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| 5686880143 | Analogy | "An amateur playing in a professional game is like an ibex stepping into a lion's den." | 0 | |
| 5686880144 | Argument | "Mr. Davis is the best teacher in the whole wide world, and here's why..." | 1 | |
| 5686880145 | Attitude | Difficult to convey in a short example, but something like "the deplorable state of this school" would convey that the author has a negative _____ towards the school. | 2 | |
| 5686880146 | Audience | When you create a resume, your _____ is potential employers. | 3 | |
| 5686880147 | Compare and contrast | "Hybrid cars have a much smaller carbon footprint than traditional midsize vehicles." | 4 | |
| 5686880148 | Connotation | conscientious = positive _____ fussy = negative _____ | 5 | |
| 5686880149 | Context | If I am delivering a congratulatory speech to awards recipients, the immediate _____ might be the awards presentation ceremony; the broader _____ might be the purpose or significance of the awards themselves. | 6 | |
| 5686880150 | Counterargument | If I want to eliminate the dress code, a _____ might be that this will place a burden on students of a lower socioeconomic status, who must now afford an entire school wardrobe or risk unwanted attention. | 7 | |
| 5686880151 | Deductive reasoning | If all planets orbit a star, and Theta II is a planet, then it must orbit a star. | 8 | |
| 5686880152 | Denotation | The _____ of "chair" is "a place to sit." | 9 | |
| 5686880153 | Diction | You might say "What's up, bruh?" to your friend, but you would probably say "How are you doing today?" to your principal. | 10 | |
| 5686880154 | Ethos | "Given my PhD in the subject and years of experience in the field" is an appeal to _____. | 11 | |
| 5686880155 | Evidence | The information presented meant to persuade the audience of the author's position. | 12 | |
| 5686880156 | Figurative Language | If I were arguing that Anne is a good student, I might reference her straight-A report card and her 1500 SAT score as pieces of _____. | 13 | |
| 5686880157 | Genre | Broader categories include "novel" and "play," while more specific categories would be things like "personal essay" or "haiku." | 14 | |
| 5686880158 | Imagery | "The water was a pearl-studded sea of azure tipped with turquoise." | 15 | |
| 5686880159 | Implication | "Watch your wallet around Paul," suggests that Paul is a thief without coming out and saying "Paul is a thief." | 16 | |
| 5686880160 | Inductive reasoning | All of the planets in this solar system orbit a star, so all planets probably orbit stars. | 17 | |
| 5686880161 | Irony | Monster's Inc. is a corporation run by monsters, their job being to scare children, when in reality they are the ones that are constantly afraid of the children. | 18 | |
| 5686880162 | Juxtaposition | "There they stood together, the beggars and the lords, the princesses and the washerwoman, all crowding into the square." | 19 | |
| 5686880163 | Logos | Citing peer-reviewed scientific studies is an appeal to _____. | 20 | |
| 5686880164 | Occasion | When giving a graduation speech, the reason/moment is graduation. | 21 | |
| 5686880165 | Organization | An outline you write in preparation for drafting an argumentative essay. | 22 | |
| 5686880166 | Pathos | Animal shelters ads with pictures of cute sad animals and dramatic music are using _____. | 23 | |
| 5686880167 | Purpose | If you are trying to convince your mother you should get a dog, your _____ in addressing an essay on the subject to her would be to convince her that you should get a dog. | 24 | |
| 5686880168 | Repetition | "We run, and we run, and we run, like rats on a wheel." | 25 | |
| 5686880169 | Rhetoric | Almost anything ever spoken or written. | 26 | |
| 5686880170 | Rhetorical triangle | The author communicates to the reader via the text; and the reader and text are surrounded by context. | 27 | |
| 5686880171 | Speaker | Similar to the difference between author and narrator in a work of fiction. | 28 | |
| 5686880172 | Style | We might say the Taylor Swift's songwriting approach is straightforward and emotive. | 29 | |
| 5686880173 | Symbolism | "Fire" is commonly used to describe passion and/or anger. | 30 | |
| 5686880174 | Syntax | Word choice, sentence structure, and implied meaning help to form this... | 31 | |
| 5686880175 | Synthesis | A typical research paper involves bringing together sources to make a broader point about the topic. | 32 | |
| 5686880176 | Themes | "Coming of age" means that someone is growing up and becoming who they are meant to be. This has been reflected in a great number of songs, including "Dream On" by Aerosmith and "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. | 33 | |
| 5686880177 | Tone | The phrase "the deplorable state of this school" reveals a negative attitude. | 34 | |
| 5686880178 | Voice | Think of the way that you can recognize a pop singer on the radio without hearing who it is first. | 35 | |
| 5686880179 | Alliteration | "She purchased the pretty purple parka." | 36 | |
| 5686880180 | Allusion | "Like Eve in the Garden of Eden, George was not good at resisting temptation." | 37 | |
| 5686880181 | Anecdote | "When I went to buy my morning coffee, I ran into an old friend. He told me he had won the lottery and he was about to buy a yacht. Two months later I heard he had declared bankruptcy." | 38 | |
| 5686880182 | Euphemism | "She let Bob go," is subtle way of saying "she fired Bob." | 39 | |
| 5686880183 | Hyperbole | "My backpack weighs tons!" | 40 | |
| 5686880184 | Idiom | "This costs an arm and a leg!" is a common saying which means "This is very expensive." | 41 | |
| 5686880185 | Onomatopoeia | "We heard an ominous hiss from the kitchen." | 42 | |
| 5686880186 | Paradox | These phrases include "dark angel," "fresh rot," "blissful hell," etc. | 43 | |
| 5686880187 | Parallelism | "We went to sea; we went to war; we went to bed." | 44 | |
| 5686880188 | Parody | "Scary Movie," "Shaun of the Dead," and "Club Dread" are all examples of this movie (and literary and musical) genre(s). | 45 | |
| 5686880189 | Personification | "The sun was shining happily today." | 46 | |
| 5686880190 | Sarcasm | "Did you come up with that all by yourself?" | 47 | |
| 5686880191 | Satire | Most political cartoons, Swift's "A Modest Proposal," and shows like "The Daily Show" are perfect examples. | 48 | |
| 5686880192 | Understatement | "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." -Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye" | 49 |
