Grammar
A sentence where the full meaning is not understood until the end.
What is a periodic sentence?
This rhetorical mode is used whenever evaluating two alternatives.
What is Comparison and Contrast?
the repetition or variation of an image or an idea in a work that is used to develop the theme or characters
What is a motif?
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.
What is a connotation?
"Of course that writer supports gun control; she is a Democrat!"
What is an "ad hominem argument?"
A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units, such as phrases and clauses.
What is loose sentence?
This rhetorical mode considers spatial details. It is essential for making writing interesting.
What is description?
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole.
What is synecdoche?
The choice and use of words in speech or writing.
What is diction?
"Joan is scratched by a cat while visiting her friend. Two days later she comes down with a fever. Joan concludes that the cat's scratch must be the cause of her illness."
What is "Post Hoc?"
"He went to the market because he needed more milk, and then he made pudding." The type of sentence shown here.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
This type of writing conveys chronology as it develops details in the order they occurred.
What is narration?
An unusual and elaborate comparison between two things.
What is a conceit?
The same word or words begin each clause or sentence.
What is anaphora?
This appeal encourages the listener or reader to agree with a position because everyone else does.
What is "bandwagon appeal."
A series of phrases or clauses in a sentence (or sentences) that show similar grammatical structure.
What is a parallel structure?
This rhetorical mode is used by writers when they want to explain how to do something or how something was done.
What is process analysis?
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
What is litotes?
The use of more conjunctions than what is necessary.
What is polysyndeton?
This type of argument states that a relatively small first step inevitably leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant impact.
What is "slippery slope?"
The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
What is an antecedent?
This rhetorical mode divides up information into groups according to certain characteristics.
What is classification?
The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.
What is a zeugma?
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
What is a syllogism?
This is shifting the attention away from the topic being argued by introducing an issue that has no logical connection to the argument, though it is tangentially related to it.
What is a "red herring?"