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Vocabulary
Rhetorical Fallacies
Fact or Opinion?
Sentence types
Potporri
100
Define cataract as used in this sentence: Of the 2 cataracts at Niagra Falls, the Horseshoe falls on the Canadian side is the largest.
What are waterfalls?
100
Bluebell: We eat all we can, and we sell the rest.
What is exaggeration?
100
Dogs are better than cats.
What is opinion?
100
Sadie the beagle will do a happy dance for carrots, June bugs, chicken food, and eggs.
What is simple?
100
Find the adverb: Jimmy walked into Cabella's excitedly, like a kid going into a candy store.
What is excitedly?
200
Define hydroelectric as used in this sentence: New York and Canada use a hydroelectric generator to help provide electrical power to them today.
What is water powered?
200
Grandmothers love to bake cookies.
What is stereotyping?
200
Texas A&M University has more students than UT at Austin.
What is a fact?
200
Larry moved to Florida because he wanted to live among the manatees.
What is complex?
200
Identify the prepositional phrase: I spend Valentine's Day watching old movies with my cat.
What is "with my cat"?
300
Define curtain as used in this sentence: Something concealed and covered the opening of the cave; it was a curtain of water!
What is to conceal or cover?
300
Rick Perry would make a bad president because he once shot a coyote.
What is ad hominem?
300
Toyotas are superior to American brands.
What is opinion?
300
I cried and cried, for all the cake was gone.
What is compound?
300
What sense is the author appealing to in this passage: "We woke up sluggish, tired from last night's ruckus. Our new puppy restlessly wandered around the house, his nails clicking over the wood floor like tap-dancing beetles and his incessant, sharp-pitched whine filling all the corners of the house."
What is sound?
400
Define bona fide as used in this sentence: The Grand Canyon is a bona fide natural wonder in Arizona.
What is real or genuine?
400
Walmart has the lowest price on a new TV. But you should pay more to buy it somewhere else because Walmart is cheap and tacky.
What is ad hominem?
400
No one in Texas cares about the Super Bowl when teams like the Seahawks and Patriots play.
What is an opinion?
400
Brian loves to play music, so he saved up his money for a Les Paul guitar.
What is compound?
400
Find the adverb: We are never getting back together.
What is never?
500
Define the Greek root word -vis-:
What is "to be seen"?
500
Veterans serve their country. Serving your country is a good thing. Therefore, all veterans are good people.
What is categorical claim?
500
The Nutcracker Ballet is based on the story "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice" written by E.T.A. Hoffman.
What is fact?
500
Although I have a degree in journalism and worked in the field for years, I am now an English teacher.
What is complex?
500
Why might the author have written this poem? I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
What is to entertain, but more specifically to taunt the person whose food got eaten?