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Rhetoric A-E
Rhetoric Wild
Rhetoric E-O
Types of Sentences
Rhetoric Wild II
100
Mr. Smith exhibited a Job-like patience while waiting for testimony to end
What is an allusion?
100
"It is evident from The senator's past that he lacks the moral backbone for the job"
What is Ad Homenim Fallacy?
100
Dessie is a Bowie student; Dessie is smart; therefore, all kids from Bowie must be smart.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
100
I like cheese, the more the better.
What is a simple sentence?
100
An appeal to reason within the argument.
What is logos?
200
"...as she did, with the hot, midday sun burning...with the scarlet token...with the sin-born infant...with a whole people drawn forth..."
What is anaphora?
200
A simile is the same as this; so is a metaphor.
What is an analogy?
200
The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator.
What is ethos?
200
If you climb to the top of the mountain, you meet the holy goatman.
What is a complex sentence?
200
The Martian girl had yellow eyes, which burned with intensity, with passion, with fire.
What is a loose sentence?
300
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."
What is antithesis?
300
Her extremely wavy hair began to grow into a beautiful, round ball on top of her head.
What is euphemism?
300
After a long night of partying, Fred spent the morning repenting at the alter of the porcelain god...
What is euphemism?
300
Because the curling iron is in your room, you have to make sure you turn it off, or you could burn the house down.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
300
When one says, for example, "you are the lemon of my eye" or screw up another common saying...
What is a malapropism?
400
when Robert Kennedy told the Chicago crowds he was a close friend of MLK, what strategy was this?
What is appeal to authority?
400
Tax day is upon us and its imperative we discuss it, but omygosh, let me tell you about what happened to my pet squirrel this morning...
What is digression?
400
This government, of the people, by the people, ans for the people (last word, phrase or clause repeated)
What is an epistrophe?
400
Of all the gin joints in all the world, she had to come into mine.
What is a periodic sentence? Or what is a complex sentence?
400
My silent love grows louder with each passing moment.
What is a paradox?
500
"Let me tell ya a lil' story 'bout a man names Jed; a poor maountaineer barely kept his family fed..."
What is an ancedote?
500
If you don't vote for Mr. Smith, you may die a horrible and smelly death.
What is a false dilemma?
500
A verb turned into a noun by adding "ing"
What is a gerund?
500
After we have had our meeting, let's go drop some water balloons on their heads.
What is a complex sentence?
500
The dragon roared, the princess screamed, and the hero ran.
What is a tricolon?