Grammar
Grammar
Rhetoric Devices
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Analysis/ Test-taking Strategies
100
#14
C - Ambiguous Pronoun
100
Question 1
B - Parallel Structure
100
Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.
Antithesis. Effect/Meaning
100
“Five years have passed; Five summers, with the length of Five long winters! and again I hear these waters…” - William Wordsworth
Anaphora. Meaning Effect?
100
Before picking an answer choice, you should do what with the other answer choices?
Read all answer choices
200
#11
B - Who (comma before which)
200
#5
B- Dangling Modifier
200
For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth. - Obama
Allusion. Effect/Meaning?
200
"The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divides us has come." -- Nelson Mandela
Epistrophe. Meaning/Effect?
200
This is what you should do as you read, especially after important sections of text.
What is underline key points in the text and/or take notes in the margins? Annotate.
300
#10
E - Semicolon/Run on sentence
300
#3
A - Subject-verb agreement
300
Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer.
Analogy/Parallel Structure. Meaning/effect?
300
"We find ourselves rich in goods but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We're torn by division, wanting unity." -- Richard M. Nixon, Inaugural Address
Antithesis. Meaning/Effect
300
This will cause you 100% of the time to get the question wrong.
Not answering/leaving it blank.
400
#12
B- Pronoun antecedent - his/her
400
#7
C- Subject verb agreement. Each is singular.
400
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” -Shakespeare
Analogy. Meaning/Effect?
400
"...that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy
Asyndeton. Meaning/effect?
400
How many pieces of evidence do I need in my rhetorical analysis?
2 pieces of evidence. CI & Rhetorical Device.
500
#15
I is for subject, Me if for object.
500
#9
Whom, Whom, Who's
500
Easy come, easy go.
Parallel Structure/Repetition. Meaning Effect?
500
"Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly--mostly--let them have their whiteness." (Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969)
Polysyndeton. Meaning/effect?
500
Name three of the six things you must include in your thesis?
In (text name), (Speaker) uses (rhetorical strategy) and addresses (audience) in order to (purpose) and to emphasize (argument).
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