Figurative Language
This literary device is an extreme exaggeration used to create humor or emphasize a point.
What is hyperbole?
This appeal is based on the author’s or speaker’s authority and credibility to strengthen their argument.
What is ethos?
This fallacy occurs when it is argued that a minor action will lead to major and often negative consequences, with insufficient evidence to support such a claim.
What is Slippery Slope Fallacy?
This term refers to the process of analyzing a text’s conventions and how they impact its audience, often used across disciplines to understand genre-specific features.
What is genre analysis?
In APA style, this page lists all the sources used in your paper, with entries arranged alphabetically by author and formatted with a hanging indent.
What is the References page?
This essential component of an academic essay clearly presents the main argument or position of the writer and is usually located in the introduction.
What is a Thesis Statement?
A comparison made to explain an idea by connecting it to something the audience already understands.
What is analogy?
This rhetorical appeal is used when a writer relies on facts, data, and logical arguments to convince the audience
What is logos?
This fallacy involves incorrectly attributing a cause-and-effect relationship between two events simply because one follows the other.
This field focuses on the application of knowledge to practical problems, often involving professions like law, business, and agriculture, and includes writing genres such as reports and strategic plans.
What are the Applied Fields?
This form of plagiarism occurs when you mix someone else's sentences with your own, changing only a few words, and failing to acknowledge the source.
What is patchwriting?
This term refers to the additional meaning or nuance that a word or phrase carries beyond its literal definition, impacting the tone and interpretation of a text.
Connotation
This device uses repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive clauses for emphasis.
What is anaphora?
The position or attitude you hold toward your subject, which can influence your tone and style, is known as this.
What is stance?
This fallacy occurs when a complex issue is simplified to just two opposing choices, ignoring other possible options.
What is False Dilemma (Either/Or) Fallacy?
This field of study focuses on human behavior, social structures, and the systems we create to organize our world, including disciplines such as anthropology, economics, and political science.
What are the Social Sciences?
Introduces borrowed information in your text, often including the author's name and sometimes the title.
What is the signal phrase?
This term refers to the art of using language strategically to persuade or influence an audience.
What is rhetoric?
A figure of speech in which a reference is made to a well-known person, place, or event to help convey deeper meaning.
What is allusion?
When crafting a message, understanding what action you want your audience to take relates to this component.
What is purpose?
This fallacy involves misrepresenting an opposing argument by exaggerating, distorting, or oversimplifying it, making it easier to attack.
What is Strawman Fallacy?
This academic area is focused on understanding "the meaning of something and how it reflects on the human experience," encompassing fields such as history, philosophy, and languages and literature. It often involves conventions like thesis-driven writing and MLA citations.
In APA style, when quoting material that is 40 words or longer, you should use this format, which involves indenting the text and omitting quotation marks.
What is a block quote?
This research method involves collecting numerical data and using statistical techniques to analyze it, often contrasted with qualitative methods.
What is qualitative research?
A type of figurative language that replaces the name of an object or concept with something closely related to it.
What is metonymy?
Current events and circumstances that shape how a message is delivered and received are known as this element of the rhetorical situation.
What is context?
This fallacy involves attacking a person's character or background instead of addressing the merits of their argument.
What is Ad Hominem Fallacy?
This broad field focuses on the observation and study of natural phenomena, including disciplines like biology, chemistry, and physics, and emphasizes objectivity and replicability in research.
What are the Natural Sciences?
This citation format in APA style is found in the body of the text and uses the author's name followed by the year of publication, and includes page numbers if directly quoting.
What is a parenthetical citation?
This research method involves collecting data through direct observation or interaction and analyzing patterns in behavior.
What is qualitative research?