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What is an anecdote?
The literal definition of a word is
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The literal definition of a word is
Denotation
Connotation
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What is an anecdote?
A short story
A cure for poison
The removal of contractions in successive clauses
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What is annotation?
Conversation with the text
Circling things
Reading
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What is ethos?
Appeal to ethics
appeal to reason
Appeal to emotion
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Arrangement is
Is the placement of ideas for an effect
The way an author brainstorms
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What is pathos?
Appeal to reason
Appeal to ethics or character
Appeal to emotion
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Logos is
An appeal to logic or reason
An appeal to character or ethics
An appeal to emotions
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What is the arrangement of sentences called ? Say
Syntax
Arrangement
Diction
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A metaphor is
A comparison using like or as
A comparison stating one thing is he other
A comparison not using like or as
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A rhetorical device that names something that is closely related to it is called?
Metonymy
Chiasmus
Anaphora
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What is Polysyndeton?
Repetition of conjunctions in close succession
The omission of conjunctions for effect
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A thesis
Is the main idea of nonfiction
The question in the scientific process
The noun in the thesis statement
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The use of slang in writing is called
Jargon
Colloquialism
Improper
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What is jargon?
Main idea
Vocabulary of a group
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Extreme exaggeration is called
Parenthesis
Hyperbole
Symbolism
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A sentence fragment used on purpose is called a
Rhetorical fragment
Bad idea
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Antithesis is
The proving wrong of a thesis
The direct opposition of ideas
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A question that is not meant to be answered is called
There isn't a question like that
Rhetorical question
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Scholarly, academic or bookish language is called
Verbose
Pedantic
Unnecessary
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The vantage point in which a story is told is called
Point of view
First person
Third person omniscient
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An allusion is
Repetition of beginnings of words in order
A reference to a well known piece of literature or person
Something that is seen but not there
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Two opposing words used together is called a
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Pun
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What is a litote?
A type of pun
An understatement
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What is context?
What is going on and around the time the piece is written
Ideas to help understand words
Setting in nonfiction
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Repetition is
Only in poetry
The same word, phrase, clause, or sentence more than once
Not in AP
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The repetition of words at the END of successive clauses is called
Polysyndeton
Epistrophe
Anaphora
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The term rhetoric means
The means of analysis
The means of persuasion
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Parallelism
A math term
Rhetorical structural similarity in writing
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What is ambiguity?
Multiple meanings of a word, phrase, sentence or passage
Understatement
Exaggeration
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The associative meaning of the word is called
Connotation
Definition
Denotation
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Tone is
The mood of a piece
The attitude an author/ writer has about the subject
The atmosphere of a piece of writing
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Paradox is
Appears to be contradictory but upon a closer look is true
A type of oxymoron
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What is the definition of theme?
The key message or generalization about life
Moral of the story
Life lesson
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Something that represents something else is called a
Symbol
Metaphor
Picture
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What is an understatement ?
Support under a reason
Minimalizing of fact
A statement repeated
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What is the word, phrase or clause that is referred to by the pronoun called ?
A bunch of jumbo gumbo
Antecedent
Noun
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What is a periodic sentence?
Presents it's main idea at the end of the sentence
Has periods that don't seem to work
Presents the main idea at the beginning of the sentence
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What is a premise?
The main argument
The counter argument
A type of sentence
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Diction is
The way sentences are arranged or put together
Word choice
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What is anaphora?
Omission of punctuation
Repetition of articles
Repetition at the beginning of successive clauses
