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Parallel Structure
Decode that Metaphor
Grammar Hell
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Fallacies
100
I would like a hamburger, fries and can I get my onions on the side? (Answer, "What is parallel structure?" or, "What is no parallel structure?")
What is no parallel structure?
100
The following two things are being compared in this metaphor: But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
What is Juliet and the sun?
100
All sentences must have a subject and a __________.
What is a predicate.
100
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.
What is an "connotation?"
100
"Of course that writer supports gun control; she is a Democrat!"
What is an "ad hominem argument?"
200
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." (Answer, "What is parallel structure?" or, "What is no parallel structure?")
What is parallel structure?
200
These TWO things are being compared in the following metaphor: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
What is you with a summer's day?
200
If you study, you will pass the test. What kind of sentence is this?
What is conditional?
200
The choice and use of words in speech or writing.
What is "diction?"
200
This is a statement that does not relate logically to what comes before it.
What is "a non sequitur?"
300
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." (Answer, "What is parallel structure?" or "What is no parallel structure?")
What is parallel structure?
300
The following two things are being compared in this metaphor: I got the drunk up [the stairs] somehow. He was eager to help but his legs were rubber.
What are the drunk's legs with rubber?
300
Despite all the problems we're having, Lincoln will be an awesome school next year. What kind of sentence is this?
What is periodic?
300
"If you want my final opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."
What is an analogy?
300
This appeal encourages the listener or reader to agree with a position because everyone else does.
What is "bandwagon appeal."
400
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character." (Answer, "What is parallel structure?" or, "What is no parallel structure?")
What is no parallel structure?
400
What two things are being compared in the following metaphor? I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
What is life with a road?
400
Lincoln will be an awesome school next year despite all the problems we're having. What kind of sentence is this?
What is loose?
400
The movie "Duck Soup," which makes fun of people's stupidity and the way power is abused.
What is satire?
400
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?"
500
The following example of parallel structure comes from a famous speech given by a famous American president (which we read earlier in the year): With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
What is Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address?
500
These FOUR things are being compared in the following metaphor: All the world's a stage and men and women merely players.
What is the world with a stage and men and women with players (actors)?
500
Does the following sentence have parallel structure? I come to bury Caesar, not praise him
No!
500
Team America makes fun of every patriotic action movie.
What is parody?
500
This is shifting the attention away from an important issue by introducing an issue that has no logical connection to the discussion at hand.
What is a "red herring?"