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DeAngelo Jacobs
English Study Guide
| Question | Multiple Choice Answers |
|---|---|
| What is Logos? | Appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason, cite facts statistics, and literal analogies, can be developed by using advanced, theoretical, or abstract language, citing facts, using historical and by an argument |
| What is Pathos? | |
| Ethos | ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the authors credibility or character. An author would use this to show his audience that he is a credible source and is worth listening to. Greek word for "character." Making yourself sound fair or unbiased |
| Personal attacks(Ad Hominem) | Unfairly attacking the person instead of the entire issue |
| Begging The Question | The opinion to be proved is given as if it were already proved Ex: Global warming does not exist because the earth is not getting warmer |
| False Analogies | Citing a false or remote cause to explained a situation Ex: Using hairspray everyday is like launching a nuclear weapon |
| Over Simplification | Making a complicated issue seem very simple by using terms or suppressing info. ex: You bring up gay marriage, and claim that I'm against it, but isn't it just as important to talk about the issue of homeless veterans? Did you know that I volunteer at a |
| What is Logos? | Appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason, cite facts statistics, and literal analogies, can be developed by using advanced, theoretical, or abstract language, citing facts, using historical and by an argument |
| What is Pathos? | Emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions, can be developed by using meaningful language, emotional tone, emotion evoking examples, stories of emotional events, and implied meanings |
| Ethos | ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the authors credibility or character. An author would use this to show his audience that he is a credible source and is worth listening to. Greek word for "character." Making yourself sound fair or unbiased |
| Personal attacks(Ad Hominem) | Unfairly attacking the person instead of the entire issue |
| Begging The Question | The opinion to be proved is given as if it were already proved Ex: Global warming does not exist because the earth is not getting warmer |
| False Analogies | Citing a false or remote cause to explained a situation Ex: Using hairspray everyday is like launching a nuclear weapon |
| Over Simplification | |
| Red Herring | Uses of irrelevant info. or other techniques to distract from the argument at hand ex: You bring up gay marriage, and claim that I'm against it, but isn't it just as important to talk about the issue of homeless veterans? |
| Straw Man Fallacies | Include Misrepresentations to make an argument look weak. 1st Senator Speaks: The nation is in debt and we should not add to the defense budget. Second Senator: I cannot believe you want to leave the nation defenseless.This is wrong and an unreasonable |
| Bandwagon Arguments | Contains arguments that are only appealing because of current trends and growing popularity Ex1: More people are turning to meditation and mindfulness to help them cape with the stress of modern-day living. Therefore meditation can make us all calmer |
| Bandwagon Arguments | Ex2: The entire school agrees with me that the rule should be changed Ex3: As everyone knows, leaders are born, not made |
| Slanting | Selecting or emphasizing the evidence that supports your claim and suppressing or playing down on other evidence Ex: Last years decrease in profits, proves restricting marketing was a disaster has no evidence on a decrease of restricting marketing |
| Emotional Appeals | Manipulation of the recipients emotion in order to win a argument Ex: As a caring parent, you are concerned about your children future |
| Emotional Appeals | Ex2: There must be objective rights and wrongs in the universe. If not how can you possibly say torturing babies for fun could ever be right? |
| Slippery Slope | This falsely assumes the consequences of actions, ex: If we let your brother stay, the whole family has to stay |
| Hasty Generalization | This is based upon only 1 abnormal situation- Ex: Hitler was a vegetarian, therefore, I don't trust any vegetarians. Hitler was a bad person, but that isn't true for everyone |
| Either or Fallacy | Either or reasoning claims that there only two sides to a question Ex1: Stop going out Friday nights, or you'll fail your classes |
| Post-Hoc Fallacy | Assuming that because no one event happens after another, the first must have caused the second, ex: The Chinese leader addressed the NYSE and the next thing you know Wall Street crashes |
| Non-Sequitor | A fallacy where in someone asserts a conclusion that does not follow the propositions. Ex: All dubliners are from ireland. Ronan is not a dubliner, therefore, he is not irish (no relationship) |
| To complete our Egyptian mummy constumes, Lou Ellen and __________ bought a 12 pack of toilet poem | A. I B. Me C. Myself A |
| It was __________ who ate your leftover slices of pepperoni pizza | A. I B. me C. myself A |
| Grandma asked my brother and ______________ to buy cherry cough drops while we were at the drugstore. | A. I B. Me C. myself B |
| That's not what happened! It was _________ who left the surprise on your desk. | A. I B. Me C. Myself I |
| When I was a child, Grandpa was unhappy with ________ excavating his rose garden in the hopes of finding dinosaur bones. | A. me B. M C. Myself B |
| Don't ask Josephine for her sloppy and ill-prepared homework! It is ____________ who can give you all of the correct answers to Mr. Nguyen's calculus homework. | A. I B. Me C. myself |
