Final

Question 1

Ethos

Answer 1

Gives the audience a reason for listening to this person on this subject

Question 2

Logos

Answer 2

Having a clear main idea and using specific details to back it up

Question 3

Pathos

Answer 3

An appeal to audience’s emotions

Question 4

Diction

Answer 4

The speakers choices of words

Question 5

Periodic Sentence

Answer 5

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

EX. When the cafe is too crowded, I work from home.

Question 6

Cumulative Sentence

Answer 6

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on

EX. The garden was blooming, bees buzzing softly, roses unveiling in the sun, fragrance in the air

Question 7

Denotation

Answer 7

The main meaning that aren’t the ideas and feelings people may connect with that word

Ex. The boy was pushy (He was literally pushing people)

It was too hard (The object was literally too firm)

Question 8

Metaphor

Answer 8

Comparing two things without using like or as

Question 9

Similie

Answer 9

Comparing two things using like or as

Question 10

Personification

Answer 10

Giving an inanimate object personified qualities

Question 11

Analogy

Answer 11

Comparison of two things to show their similarities

Ex. Time is money so spend it wisely

Question 12

Allusion

Answer 12

An indirect reference to a person, place, event or another work of literature

Ex. Stop trying to save everyone, you’re not Wonder Woman

Question 13

Paradox

Answer 13

A statement or situation that is seemingly contradictory, but delivers ironic trust

Ex. My weakness is my strength

Question 14

Irony

Answer 14

When a speaker or character says one thing but means something else or what is said is the opposite of what is expected

Ex. The name of India’s biggest dog is “Tiny”

Question 15

Hyperbole

Answer 15

Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or comic effect

Ex. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse

Question 16

Understatement

Answer 16

When something is presented as less important

Question 17

Syntax

Answer 17

The arrangement of words into phrases, clauses and sentences

Question 18

Parallel Structure

Answer 18

Using the same pattern of words two or more times

Ex. Mary likes hiking, swimming and riding a bicycle

Question 19

Antithesis

Answer 19

Opposition of ideas or words in a parallel construction

Ex. To be or to not be
Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing

Question 20

Tone

Answer 20

A speakers attitude toward the subject

Question 21

Claims of Fact…

Answer 21

assert that something is true or not true

Question 22

Claims of Value

Answer 22

Argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable

Question 23

Claims of Policy

Answer 23

Proposing a change

Question 24

Anecdote

Answer 24

Stories about an experience someone’s had that can be considered as first-hand evidence

Question 25

Testimony

Answer 25

First-hand evidence according to the testimony of the eyewitness

Question 26

Qualitative

Answer 26

Evidence supported by reason, tradition, or precedent

Question 27

Quantitative

Answer 27

Evidence that includes things that can be measured, cited, counted or otherwise represented in numbers

Question 28

Inductive Reasoning

Answer 28

Arranging an argument so that it uses specific cases to draw a conclusion

Question 29

Deductive Reasoning

Answer 29

Reaching a conclusion by starting with a general truth and applying it to a specific case Ex. Exercise contributes to better health Yoga is a type of exercise Yoga contributes to better health

Question 30

Exordium

Answer 30

The introductory part of an argument in which a speaker or writer establishes ethos and announces the subject and purpose of the discourse.

Question 31

Narratio

Answer 31

a speaker or writer provides a narrative of what has happened and explains the nature of the case

Question 32

Confirmatio

Answer 32

Confirmation or final proof of something

Question 33

Refutatio

Answer 33

Proving something is wrong

Question 34

Peroratio

Answer 34

The concluding part of a discourse

Question 35

Framing and Integrating Quotations

Answer 35

Supplies your reader with the context of the quotation (Author. Title of source. Title of container, Other contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location)

Question 36

Synthesis

Answer 36

The act of combining elements to form something new

Question 37

Verbal Irony

Answer 37

Is like sarcasm

Question 38

Dramatic Irony

Answer 38

A secret only the audience knows

Question 39

Situational Irony

Answer 39

An event that mocks the circumstances

Question 40

Reversal

Answer 40

To present the opposite of the normal order

Question 41

Parody

Answer 41

To imitate the techniques in order to ridicule the original

Question 42

Incongruity

Answer 42

Presenting things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings

Question 43

Relevance

Answer 43

Evidence that specifically applies to the argument being made

Question 44

Accuracy

Answer 44

When a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an opponent’s viewpoint