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Terms
Terms
Terms
Terms
Terms
100
The process of reasoning.
What is Logic
100
An image of contradictory term (bitter sweet, pretty ugly).
What is Oxymoron?
100
A play on words.
What is a pun?
100
The format of a formal argument that consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
What is a syllogism?
100
The opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.
What is understatement?
200
A mistake in reasoning.
What is Logical Fallacy?
200
The aspect of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience.
What is Pathos?
200
One that does not expect can explicit answer. It is used to pose an idea to be considered by the speaker or audience.
What is Rhetorical Question?
200
A figure of speech that utilizes a part as a representative of the whole. "All hands on deck."
What is synecdoche?
200
An appeal to authority. When a writer establishes credibility.
What is Ethos/
300
A direct comparison between dissimilar things. "Your eyes are stars.'
What is a metaphor?
300
A term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing. It is scholarly and academic...
What is Pedantic?
300
A comic technique that ridicules through caustic language.
What is sarcasm?
300
Locating a number of sources and integrating them into the development and support of a writer's thesis/claim.
What is Synthesis?
300
an assertive statement
What is a declarative sentence?
400
A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea.
What is metonymy?
400
A sentence that presents its main clause at the end of the sentence for emphasis and sentence variety.
What is a Periodic Sentence?
400
A mode of writing based on ridicule, that criticizes the follies of society without necessary offering a solution.
What is Satire?
400
The author's attitude toward his subject.
What is Tone?
400
Authoritative- command
What is an imperative sentence?
500
The repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work used to develop theme or characters.
What is Motif?
500
The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts.
What is personification?
500
An indirect comparison that uses the words like or as to link the differing items in the comparison.
What is Simile?
500
A word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph.
What is a transition?
500
Asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence.