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Sentence Types Grammar Rhetorical Devices I Figurative Language Rhetorical Devices II
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Final Jeopardy Question
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What is a loose sentence?
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• A basic sentence with details added immediately
  at the end of the basic sentence elements

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What is a compound sentence?
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• A sentence that has at least two clauses, each of
  which could exist as a simple sentence if you
  removed the conjunction connecting them.

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What is a simple sentence?
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• a sentence that has a single independent clause

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What is a periodic sentence?
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• a sentence in which additional details are
  placed in one of two positions, either before the
  basic sentence elements or in the middle of them

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What is an antecedent?
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• The noun or pronoun from which another pronoun
  derives its meaning

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What is an appositive?
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• a word or phrase that follows a noun or pronoun
  for emphasis or clarity

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What is a synonym?
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• a word that has sthe same, or nearly the same,
  meaning as another word

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What is a zeugma?
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• occurs when a word is used with two adjacent
  words in the same construction, but only makes
  literal sense with one of them

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What is ethos?
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• the speakers credibility the ethics or
  values of a speaker and a work

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What is antithesis?
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• an opposition or contrast of ideas that is
  often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses

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What is an analogy?
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• a device that asks the reader to think about
  the correspondence or resemblance between two
  things that are essentially different

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What is a syllogism?
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• a form of deductive reasoning in which pieces
  of evidence are used to create a new conclusion

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What is a simile?

• compares one thing with another using the words
  like or as

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What is apostrophe?
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• a figure of speech in which an absent person or
  personified object is addressed by a speaker

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What is a metaphor?
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• a figure of speech in which two unlike things
  are compared directly

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What is metonymy?
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• a figure of speech in which something is
  referred to by using the name of something that
  is associated with it

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What is logos?
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• the use of reason as a controlling principle in
  an argument

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What is a euphemism?
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• A mild or pleasant sounding expression that
  substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or simply
  less pleasnt idea

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What is a paradox?
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• A seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some
  truth

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What is exposition?
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• writing or speech that is organized to explain

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Final Jeopardy Question

• Any artful variation from the typical or expected
  way a word or idea is expressed

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What is a trope?