Grammar
The entire town was ________ by the tsunami.
affected or effected
affected
affect = verb, action
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Form of persuasion that appeals to reason instead of emotion to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way.
Argument
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Animal Farm by George Orwell is a political ______ about the Russian Revolution.
Allegory
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Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance. Sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well.
Balance
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Anaphora
A major _____ of the earthquake was that thousands lost their homes.
affect or effect
effect
effect = noun, consequence
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Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.
Juxtaposition
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_____ is the use of matching nouns, verbs, phrases, or clauses to express the same or similar ideas.
Parallelism
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Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally.
Asyndeton
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Allusion
Fix this sentence. Think about independent and dependent clauses.
As Ferb guided the spaceship through the stars an enormous meteor flew within inches of the craft.
As Ferb guided the spaceship through the stars, an enormous meteor flew within inches of the craft.
add a comma after the dependent clause
[Dependent clause, independent clause]
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Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often off by a colon).
Apposition
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- The king is dead, long live the king!
- "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind" - President John F. Kennedy
- It ain't over until it's over
Epanalepsis
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Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure.
Antithesis
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- "the great Emancipator"
- "swift-footed Achilles"
Epithet
Fix this sentence. Think about independent and dependent clauses.
Stan swerved the car recklessly into the fence he closed his eyes and braced himself for impact.
Stan swerved the car recklessly into the fence; he closed his eyes and braced himself for impact.
Add a semicolon after the 1st independent clause
[independent clause; independent clause]
fuse sentence/run on- two independent clauses that are not joined properly
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Sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them.
Hypotactic
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- "Pride goeth before a fall." - reference to Proverbs 16:18
- "The simplest questions are the hardest to answer." - Northrop Frye
Aphorism
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A form of argumentation in which the writer claims that one thing results from another, often used as part of a logical argument.
Causal relationship
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- "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
Epistrophe
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While gazing up at the forest canopy the boy saw birds flutter down from the trees.
While gazing up at the forest canopy, the boy saw birds flutter down from the trees
Add a comma after "canopy"
The comma comes after the dependent clause
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____ is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form.
Litotes
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- Alice in Wonderland
- Political cartoons
- The Onion (YouTube channel)
Satire
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One in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units.
Loose sentence
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Jane Austen's diction, syntax, rhetoric, rhythm, and use of figurative language is a reflection of her distinctive _____
Style