The comparison of two items using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
In order to receive this Christmas gift from his mom, thirteen year old Gregory had to agree to a contract.
What is an iPhone?
100
This company was heavily criticized (and satirized) for their stereotypical portrayals of ethnic minorities, depiction of protests, and law enforcement relations in an advertisement.
What is Pepsi?
100
According to the Essay Companion, the number of examples you should try to include in each body paragraph.
What is two?
100
The three corners of the Aristotilean triangle.
What are speaker, audience, and subject?
200
A reference to a historical event, literary piece, or other commonly known moment/event/text.
What is an allusion?
200
Author Will Bardenwerper and Senator John McCain think displays honoring American troops at these events are more marketing ploy than patriotism.
What are sporting events?
200
The persona presented by Jonathan Swift in “A Modest Proposal” proposes that children of this country be eaten as a solution to poverty and famine.
What is Ireland?
200
"It really makes the reader think," "it grabs the reader's attention," and "it paints a picture in the reader's head" are all examples of these.
What are banned rhetorical analysis phrases?
200
These are the three appeals that are used to craft arguments.
What are appeals to logic, appeals to credibility, and appeals to emotion?
300
The placement of two items next to each other to make a point.
What is juxtapositioning?
300
This company controversially stopped selling specific merchandise that referenced/alluded to Black Lives Matter.
What is Walmart?
300
This high school valedictorian read a speech at his graduation ceremony that was critical of the education he had received.
Who is Kareem Elnahal?
300
This is what you try to create between sources in your synthesis essay.
What is a conversation?
300
While useful to know what they are called, it is far more important to be able to discuss their rhetorical function.
What are rhetorical devices?
400
These are the strong meanings a word might carry that are different from their dictionary definitions.
What are connotations?
400
According to Michael Pollan, this word doesn't mean anything anymore.
What is "natural"?
400
In the Hopi language, this word means “life out of balance.”
What is "Koyaanisqatsi"?
400
According to the Essay Companion, this is what AP *actually* stands for.
What is "answer the prompt"?
400
The situation in which an argument takes place, it is one of the sides of the triangle.
What is context?
500
Several sentences or clauses organized in a similar fashion use this structure.
What is parallelism/parallel structure?
500
Justine Sacco's stupid tweet ruined her life for a while, and this writer told us all about it.
Who is Jon Ronson?
500
In an essay published in 1946, this author criticized the political language of his day as being “ugly and innaccurate."
Who is George Orwell?
500
This is the word that really should never appear in any of your essays.
What is "you"?
500
This describes the speaker's attitude toward the subject, conveyed through purposeful diction.