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| 5750719386 | Sardonic | disdainfully or bitterly sneering, ironic, or sarcastic | 0 | |
| 5750721221 | Satire | a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule in order to correct | 1 | |
| 5750725784 | Parody | the genre of humor presented through imitations | 2 | |
| 5750727195 | Allegory | symbolic story that serves as a disguised representation for meanings other than those indicated on the surface. The characters are often embodiments of moral qualities and other abstractions. Closely related to the parable, fable, and metaphor, differing from them largely in intricacy and length | 3 | |
| 5750786416 | Allusion | a figure of speech that makes a reference or representation of or to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art | 4 | |
| 5750808517 | Archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies | 5 | |
| 5750811331 | Verbal Irony | the following is an example of what device: Ms. Davis waking the day of her wedding to crashing thunder and pounding rain to utter "It's a great day to get married." | 6 | |
| 5750816461 | Situational Irony | The following is an example of what device: The police station was burglarized. | 7 | |
| 5750818316 | Chiasmus | The following is an example of what device: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." | 8 | |
| 5750912629 | Hasty generalization | fallacy derived from coming to a conclusion with too little evidence | 9 | |
| 5750916524 | False analogy | flaw in reason created by comparing two situations that have very different situation | 10 | |
| 5750920173 | Red herring | a strategy in reasoning to lead the opposition in the wrong direction | 11 | |
| 5751171890 | Ad misericordiam | fallacy that argues with emotional response rather than direct answer: I should be hired because my husband lost his job and I have to support five kids on my own. | 12 | |
| 5751192597 | Dicto simpliciter | fallacy that argues by applying a generality without qualifying: Exercise is good for everyone | 13 | |
| 5751194900 | Jon Krakaur | Lived a life closely related to the young man his book was about, except that the young man in the book died | 14 | |
| 5751199713 | Jonathon Edwards | appealed mostly to emotions in his sermons | 15 | |
| 5751201962 | John Dickinson | was a loyalist during the Revolutionary period | 16 | |
| 5751206838 | John Winthrop | was the first of the Puritans to found Massachusetts Bay Colony | 17 | |
| 5751211152 | John Smith | was known to embellish his stories to make himself look good | 18 | |
| 5751222080 | Patrick Henry | although his speech was never actually transcribed, his speech was so memorable that his biographer was able to reconstruct it by interview attendees of the convention | 19 | |
| 5751230106 | Jonathon Swift | wrote a famous essay that criticized the British landlords for their treatment of the Irish which led to starvation | 20 | |
| 5751232602 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | was considered the Father of Transcendentalism | 21 | |
| 5751240874 | Patrick Henry | which speaker's essay or speech followed the classical rhetorical structure of building ethos or credibility, followed by logos, and concluding with an appeal to emotions | 22 | |
| 5751275532 | Jonathon Edwards | which speaker used much imagery and figurative language to build a sense of fear and guilt in his topic | 23 | |
| 5751285767 | Henry David Thoreau | a transcendentalist who took the idea of non-conformity to the extreme, refusing to pay taxes, and writing Civil Disobedience | 24 | |
| 5751289860 | John Winthrop | which speaker's purpose to migrate to America was supported primarily by the idea that colonizing America and saving the Savages was Man's duty to God | 25 | |
| 5751309955 | Ambrose Bierce | wrote sardonic satire, including The Devil's Dictionary | 26 | |
| 5751329459 | Samuel Clemens(Mark Twain) | satirist who ridiculed the South's racism and religious hypocrisy | 27 | |
| 5751334001 | Chris McCandless | Twentieth Century transcendentalist who died in alone in Alaska | 28 | |
| 5751344399 | Five Men | How many people were originally on the committee to write the Declaration of Independence | 29 | |
| 5751368724 | Salem Witch Trials | Which of the following events led to the Great Awakening | 30 | |
| 5751398839 | Commonwealth | John Smith and John Winthrop wrote during which time period | 31 | |
| 5751400767 | McCarthyism | The Crucible was a play written to ultimately make a rhetorical argument against | 32 | |
| 5751407185 | For the Irish to eat their children | the main claim the narrator in "A Modest Proposal" was making was | 33 | |
| 5751412174 | Show the desperation and starvation happening with the poor people | the author of "A Modest Proposal" ridiculed the conditions of the Irish in order to | 34 | |
| 5751418147 | want to find himself and live independently away from society | Chris McCandless most likely left society and went "into the wild" because of his | 35 | |
| 5751432264 | Definition | the essay "Self-Reliance" was an argument in the structure of | 36 | |
| 5751455291 | Romanticisim | Transcendentalism arose out of | 37 | |
| 5751592527 | "self-reliant"/self knowledge | Transcendentalism is best represented by what phrase | 38 | |
| 5751595773 | Logos | which rhetorical appeal did the Age of Reason rely upon most | 39 | |
| 5751599628 | Ethos | which rhetorical appeal did the colonial times rely on most | 40 | |
| 5751605116 | using ethos, logos and then pathos | Heinrichs claims that the most effective way to structure an argument is by | 41 | |
| 5751607898 | Past focuses on blame while future gives a choice | according to Heinrichs, the tense of an argument(past, present, future) is important because | 42 | |
| 5751608805 | Fitting your words, subject matter to your audience's expectations | Heinrichs describes "decorum" as | 43 | |
| 5751610534 | Seven Deadly Sins of Logic | Fallacies in Heinrichs' book are described as | 44 | |
| 5751614260 | to use it to lighten the mood and defuse tension | Heinrichs' advice on using humor in arguments or rhetoric is | 45 | |
| 5751614261 | Rhetoric | the art of persuasion | 46 | |
| 5751616946 | Rhetorical appeals | Methods of seducing the audience through credibility, logic, and/or emotion | 47 | |
| 5751616947 | RIP words | it, get, things, there is/are, personally, I believe | 48 | |
| 5751621423 | Rhetorical devices | stylistic tools of writing to create the appeals and argument | 49 | |
| 5751621424 | Textual evidence | the most appropriate way to support a claim in a rhetorical analysis essay | 50 | |
| 5751623747 | Transitions | Bridging ideas from one paragraph to the next to build an argument/essay | 51 | |
| 5751627529 | Precis | a four-sentence highly structured paragraph providing essential information for the introduction | 52 | |
| 5751630289 | Conclusion | a summary of the evidence and main ideas of an essay | 53 | |
| 5751634646 | Rhetorical Analysis Essay | answers how and why the a writer develops a claim or argument | 54 |
