Uses descriptive examples that make use of the sensory imagery to convey an image or represent an idea
What is description?
100
A part of speech usually ending in –ly that is used chiefly as a modifier.
What is an adverb?
100
The opposite of passive voice.
What is active voice?
100
The total time (hours, minutes) of the exam.
What is 3 hours and 15 minutes?
100
The acronym we use to contextualize rhetoric.
What is SOAPS?
200
Tells the story of what happened, the specific events that happened, and the people who were involved.
What is narration?
200
An extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the author intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story.
What is allegory?
200
A noun or noun phrase that tells you more about a nearby noun or pronoun.
What is appositive?
200
The first essay you should write for the exam is this type.
What is synthesis?
200
The shape Aristotle used to contextualize rhetoric.
What is a triangle?
300
Explains what a word, idea, or topic means by exploring it in depth.
What is definition?
300
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another.
What is alliteration?
300
A sentence that has the main clause or predicate at the end.
What is periodic?
300
The MC section of the exam is worth this % of your score.
What is 45%?
300
An idea or feeling that a word invokes as opposed to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
400
Examines why something happened or what its consequences were or will be
What is cause and effect?
400
A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
What is analogy?
400
Using similar grammatical forms to show that ideas in a sentence are of equal importance.
What is parallelism?
400
The minimum number of sources you need to synthesize information from for the synthesis essay.
What is three?
400
From the Greek word for "mask," this is the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others.
What is persona?
500
Uses specific examples to support an argument.
What is illustration?
500
The word for which a pronoun stands.
What is antecedent?
500
The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
What is epistrophe?
500
You need these four things in your argumentative essay.
What is assertion, concession, rebuttal, conclusion?
500
Aristotelian appeal that comes from the Greek word for both “suffering” and “experience.”