Figurative Language
What type of figurative language is being used below?
The wind whistled all night long.
Personification
This type of sentence makes a statement and ends with a period.
declarative
Ethos appeals to what?
Ethics or credibility
What rhetorical appeal is used below?
He is a forensics and ballistics expert for the federal government — if anyone's qualified to determine the murder weapon, it's him.
Ethos
Does the following sentence need a comma?
We are having a pep rally today but not tomorrow.
No
What type of figurative language is used below?
It was as cold as ice outside this morning.
Simile
This type of sentence gives a command or request.
Imperative
Pathos appeals to what?
Emotion or feelings
What rhetorical appeal is used below?
After years of this type of disrespect from your boss, countless hours wasted, birthdays missed … it's time that you took a stand.
Pathos
Where does the comma go in the following sentence?
After the game tonight I am going to go home and sleep.
After the game tonight, I am going to go home and sleep.
An exaggerated statement is called a what?
Hyperbole
This type of sentence expresses emotion, but can only be classified as this type if the punctuation matches the intensity of the feeling.
Exclamatory
Logos appeals to what?
Logical thinking (using facts, numbers, etc.)
What rhetorical appeal is used below?
You know me — I've taught Sunday School at your church for years, babysat your children, and served as a playground director for many summers — so you know I can run your preschool.
Ethos
When do you capitalize in the middle of sentences?
When using proper nouns: names of places, specific people. or when using I
Provide me an example of an alliteration
Answers may vary
This type of sentence asks a question, but can also be used to show doubt or uncertainty depending on how it’s phrased.
Interrogative
What rhetorical appeal is used below?
Students who practice timed ACT tests at least once a week are 76% more likely to raise their score.
Logos
What rhetorical appeal is used below?
More than one hundred studies have been conducted over the past decade, and none of them suggests that this is an effective treatment for hair loss.
Logos
What are conjunctions?
FANBOYS
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What type of figurative language is used below?
Life is a highway.
Metaphor
This type of sentence contains at least one dependent clause and at least one independent clause, and it often uses subordinating conjunctions such as although, since, or because.
Complex
What rhetorical appeal is used below?
Please think about adopting that dog. It has been at the shelter for 5 years, and it is just looking for a place to call home after its owner abandoned it.
Pathos
What rhetorical appeal is used below?
If we don't move soon, we're all going to die! It is too dangerous here.
Pathos
Where do the commas go in the following sentence?
Since we don't have school on Election Day I am going to sleep in for I am very tired.
Since we don't have school on Election Day, I am going to sleep in, for I am very tired.