It is a joyful, elated tone; starts with the letter "e"
What is exuberant?
100
It is the Greek term for the appeal to logic
What is logos?
100
It is a prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue, and can be a weakness in an argument
What is bias?
100
She wrote "Silent Spring"
Who is Rachel Carson
200
Its the placing of ideas or words close or next to each other
What is juxtaposition?
200
A tone that warns
What is an admonitory tone?
200
What one does when one discredits a counterargument
What is to refute?
200
An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it
What is a satire?
200
She used a fictional narrative to argue her point
Who is Virginia Woolf?
300
It is the term for parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas
What is antithesis?
300
It is the tone used when one instructs, or teaches
What is a didactic tone?
300
It is a form of reasoning - generally associated with deductive reasoning - in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor conclusion
What is a syllogism?
300
It is the demarcation in a balanced sentence
What is a caesura?
300
A character who deliberates; some say he was the prototype for Hamlet
Who is Marcus Brutus?
400
A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun; generally it is bracketed with commas
What is an appositive?
400
It is the tone when a speaker shows off his knowledge, often in an obnoxious way
What is a pedantic tone?
400
A logical fallacy based on misrepresenting an opponent's position so as to more easily refute it
What is a straw man?
400
The noun to which a later pronoun refers
What is an antecedent?
400
She was "too busy sharpening [her] oyster knife"
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
500
A construction in which a verb is used to modify or govern two or more words, usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense, and often in a humorous way
What is zeugma?
500
A tone when one is mournful, or nostalgically reflective about the past
What is an elegiac tone?
500
Thinking you will have bad luck because you broke a mirror is this type of fallacy
What is a false cause?
500
A figure of speech substituting the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated
What is metonomy?
500
This work featured a logical, earnest speaker who refuted a refinement brought by a very worthy person