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Grammar
Miscellaneous
Figurative Language
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Fallacies
100
"Everybody needs to bring their own canteen."
What is "Pronoun error?"
100
Using sensory details to draw a word picture of something so that we can see, feel, hear, taste, smell the world we are evoke. Good examples of this show rather than tell, with vivid, sensory details. Good examples of this can enhance any kind of writing or communicating because readers and audiences are made more aware of the subject by means of things tangible, sensory, directly apprehensible by the senses so that we can almost see or smell it. Name this rhetorical mode.
What is "Description?"
100
"a grieving nation"
What is "PERSONIFICATION?"
100
“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
What is "Anaphora?"
100
"Vote for me because the other guy is a liar."
What is "Ad hominem?"
200
"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing." (The King James Bible, I Corinthians 13)
What is "Periodic sentence?"
200
When you explain something in terms of what or where it comes from and/or what it leads—or might lead—to.
What is "Cause-Effect?"
200
"helpful bureaucrat"
What is "Oxymoron?"
200
“Many are called, but few are chosen.”
What is "Antithesis?"
200
Henry: But Jim, if you stay single, you'll be alone, you'll die alone, and it's likely that your poor starving cats will eat your corpse!
What is "Slippery Slope?"
300
"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards." (Bertrand Russell)
What is "Compound-Complex Sentence?"
300
Major premise: All mammals are warm-blooded. Minor premise: All black dogs are mammals. Conclusion: Therefore, all black dogs are warm-blooded.
What is "Syllogism?"
300
Men work together whether they work together or apart. ("The Tuft of Flowers")
What is "Paradox?"
300
“The assassin was not unacquainted with danger.”
What is "Litote?"
300
"Everyone I know likes chocolate; therefore everyone likes chocolate."
What is "Hasty Generalization."
400
"Poetry isn't dead it's alive and well."
What is "Run-on sentence?"
400
"The glove doesn't fit [the defendant], so you must acquit."
What is "Enthymeme?"
400
Examples: A meteorite is found in a field and supposed to be a star which has fallen to earth ("A Star in a Stoneboat") OR Ten thousand thousand fruit to touch. ("After Apple-Picking") OR The woods filling up with snow. ("Stopping by Woods")
What is "Hyperbole?"
400
“We heard it with our own ears.”
What is "Pleonasm?"
400
Henry: Hey Jim, you here alone? You know, you're so awesome/intelligent/attractive/funny and skilled at Uno, I can't believe you're still single! This is a fallacy which assumes the very point it wants to prove
What is "Begging the Question or Circular Reasoning?"
500
"Having finished the assignment, the TV was turned on."
What is "Dangling Modifier?"
500
Consider the drunk-driving college student, for example. While at an alcohol safety orientation, he learns that intoxicated drivers are less likely to sustain serious injuries in traffic accidents because their bodies remain relaxed. The student might use this information to conclude that his irresponsible behavior affords him some small degree of safety, disregarding the fact that his odds of being involved in a car crash are much greater than the average person’s. Attempts to sway people to a different opinion or behavior can sometimes backfire by reinforcing an undesirable attitude.
What is "Cognitive Dissonance?"
500
Examples: Out, Out: the injured boy holds up his hand "as if to keep / the life from spilling."
What is a "Metonymy?"
500
“Theirs was a glory unsurpassed”
What is "Hyperbaton?"
500
"If we just open up our borders, every beggar, lazy and crazy will be here tomorrow."
What is "Straw man?"