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Which is NOT an example of a rhetorical question?
What time is it?
Are you even listening to me?
Today is so hot, isn't it?
Are you mad?
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An extended metaphor,
uses fictional charactersand events to describe some subject symbolically
Anecdone
Allusion
Analogy
Allegory
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The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
Overstatement
Irony
Understatement
Hyperbole
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Benefits of using Effective Quotations:
to emphasize a point you've made.
to show an author's intention.
to provide an example.
to show how historical figures spoke or thought.
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Which is a periodic sentence?
In spite of heavy snow, the game continued.
The sky is clear and the starts are shining.
I think I'll buy the red car, or I will lease the blue one.
Andrea is intelligent and beautiful.
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Which sentence DOES NOT have parallel structure?
Mary likes hiking, swimming, and to ride a bicycle.
Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to ride a bicycle.
Mary likes hiking, swimming, and bicycling.
Mary likes hiking, swimming, and riding a bicycle.
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Ignoring a person's real position and substituting a misrepresented version of that position.
Red Herring
Red Suckermouth
Straw Man
Straw Woman
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"I felt like a fish out of water" is an example of:
Authorial Intrustion
Analogy
Allusion
Allegory
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Allusion is defined as...
when something plays tricks on your eyes.
a poetic comparison using the words 'like' or 'as.'
a reference to a famous story, person, object, or event.
A story that is very similar to another story
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Thinking about the shared values, interests, or challenges to reference them in your dialogue.
Personification
Deductive Reasoning
Establishing Common Ground
Inductive Reasoning
