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Sentence Sickness
Tough Terminology
Is this a Rhetorical question?
100
When I saw the headline, I gasped. What is the subordinating conjunction in this sentence?
What is "when"?
100
I swam to the raft. What is the object of the preposition in this sentence?
What is raft?
100
A group of words that is puncutated as if it were a complete sentence but that does not contain both a subject and a verb or that does not express a complete thought. Ex: Which is the growing of plants in solutions rather than in soils.
What is a sentence fragment?
100
The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group. Ex: Minnesotans say "you betcha" Southerners say "y'all"
What is dialect?
100
"Je ne parle pas francais." (Burt Simpson) "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." (C.S. Lewis) Is this antithesis, antimetabole, paradox, distinctio, anadiplosis, epistrophe, or chiasmus?
What is a paradox?
200
Teresa spoke eloquently at the assembly. What is the adverb in the sentence, what question does it answer, and what word does it modify?
What is eloquently, how, spoke?
200
A complement that tells who or what receives the action of a verb or shows the result of the action is called a _________________ _______________
What is a direct object?
200
Two or more complete sentences run toghether as if they were one sentence. Ex:People just starting an exercise program should build gradually from an easier workout to a harder one trying to do too much too soon can leave a beginner quite sore.
What is a run-on sentence?
200
An indirect, kinder, or less harsh or hurtful way of expressing unpleasant information. Ex: I'm indisposed instead of I'm sitting on the toilet or I'm shaking the dew off the lily for ...
What is a euphemism?
200
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage is the real thing." "Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee." Is this epistrophe, zeugma, anadiplosis, parenthetical syntax, epiphora, antithesis, or epanalepsis?
What is antithesis?
300
In addition to what kind, what other questions does an adjective answer? Hint: last straw, two students, enough time
What is which one, how many, and how much?
300
The employer interviewed several applicants for the job. What is the direct object in this sentence?
What is applicants?
300
A run-on sentence that is two complete thoughts that have only a comma between them is called a _________ ______________ Ex: I run cross-country on my school's team, i get regular exercise.
What is a comma splice?
300
A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose. Ex: "Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
What is asyndeton?
300
"A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight!" Is this anadiplosis, chiasmus, epistrophe, antimetabole, imagery, distinctio, or antithesis?
What is epistrophe?
400
In addition to where, what are the other the other three questions that adverbs answer? Also, what p.o.s. do adverbs modify?
What is when, how, and to what extent? (how much, how often, how long)
400
A complement that often appears in sentences containing direct objects and that tells to whom or to what or for whom or for what the action of a transitive verb is done.
What is an indirect object?
400
When you use the same grammatical form for similar ideas, you create ______________ ___________
What is parallel structure?
400
A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole, such as "50 masts" representing 50 ships or "100 head of steer had to be moved to their grazing land."
What is synecdoche?
400
"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music and music is the best." (Frank Zappa) Is this epistrophe, anadiplosis, chiasmus, paradoxical syntax, polysyndical paradox, parallel pluralism, or epanalepsis?
What is anadiplosis?
500
And, but, for, nor, or, so, yet are known as ___________ ____________ both...and, either...or, whether...or, neither...or are all known as _______________ ____________
What is coordinating conjunctions and correlative conjunctions?
500
The Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the 1990 Nobel Prize in literature. What is the indirect object?
What is Octavio Paz?
500
We are studying geography, history, and learning about famous people. What is wrong with this sentence and how can it be fixed?
What is faulty parallelism and We are studying geography, history, and famous people.
500
A grammatically correct construction in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated.
What is zeugma?
500
"I have to have this operation. It isn't very seriou. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." (Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye) Is this a paradox, distinctio, antithesis, paradoxical chiasmus, pun, or understatement?
What is understatement?