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Types of Sentences
RDs that begin with "A"
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Essays and things
100
Cumulative Sentence
What is a sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on?
100
Anaphora
What is repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines?
100
Example: "United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do."
What is inversion?
100
An extended comparison, often told as a story.
What is an analogy?
100
Literature, history and personal experience.
What is types of support for an argument essay?
200
Periodic Sentence
What is a setence whose main clause is withheld until the end?
200
Archaic Diction
What is "beliefs for which our forebears fought" an example of?
200
The placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts.
What is juxtaposition?
200
A "tired" or old expression.
What is a cliche?
200
The minimun number of sources you can use for the synthesis essay.
What is three?
300
Hortative Sentence
What is a sentence that exhorts, advises or calls to action?
300
Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.
What is Asyndeton?
300
Using a single feature to represent the whole. Example: "The White House decided..."
What is metonymy?
300
Word choice.
What is diction?
300
Audience, speaker, purpose.
What is the Rhetorical or Aristotelian triangle?
400
Imperative Sentence
What is a sentence that is used to command, implore, enjoin or entreat?
400
Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.
What is antithesis?
400
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
What is parallelism?
400
Word order/placement.
What is syntax?
400
The most famous essay by Ms Heuer's favorite writer, which we will be reading this week.
What is "Notes of a Native Son?"
500
Inverted Sentence
What is this sentence an example of: In that barn live four horses.
500
Repetition of words in reverse order.
What is antimetabole?
500
Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings.
What is zeugma?
500
A logical error or false claim.
What is a fallacy?
500
Heuer is to English and interesting things, as Newville is to math and boring stuff.
What is an analogy?