Reading test Flashcards

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What is personification?

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Personification is a figure of speech that gives human characteristics to non-human things.

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Idiom

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word or phrase that means something different from its literal meaning

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3
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Onomatopoeia

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word that sounds like the object that it is describing

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3
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Irony

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The opssite of what you would expect to happen.

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Plot

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The way a story is built like how the story is put together

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Logos

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To use logos in an argument u have to rely on the rationality and logic of the audience. Logos relies on evidence and facts

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Ethos

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Ethos is built on the idea that we believe in people we trust and find convincing.

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Pathos

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an appeal that brings emotion, such as feelings of anger or sadness

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metaphor

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comparison of two unlike things without the word like or as.

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9
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Rhetorical appeal

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techniques to persuade someone

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10
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appeal

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method of arguing

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sonnet

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A sonnet has fourteen lines with 10 syllables in each line.

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