5 Written Questions

1. Argument using an inappropriate metaphor. To help understand one thing in an argument we compare it to something else that is not at all relevant.
2. AKA post hoc ergo propter hoc/ false cause. "Every time you turn on the game on television, the team loses. Therefore you're the cause of the losses." SUPERSTITIONS
3. formal term of verb that conveys meaning or carries action "the fair maiden AWAKENED"
4. Repetition of word or phrase at beginning of lines, sentences, etc. "I will fight..., I will fight..."
5. Arguing something is true because its never been proven false. There are no aliens, etc.

5 Matching Questions

1. Loose sentence
2. Oxymoron
3. Predicate Nominative
4. Gerund
5. Ellipsis

1. a three dots indicating words have been left out. The engine revved...
2. b Two words that create a sense of opposition. "bubbly heaviness"
3. c An independent clause followed by all sorts of debris. "She wore yellow ribbon that matched the shingles of the house, which were painted last year, just before he left for the war."
4. d noun or pronoun that uses a linking verb to unit, describe, or rename the noun. "The silly dwarf is a squirrel"
5. e A verb ending in -ing that serves as a noun

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ending of a series of lines, phrases, etc with the same word or words. "This government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth."
   1. Epistrophe
   2. Apostrophe
   3. Irony
   4. Anastrophe
2. Fallacy of argumentation argues that one thing inevitably leads to another. Politicians use it a lot
   1. Poisoning the well
   2. Predicate Nominative
   3. Slippery Slope (domino Theory)
   4. Loose sentence
3. an appeal to emotion
   1. Anaphora
   2. Pathos
   3. Jargon
   4. Logos
4. The reversal of natural order of words in a sentence. "The poisoned apple she ate to her gave cramps of a serious nature."
   1. Apostrophe
   2. Anastrophe
   3. Anaphora
   4. Epistrophe
5. Makes an independent clause into a dependent clause. (because, since, which, if, when, although)
   1. Begging the question
   2. Subordinate Conjunction
   3. Predicate Nominative
   4. Predicate adjective

5 True/False Questions

1. Rhetorical shift → similar to chiasmus. "common sense is not so common", "The demon descended in a crowd toward a village now afraid of the demon"

   True        False

2. Asyndeton → consecutive coordinating conjunctions when they are not needed, "He was overwhelmed, as if by a tsunami, and by the fishes, and by the seaweed, and by the salt spray from the heavens."

   True        False

3. Parallelism → Rhythm of repetition that includes parallel sets of sentences or parallel clauses. "We will fight them in the forests, and fight them in the hills, and in the villages of the dell."

   True        False

4. Epanalesis → Rhythm of repetition that includes parallel sets of sentences or parallel clauses. "We will fight them in the forests, and fight them in the hills, and in the villages of the dell."

   True        False

5. Appositive → Noun phrase that modifies noun next to it. "The dragon, a large creature with glittering scales, bit.."

   True        False