5 Written Questions

1. an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant (mobile community" instead of trailer park)
2. a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark ("I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!")
3. having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing
   (Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711), which offers a range of advice about critics and criticism)
4. an artful deviation from the ordinary or principal signification of a word (hyperbole, metaphor, and personification are some examples of tropes)
5. a sentence constructed so that the predicate comes before the subject (ex: In the woods I am walking.)

5 Matching Questions

1. Narraration
2. Thesis
3. Stream of Consciousness
4. Compare/Contrast
5. Anthypophora

1. a a technique characterized by the continuous unedited flow of conscious
   experience through the mind recorded on paper. (Often used in "interior monologue," when the reader is privy to a character or narrator's thoughts.)
2. b is a dominant pattern of writing or speaking which strives to tell a story by presenting events in an orderly, logical sequence. Conventionally utilizes the first or third person perspective. (I have discovered that when reflecting on my childhood, it is not the trips that come to mind, instead there are details from everyday doings;)
3. c Contrast—a pattern of writing or speaking which is characterized by, in its narrowest
   sense, how two or more things are similar (compare) and/or how two or more things are different(contrast).(We both like ice cream but he likes chocolate and I like strawberry)
4. d the primary position taken by a writer or speaker (The weather in Arizona is unpredictable, sometimes its sunny, other times its cloudy)
5. e A figure of reasoning in which one asks and then immediately answers one's own rhetorical questions (or raises and then settles imaginary objections). Reasoning aloud. (And do you think I left him? Yes I did.)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a comment that interrupts the immediate subject, often to quality or explain ()
   1. Rhetorical Pattern
   2. Parenthetical Comment
   3. Didactic statement
   4. Rhetorical devices
2. generally, the arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance, often in parallel structure ("The concerto was applauded at the house of Baron von Schnooty, it was praised highly at court, it was voted best concerto of the year by the Academy, it was considered by Mozart the highlight of his career, and it has become known today as the best concerto in the world.")
   1. imagery
   2. Syntax
   3. Climax
   4. Logos
3. a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced (Give me liberty, or give me death)
   1. Thesis
   2. Ethos
   3. Litotes
   4. Antithesis
4. a pattern of writing or speaking which is characterized by division, which is the process of breaking a whole into parts, and classification, which is the often subsequent process of
   sorting individual items into categories. (dividing music into different genres and classifying them)
   1. Personification
   2. Description
   3. Classification/Divison
   4. Definition
5. format or structure followed by a writer such as comparison/contrast or process
   analysis (definition, description, compare & contrast)
   1. Rhetorical question
   2. Rhetorical Pattern
   3. Personification
   4. Description

5 True/False Questions

1. Syllepsis → a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")

   True        False

2. exemplification → a suggestion an author or speaker makes (implies) without stating it directly. (the author/speaker implies; the reader/audience infers.)

   True        False

3. Diction → the word choices made by a writer (diction can be described as: formal, semi-formal, ornate,
   informal, technical, etc.)

   True        False

4. Jargon → the quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity
   (I felt sad for him when he told me about his childhood)

   True        False

5. Process → a concise, statement that expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance (we live to die)

   True        False