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rhetoric
argument
100
Proper word use.
What is diction?
100
A sentence with only a subject, a verb and an object. eg. DY won the game.
What is simple sentence?
100
Words that sound like the sound they represent.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
argument that leans on reasoning
What is logos
100
an attack on a person, not the reasoning of an argument
What is ad hominem
200
The order of words in a sentence.
What is syntax?
200
A sentence with dependent and independent clause. eg. Although I have the best English teacher, I still have no good writing skills.
What is complex sentence?
200
Repetion of consonant sounds.
What is consonance?
200
argument appealing to feelings
What is pathos
200
attack on the reasoning of an argument
What is ad res
300
The phrases used to introduce or explain a quotation.
What is signal phrase?
300
A sentence that begins with an independent clause and is followed by a series of free modifying phrases. eg. The actor spoke his first words of the play, his mind racing, his forehead glistening in the foot lights, hoping, just hoping to remember his first line.
What is accumulative sentence?
300
The repetion of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
300
argument that appeals to the authority of the speaker
What is ethos
300
fallacy of citing data fraudulently
What is misleading statistics
400
Expression where the part represents the whole.
What is synecdoche?
400
A sentence, whose subject is seperated from the eventual object of the sentence by a series of modifiers, qualifiers, or explanations. eg. Hawthorne, the nineteenth century transcendentalist, believer that all humanity could rise above the materialistic confinds of his society, wrote long, excrutiating, highly detailed sentences.
What is periodic or suspensive sentence?
400
acrostic that helps you remember everything to address in a rhetorical analysis
What is smell: sender-receiver, message, emotional appeal, language, logic
400
fallacy of proving something because it happened after something else a then b, so a must cause b
What is causation/correlation or post hoc ergo propter hoc
500
the difference between dialect and accent
What is regional language versus individual's distinct characteristics of inflection, tone or diction?
500
The acrostic employed to remember what to use in a style analysis.
What is SIFTT? (Symbol, Image, Figurative language, Tone, Theme)
500
Ancient culture that formulated the rules of rhetoric.
What is Greek?
500
process of moving from a general rule to a specific example
What is deduction