Persuasive Devices
Sound Devices
Logical Fallacies
Grammar Errors
Confused Words
100
8 out of 10 dentists choose Colgate toothpaste
What is an example of bandwagon?
100
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
What is an example of alliteration?
100
"You can't believe Jack when he says the proposed policy would help the economy. He doesn't even have a job."
What is an example of Personal Attack (ad hominem)?
100
I love to eat cake, strawberry shortcake is my favorite.
What is a comma splice?
100
I cannot (except / accept) any wrong answers on the test.
What is accept?
200
Lebron James wearing Adidas warm ups to an interview
What is testimonial
200
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. The rhyme in lines 2 and 4.
What is an example of slant rhyme?
200
Guns are like hammers—they're both tools with metal parts that could be used to kill someone. We should restrict both.
What is an example false analogy?
200
She don't love me, and I'm so sad.
What is subject-verb agreement?
200
The medicine is unlikely to (affect / effect) me in any negative ways.
What is affect?
300
"I believe our country would benefit from Obamacare," said pop star Lady Gaga.
What is testimonial?
300
I had a cat who wore a hat. He looked cool but felt the fool. The rhyme used in these poem lines.
What is internal rhyme?
300
America — love it or leave it!
What is an example of false dilemma?
300
Over break we enjoyed a swim at the pool, riding horses, and to sleep late every day.
What is faulty parallelism?
300
I don't know (whose / who's) purse this is.
What is whose?
400
Presidential candidate John Kerry was seen at the local Dairy Queen today buying a chocolate-dipped cone.
What is plain folks?
400
Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. The rhyme in lines 1, 2, and 4.
What is end rhyme?
400
Bill lives in a large building, so his apartment must be large.
What is an example of non sequitur?
400
The mechanic explains the engine trouble to students who asked questions about it.
What is a verb shift?
400
After the fire drill, the principal told us to (precede / proceed) with our day as planned.
What is proceed?
500
Three hunters are sitting in a living room of a home new leather La-z-boy recliners looking at a big screen tv eating chicken wings. In the background you see 6 trophy bucks mounted on the wall. On the coffee table is a big box of Harmon's "Dominant Buck" Scent Attractant.
What is transfer?
500
a rhyme involving words that are similar in spelling but not in sound, such as stone / none, lint / pint, love / move, and have / grave.
What is eye rhyme?
500
If you smoke that cigarette, you'll end up being a drug dealer someday!
What is an example of slippery slope?
500
We won't go unless everyone has their own money.
What is pronoun-antecedent agreement?
500
I just love the way your shoes are a perfect (compliment / complement) to your dress!
What is complement?
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