a manner of writing that uses criticism with wit or humor in order to improve mankind or human situations or behaviors.
What is satire?
100
Making an idea less important than it really is.
What is understatement?
100
Before you enter, you must pay!
Is what type of sentence?
What is periodic sentence?
100
If we allow the children to choose the movie this time, they are going to expect to be able to choose the school they go to or the doctors they visit.
This is an example of?
What is slippery slope?
200
A type of satire that is good natured criticism (tongue in cheek)
What is Horatian?
200
An appeal to emotion, a way of convincing your audience by eliciting and emotional response.
What is pathos?
200
An exaggeration, technique used to prove a point.
What is hyperbole?
200
You must pay before you enter!
Is an example of what type of sentence?
What is a loose sentence?
200
The use of humor, incongruity, reversal and sarcasm are examples of....
What is satire?
300
A type of satire that is bitterly cynical, rude or offensive.
What is Juvenalian?
300
Appeal to logic, a way of persuading relying on reason.
What is logos?
300
Cars are made in Germany.
Is an example of which voice?
What is passive voice?
300
Name two strategies to analyze the credibility of a source.
What are RAVEN and CRAAP?
400
A satire technique in which you imitate the technique of a writer, artist or genre.
What is parody?
400
Appeal to ethics, a means of persuading someone by relying on the character or credibility of the persuader.
What is ethos?
400
Tim had read the book before he saw the film.
Is an example of which type of voice?
What is active voice?
400
Fragment that shows the position in a subject or noun.
What is prepositional phrase?
500
A tool in satire implicates a target by a completely indirect attack.
What is innuendo?
500
Creator of ethos, pathos and logos.
Who is Aristotle?
500
A statement writers assume to be true.
What is premise?
500
Sentence 1
Ellen likes hiking, the rodeo, and to take afternoon naps.
Sentence 2
Ellen likes hiking, attending the rodeo, and taking afternoon naps.
Changing sentence 1 to sentence 2 makes the sentence.
What is parallel structure?
500
Mother: You should stop smoking. It's harmful to your health.
Daughter: Why should I listen to you? You started smoking when you were 16!
This is an example of.....