Grammar
Persuasion
Testing Vocabulary
Poetry
Figurative Language
100
adjective & noun
What is AN APPOSOTIVE???
100
is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader
What is ethos?
100
Something that is factual is concerned with facts or contains facts, rather than giving theories or personal interpretations.
What is Factual claims???
100
a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
What is a rhyme scheme???
100
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is allusion
200
An ????????????? (or ????????) is a clause that can stand by itself, also known as a simple sentence. An ??????????????contains a subject and a predicate; it makes sense by itself.
What is an independent clause???
200
???????is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.
What is pathos
200
Many English words are formed by taking basic words and adding combinations of prefixes and suffixes to them. A basic word to which affixes (prefixes and suffixes) are added is called a ??????? because it forms the basis of a new word.
What is root words
200
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
What is stanza
200
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
What is hyperbole
300
In linguistics, a ??????????? (or a subordinate clause) is a clause that augments an independent clause with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence. ??????????? either modify the independent clause of a sentence or serve as a component of it.
What is Dependent Clause
300
????? is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason.
What is Logos
300
not including; other than
What is except
300
is a form of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person
What is a lyrical poem
300
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
What is imagery
400
a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a compound complex sentense
400
a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument
What is Fallacies
400
the action or process of inducting someone to a position or organization.
What is induction
400
??????? is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metred verse.
What is narrative poem
400
draws on our senses of touch, taste, smell sight and sound to create a vivid and evocative picture in the mind of the reader.
What is sensory images
500
a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses
What is complex sentence???
500
particular activity or cause that has suddenly become fashionable or popular
What is Bandwagon?
500
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference
500
is an open form (see Poetry analysis) of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech
What is free verse
500
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration
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