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The Basics
Watch your tone!
Parts of the sentence
Don't be so literal!
Use your logic!
100
The art of persuasion, Aristotle coined this term.
What is rhetoric?
100
I literally mean "to tear flesh", but I just make you want to.
What is sarcasm?
100
A group of words that contains both a subject and a predicate.
What is a clause?
100
Dear Mrs. Monroe, Hollywood hath great need of thee!
What is an apostrophe?
100
If we don't stop raising taxes, eventually people will have to give 95% of their money away!
What is slippery slope?
200
Appeals to logic
What is logos
200
A sermon
What is homily?
200
The two names for a clause that can't stand on its own.
What is dependent or subordinate?
200
Your love is like ice.
What is a simile?
200
I think you should study harder for your exam. After all, no one wants to be forced to eat tofu!
What is a red herring?
300
Appeals to emotion
What is pathos?
300
An overly scholarly or bookish tone.
What is pedantic?
300
The two names for the type of clause that can stand on its own
What is independent or main?
300
The wind screamed in the night air.
What is personification?
300
This one time, I saw an old lady run a red light. Therefore, all old people are horrible drivers.
What is a hasty generalization?
400
Appeals to character
What is ethos?
400
The tone of a teacher
What is didactic?
400
In the sentence, "Bob and Mary went to their friend's wedding," what is the antecedent?
What is Bob and Mary?
400
The murmuring of inumerable bees.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
When I forgot to brush my teeth, I got an A on my exam. I will never brush my teeth before a test again!
What is post hoc?
500
the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing
What is rhetorical modes?
500
The quote, “this sanguine coward, this bedpresser, this horseback breaker, this huge hill of flesh" is an example.
What is an invective?
500
In the sentence "F. Scott Fitzgerald is a brilliant author", author is one.
What is predicate nominative?
500
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! Misshapen chaos and well-seeming forms!
What is an oxymoron?
500
The other side will tell you that guns are as harmless as bananas.
What is a straw man?