Definitions
Asking a question without expecting a response
Rhetorical Question
Apostrophe
A figure of speech directly addressing an absent person, abstract concept, or inanimate object.
Chocolate, why must you be so delicious?
Which of the following best describes the tone of the second paragraph?
Style
free from error; in accordance with fact or truth.
What is Correct?
A written discussion incorporating support from several sources of differing views
What is a Synthesis Essay?
A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
Anecdote
Repetition
An instance of using a word, phrase or clause more than once close proximity.
Which of the following best describes the author’s exigence in the passage?
Rhetorical Situation
Not the proper meaning of a word
What is Too Literal?
MAP it
What is message, audience, and purpose?
Word choice that has an implied or suggested meaning. Words that carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings in addition to their literal meanings
Connotative Diction
Simile
Comparing one idea, object, or image the another dissimilar one by using like or as
In the eighth paragraph, the author’s statement that “My story is all too common” serves which of the following purposes?
Reasoning and Organization
the answer doesn't have all the information that is being asked
What is Partly True?
Reference to another work of literature, art, historical or current event. In many speeches and essays, references to the Bible, mythology, or other historical events are common.
Allusion
Juxtaposition
Putting two or more things side by side in order to compare them
In the fourth paragraph, the author discusses diseases in wild salmon primarily to
Claims and Evidence
Answer choices are over wordy
What is Extreme Language?
a type of essay that looks at a text in terms of rhetoric
What is a Rhetorical Analysis Essay?
When a writer or speaker repeats the same phrase at the beginning of a series of sentences or clauses.
Anaphora
Exemplification
A pattern of argument that uses examples to support a claim.
The author uses a series of questions in the eighth paragraph primarily to express her
Reasoning and Organization
the ideas are not the same in the passage and the answer choice
What is Recycled Language?
A genre of writing that requires the student to investigate a topic, collect, generate, and evaluate evidence, and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner.
What is an Argument Essay?