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Syntax and Grammar
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Writing
100
The writer’s word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness
What is diction?
100
Fact Definition Cause Value Policy
What are the five types of claims?
100
A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it
What is an appositive?
100
A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them
What is an analogy?
100
This is a highly structured four-sentence paragraph blending summary and analysis. Each of the four sentences requires specific information.
What is a precis?
200
Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid.
What is figurative language?
200
The Oration or Classical model
What is a type of argument essay?
200
A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. Example: I arrived at the San Diego airport after a long, bumpy ride and multiple delays.
What is a loose sentence?
200
This is a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. It is the opposite of hyperbole
What is litotes?
300
A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
300
A syllogism contains these
What are a major and minor premise?
300
Refers to using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter. Example: We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers -- in English, Hebrew, and Arabic."
What is parallelism?
300
A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art
What is an allusion?
300
When writing good paragraphs, it is important to include sentence variety. Give at least five examples of what that might mean
What are compound sentences, complex sentences, appositives phrases, participial phrases, adjective clauses, rhetorical questios, etc. ?
400
An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language
What is invective?
400
In additions to the rhetorical triangle, analysts must consider surface details. List some
What are diction, syntax, imagery, figurative language?
400
The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. The AP language exam occasionally asks for this in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences. “But it is the grandeur of all truth which can occupy a very high place in human interests that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds; it exists eternally, by way of germ of latent principle, in the lowest as in the highest, needing to be developed but never to be planted.”
What is the antecedent?
400
A verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person’s distinctive physical features or other characteristics.
What is caricature?
400
Called 'modes of discourse", these
What are narration, description, argument, and exposition?
500
The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. Connotations may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes
What is connotation?
500
This kind of rhetorical fallacy focuses on the speaker and not the issue?
What is ad hominen?
500
This sentence contains an example of the answer. Constant complaining helps no one.
What is a gerund?
500
A term from the Greek meaning “changed label” or “substitute name,” ; a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. For example, a news release that claims “the White House declared” rather than “the President declared”
What is metonymy?
500
Name the six parts of the classical argument essay:
What is 1.Introduction (exordium),2.Background (narratio), 3.Thesis (partitio), 4. Development of Thesis (confirmatio) 5.Consideration of Opposing Positions (refutatio), 6.Conclusion (peroratio)