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Can you repeat that?
Am I appealing to you?
Sin tax?
Don't study too hard, you might hurt yourself.
Potpourri
100
The literary period Shakespeare wrote in.
What is Elizabethan?
100
All juniors dance funny, that must be why you dance funny.
What is a deductive reasoning?
100
We decided that the movie was too violent, but our children, who like to watch scary movies, thought that we were wrong.
What is a compound-complex sentence.
100
An ashtray sitting next to the "no smoking" sign in the restaurant.
What is paradox?
100
Lord of the Flies, Pilgrim's Progress, Narnia
What are allegories?
200
The literary period Jane Austin wrote in?
What is the Romantic Period?
200
Establishing authority when making an argument.
What is a ethos or an ethical appeal?
200
"He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." (Jack Kerouac, On the Road)
What is asyndeton?
200
Austin Powers
What is parody?
200
"The B.L.T. left without paying."
What is metonymy?
300
Frankenstein is a classic example of this genre.
What is Gothic Novel?
300
Rhetorical exaggeration, often accomplished via comparisons, similes, and metaphors.
hyperbole
300
All you touch and all you see, Is all your life will ever be. - - - Pink Floyd, "Breathe" The second clause in this sentence.
What is an independent clause?
300
Tina Fay playing Sarah Palin
What is satire?
300
"We are not amused." (attributed to Queen Victoria)
What is litotes?
400
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is from this literary period.
What is American Contemporary?
400
When making an argument, you need to define this specialized language which might not be familiar to the layman.
What is jargon?
400
When you have an introductory subordinate clause.
When do you need a comma?
400
Scientific proof has emerged in the past few years that understanding this form of humor requires social intelligence lacking stupid people.
What is sarcasm?
400
One is the processes of breaking down of a whole into its constituent parts, and the other is reconstituting a whole from its parts.
What are Analysis and Synthesis?
500
Oscar Wilde is the most famous of the authors from this movement during the Victorian Period.
What is the Aestheticism and Decadence Movement?
500
Using a reasoned argument.
What is logos?
500
What you should use to indicate that your sentence contains a phrase which when taken out does not alter the meaning of the sentence.
What are commas?
500
This person satirizes the news commentator.
Who is John Stewart?
500
The three types of irony.
What is verbal, situational, and dramatic?