Explain paradox
•Your enemy’s friend is your enemy.
•I am nobody.
•“What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.” – George Bernard Shaw
•Truth is honey which is bitter.
•“I can resist anything but temptation.” – Oscar Wilde
What is a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities?
100
Analogy
What is a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification?
100
Explain pronouns and give three examples
What is I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody, etc.) is a word that takes the place of a noun?
100
a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument
What is a fallacy?
100
fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself, it does not contain even one independent clause
What is a sentence fragment?
200
expose'
The show aired an _________ on the candidate's financial indiscretions.
What is a public exposure or revelation, as of something discreditable?
200
irony
What is a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects?
200
Adverb and give an example
What is a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there )?
200
a statement about a group of people or things that is based on only a few people
What is a generalization?
200
The sentences Yoda from the movie “Star Wars” uses and other writers use for effect. Sentences in which the verb comes before the subject. This is done to put more emphasis on the verb.
Example: Trained as a Jedi he must be
What is an inverted sentence or inversion?
300
Meditation
"his later letters are intense ___________ on man's exploitation of his fellows"
What is a written or spoken discourse expressing considered thoughts on a subject?
300
Explain connotation and denotation
What is refers to the wide array of positive and negative associations that most words naturally carry with them, whereas the other is the precise, literal definition of a word that might be found in a dictionary?
300
parallel structure
What is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence and making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern?
300
argument or reaction directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.
What is ad hominem?
300
This is a busy sentence. Often, the very last word in the sentence will be the point the writer wants to emphasize,
to create suspense, be more persuasive than normal sentences as they allow a writer the put all the reasoning or evidence up front before making the final point.
What is periodic sentence?
400
Dissemination
"___________ of public information"
What is the act of spreading something, especially information, widely; circulation?
400
metaphor and give an example
What is figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two?
400
independent clause
What is a clause that can stand on its own, by itself. It does not need to be joined to any other clauses, because it contains all the information necessary to be a complete sentence?
They have three components:
1.They have a subject - they tell the reader what the sentence is about.
2.They have an action or predicate - they tell the reader what the subject is doing.
3.They express a complete thought - something happened or was said.
400
1.Person A is (claimed to be) an authority on subject S.
2.Person A makes claim C about subject S.
3.Therefore, C is true.
What is argument from authority or false authority?
400
an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast, a useful device for writers to portray their characters or diction in great detail to create suspense and achieve a rhetorical effect
What is juxtaposition?
500
Conciliatory
Admirably, the response to the address from Republican leaders in Congress, so far, has been fairly open and ___________.
What is intended or likely to placate or pacify?
500
euphemism and give an example
What is a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing?
500
dashes
What punctuation mark indicates sudden changes in tone or thought within a sentence, sets off some sentence elements, and creates emphasis or emphases ?
500
a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
What is an anecdote?
500
you write critical explanations to add extra insight about something, Mrs. Kennedy makes you do this a lot