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Literary Devices
Rhetoric
Grammar
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This is one sentence that is the main idea for your essay. It's what you set out to prove.
What is a claim statement?
100
This is the speed or pace of the speech.
What is rate?
100
"Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of this lit. device.
What is alliteration?
100
Dwyane Wade endorses a special pair of Nike shoes in a commercial.
What is ethos?
100
in general...a person, place, animal, or thing.
What is a common noun?
200
Quotes, anecdotes, and examples are good types of these.
What are hooks and grabbers?
200
This refers to how you pronounce words.
What is articulation?
200
I must have told you a million times what this lit. device is.
What is hyperbole?
200
The Truth campaign airs a commercial of a smoker who lost his hair and half his jaw to cancer and urges kids not to smoke.
What is pathos?
200
These name other nouns and start with a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
300
Students should always write formal essays in this POV.
What is third person?
300
If someone tells you that you have a single, unvaried pitch, then you are this.
What is monotone?
300
You're as smart as a whip if you know this one.
What is a simile?
300
Little Johnny cites a study from American Pediatrics that showed there are few benefits to worksheets for homework.
What is logos?
300
"Lucky finder's of one of the rubber ducks may claim a $100 reward!" Find the error.
What is "finders"?
400
This term is defined as the author's attitude towards a subject or the reader.
What is tone?
400
Introverted people tend to speak this way.
What is slowly and softly?
400
"The willow tree seemed to bow in sadness," is an example of this device.
What is personification?
400
In a Campbell's soup commercial, a boy is seen smiling and warming up with a steamy bowl of soup after coming in from the snow.
What is pathos?
400
The phrase, "a massive, intricate network of coral" contains these types of adjectives.
What are coordinate adjectives?
500
Gary Soto's "The Jacket" was written in this POV.
What is first person?
500
These two things (volume and rate) are how you should speak during a speech.
What is volume slightly louder and rate slightly faster than normal conversation?
500
"The surfer rode a steed of waves," is an example of this device.
What is a metaphor?
500
A U.S. senator stresses the importance of political public service.
What is ethos?
500
A noun phrase or a noun clause that sits next to another noun to rename it or to describe it in another way.
What is an appositive?