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