
The 18th century literary and philisophical movement toward classical architecture, literature, drama, and design that took place during the Restoration and Enlightenment.
What is Neoclassicism?
200
This popular technique was used during the Enlightenment, in which it was believed that an artist could correct folly by using art as a mirror to reflect society.
What is a Satire?
300
These essays are often anecdotal, experiential, and personal.
What is a Narrative Essay?
300
Zeus' sister whose sorrow over her daugheter's kidnapping causes winter to occur.
Who is Demeter?
300
Jane Austen, William Blake, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth are prominent poets in this 18th Century period.
What is the Romantic Period?
300
This very reclusive female massachusetts writer only published 7 poems in her lifetime.
What is Emily Dickinson?
300
An expression that, through time and overuse, has grown stale and lost all effect.
What is Cliche'?
400
This documentation style features brief parenthetical citations in the text keyed to an alphabetical list of works cited that appears at the end of the work.
What is the Modern Language Association (MLA) Style?
400
Roman equivalent of the Greek god Dionysius.
Who is Bacchus?
400
He was a prolific writer, producing volumes of poetry, translations of the "Illiad" and the "Odyssey".
Who is Alexander Pope?
400
Faulkner's famous fictional setting for most of his works was this imaginary county in Mississippi.
What is Yoknapatapha County?
400
A brief reference to a familar person or thing.
What is an Allusion?
500
This sentence has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses.
What is a Complex Sentence?
500
The early popular female poet who wrote so well she was called the "Tenth Muse" by Plato.
Who is Sappho?
500
The term coined by poet Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits,
What are Metaphysical Poets?
500
These stories have endured because they are entertaining, they embody the culture’s belief system, and they contain fundamental human truths by which people have lived for centuries.