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Question

Logos

Answer 1

Appeal to logic: You should wear sunscreen every day because it helps prevent premature aging

Answer 2

Appeal to authority: Nine out of ten doctors agree that sunscreen is important

Answer 3

appeal to Emotion: She didn’t use sunscreen and her young body was made old by the ravages of cancer

Answer 4

Giving human attributes to a non-human The sun smiled down on the children

Answer 5

Figure of speech that compares two unrelated objects. He is a lion in battle

Answer 6

Introductory section that gives pertinent background details. In Little Red Riding Hood – the initial description of Red and what she is doing (going to her Grandma’s house)

Answer 7

The conflict is introduced and builds toward the climax. Meeting the wolf and the wolf disguising himself as Grandma

Answer 8

The moment of greatest tension or conflict “The better to eat you with my dear!” The wolf attacks Red.

Answer 9

Events following the climax The woodsman comes and saves Red and her grandmother

Answer 10

Conclusion to the story where loose ends are tied up. Little Red Riding Hood learns a valuable lesson about talking to strangers.

Answer 11

something happens that is the opposite of what the character (or reader) expects to happen. A man pretending to be named Earnest finds out he actually is named Earnest

Answer 12

The audience knows something that the characters do not. Gwendolen and Cecily proudly argue about who’s engaged to Ernest, but the audience knows the entire engagement is based on a fake name and that they are not engaged to the same man

Answer 13

Dialogue that says the opposite of what the speaker means. During a hurricane, you say “What nice weather we are having!

Answer 14

Describing an object with an attribute instead of the word that is meant. The suits came down from corporate for an inspection. (management usually wears suits, so the suits represent them)

Answer 15

Figure of speech where a part of something is substituted for the whole. John got a new set of wheels. (Part of the car -wheels - represents the whole car)

Answer 16

An indirect mention or passing reference Our coach has the Midas touch! (refers to the legend of King Midas who wished that everything he touched would turn to gold.)

Answer 17

A rhetorical device where similar sentence structure creating a sense of rhythm or emphasis. What you see is what you get. (two clauses with the same grammatical stricture)

Answer 18

The repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills."