Vocab Terms
What the text is mainly about
Central Idea
What is Onomatopoeia?
a word that describes a sound
Rhetorical appeals?
Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Which country gifted the statue of Liberty?
France.
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The lesson/moral of the story
Theme
The tree's limb cracked and groaned when lightning hit it.
Personification
Three types of logical reasoning?
Inductive, Deductive, and Abductive
what is the world's largest ocean?
Pacific
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The turning point in a story
Climax
Some people throw in the towel before they should and never learn the value of working hard for success.
Idiom
three types of rhetorical devices?
This creature guards the entrance to the vaults at Gringotts Wizarding Bank.
Dragon.
On a multiple-choice question, doing this can help you get closer to the right answer by getting rid of the ones that don’t make sense.
Eliminate choices.
a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something
Perspective
As Thomas chased after the bus, he felt like he was Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings.
Allusion/Simile.
(no points for just simile).
where general conclusions are drawn from specific observations.
Inductive reasoning.
This continent is the only one with land in all four hemispheres.
Africa.
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REVIEW YOUR TEST.
the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Diction
This figure of speech combines contradictory terms for effect, as in “deafening silence” or “bittersweet.”
Oxymoron.
a flaw in reasoning that makes an argument invalid.
Logical fallacy.
This Greek mythological figure was cursed to turn everything he touched into gold.
King Midas.
Words like “always,” “never,” and “except” are clues that a question might be tricky. You should do this when you spot one.
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