Rhetoric and Terms
A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
An action word.
What is a verb?
The most important sentence in an essay which all the paragraphs seek to defend.
What is the thesis statement?
The author of the autobiography Survive to Live or "La Limonada".
Who is Jonathan Orozco?
He claims that the purpose of beauty is purely related to the evolutionary instinct to select a mate.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The type of speech or writing which uses precise vocabulary and interesting sentence structures while avoiding first and second person pronouns and colloquialisms.
What is formal language?
The optional mark that comes after the second last item in a list.
What is an Oxford comma?
Narratives, questions, descriptions, proverbs, provocative statements, quotations, and statistics are all types of this.
What is a hook?
He wrote “It is our nature to desire a monument, be it slate or marble, or a pillar of granite, or a glorious memory in the universal heart of man.”
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
He claims that beauty in architecture and people requires symmetry and due proportion.
Who is Vitruvius?
What is erotema/rhetorical question?
This mark sets up a list or the climax of a sentence.
What is a colon?
A summarizing sentence that begins a body paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
This woman tragically lost a necklace and spent ten years working to replace it.
Who is Madame Mathilde Loisel?
He claims that behind everything truly beautiful is the divine, and it is through our souls that we perceive that beauty.
Who is Plotinus?
A type of poetic foot which has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
This mark separates two independent clauses less harshly than a period.
What is a semicolon?
A paragraph containing an antitheses followed by an argument against it.
What is a Refutation?
She wrote, “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
She claims that the definition of beauty continues to expand depending on what a particular culture and time period needs to express.
Who is Christine Perrin?
The three appeals commonly used for persuasion.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
A word that shows location (on, in, under), direction (to, into, onto, from), or time (before, after, during).
What is a preposition?
The name of the common citation style that uses a combination of in-text citation and a Works Cited list.
What is MLA?
He wrote, “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
Who is Charles Spurgeon?
He claims that nature is a powerful conduit of beauty, and beauty, truth, and goodness are “different faces of the same All”
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?