Rhetorical and Tone Vocabulary Part 3

Which example below is epistrophe?

• A big bully beats a baby boy.
• When everybody talks during the lesson,
  The rebel does’ n say a word.
  When nobody talks during the lesson
  The rebel does’ n say a word.
• Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
• “Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better”

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something

• Pedantic
• Didactic
• Diatribe
• Exhorative

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which example below is an anaphora?

• I saw the boy, I saw the girl, then I saw a brown dog. 
• "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
• The man, wearing a blue suit, walked into the meeting.
•  “O Death, where is thy sting?”

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which example below is both asyndeton and parallelism

• I saw the bird and I saw the cat and I saw the dog.
• I saw the bird, I saw the cat, I saw the dog.
• I saw a bird sing a song, then I saw the cat meowing, and on the corner there was a dog barking.
• A bird was singing, a cat meowed, the dog slobbered.

When a writing describes something by grouping it this is known as:

• Definition
• Classification
• Description
• Process Analysis

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841)
This quote is an example of

• a cumulative sentence
• a periodic sentence
• a run on sentence
•  a aporia sentence

To be abrupt or curt is to be

• terse
• loquacious
• allusive
• garrulous

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

I am overjoyed and incredibly impressed with how your medical evidence was organized and presented."
The above is an example of being

• reticent
• taciturn
• dispassionate
• effusive

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

“I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.”
This is an example of

• Illusion
• Allusion
• Apostrophe
• Colloquialism

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Much will be said about my father the man, the storyteller, the lover of costume parties, a practical joker, the accomplished painter."
This is an example of

• enumeration
• polysyndeton
• epistrophe
• narration

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D