| In his sternest voice, Professor Cohen told Matthew and ______ that he wanted to see us after class | A. I B. Me C. Myself B |
| When Richard started eating my french fries, I pulled the plate closer and told him they were all ________ | a. MINE b. MINES A |
| Our boss called both Shane and _________. Hoping that we would work an extra shift that evening. When we saw the number on Caller ID, we decided not to answer | A. I B. Me C. Myself B |
| I admit that ate your last two eggs. Consider it payback for _______ finding an empty cereal box and milk carton this morning | A. I B. Me C. Myself B |
| If you must have anchovies, order your own pie. Loretta and __________ prefer plain cheese pizza. | A. I B. Me C. Myself A |
| It is important to Julie and _____________ that Dad offers a vegetarian alternative to the pork fest that is his current menu for the family reunion public | A. I B. Me C. Myself B |
| Don't drag me into the argument! __________ Choosing one side over the other will just make everyone mad at me | A. I B. Me C. Myself B |
| Although Dr. Grayson shot us several stern looks, Tawana and __________ continued knitting during the boring lecture on the French Revolution | A. I B. Me C. Myself A |
| Defeated, Melody ____________ her head on the desk. Even though she had studied until 3 a.m. she could make no sense of the chemistry problems on the exam before her. | A. Lay B. Laid C. layed B |
| The students who have Mr. Sebacher for World Literature believe that their professor reads Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare all evening. The reality is that Mr. Sebacher ________ on the couch, eats corn chips, and channel surfs until midnight. | a. Lies B. lays C. laid A |
| Theodora will nuzzle a snake, kiss a frog, and let a tarantula crawl up her arm. But if you were _____ a bowl of lima beans on the dining room table, she would run screaming from the house | A. to lie B. to lay C. To have lain B |
| Saxe, Diane's horse, will let you know when she deserves another carrot or apple. She sticks out her tongue so that it _________ outside her mouth like a long, fat, pink worm. | A. lies B. Lays C. will lay A |
| ________ on the kitchen counter, the chocolate chip cookie teased Spencer the Chihuahua, who sat on the Linoleum, whining and drooling. | A. Lies B. Lieing C.Lying C |
| Pumpkin, my oldest cat, loves ______ on my pillow. All night long, she and my head fight for room | A. to lay B. to lie C. to be laying B |
| Removing the dirty sock from her granddaughter's mouth, Jeanne ________Abigail in the crib and chased after Savannah, the family's new kitten, who was using the couch as a scratching post. Babies of any species, Jeanne knew, required constant supervision | A. Lain B. Laid C. Layed C |
| Bill went to the bank interview smelling of wet dog. He had ____________ his one suit on the bed before going into the bathroom to shave. Dripping from the rain, Skipper, his Labrador retriever, decided the jacket made a perfect towel | A. lain B. Laid C. Layed B |
| Rachel__________ the telephone receiver on the table and returned to the sci-fi novel she had left on the couch. The poor solicitor at the other end read five more minutes of spiel before realizing that no one was listening. | A. Lay B. Layed C. laid C |
| While Karen was cleaning green peppers at the sink, Chris_________ a long, fat anchovy onto the pizza, camouflaging it with sliced mushrooms and onions | A, Laid B. Layed C. lay A |
| Which form is lie-lay Please________ down that book and listen to me | Lay |
| He was ______ on his back in the hot sun | Lying |
| Sometimes she ________ in the hammock for hours | Lies |
| The fugitive ______ in the hammock for hours | Laid |
| Sometimes i like to_________ lie down and rest after lunch | Lie |
| I thought that you______ the magazine on that shelf | Laid |
| Maria finished the 100-item geology exam in ten minutes. I envied my friends intelligence and wished to be as smart as ________ | A. She B. Her C. Herself B |
| So that we don't have to risk falling over the standing passengers, ______ hope to find a seat on the bus. | a. Shawn and I B. Shawn and me A |
| Cameron finds his English class especially boring, so ______ have an agreement. If Cameron falls asleep, Jacob has permission to poke his buddy's thigh with a sharp pencil. | A. he and Jacob B. Jacob and him A |
| I've shown you my A+ essay, now let's ______ yours | A. your's B. yours' C. Yours C |
| We thought Dr. Grayson would blow a blood vessel yelling at Mario, who walked into class 45 minutes late. It was _________ who saved us from her exhausting lecture about the French Revolution. | A. He B. Him C. Himself A |
| Don't carry the puppies up to the 2nd floor! let them climb the stairs | A. theirself B .theirselves C. Themself D. Themselves D |
| We doubt that Samuel will attain his dream of becoming a world champion because he keeps knocking ________ unconscious with his yo-yo | A. hisself B. His self C. himself C |
| Just between you and _______, this algebra class is snore city: let's slip out while Mr. Williams is solving an equation with his back turned. | A. I B. Me A |
| Jack and Frank never wash their hands. Since they both attended the potluck, we asked which dishes were_______ | A. theirs B. Their's C. Theirs' C |
| Jeremy fell asleep on the TV room sofa where ________ snoring distracted us from the golf championship. | A. him B. His B |
| Desmond and I prefer the back of the yoga studio; we are not yet good enough to enjoy watching _______ in the floor length mirrors at the front | A. ourself B. our self C. ourselves c |
| Jessica scowls at Mr. Henderson, her arms folded across her chest; ________, however, smile pretend to take notes because we understand that our body language might influence Mr. Henderson's attitude toward our essays | A. Yolanda and I B. me and Yolanda C. Yolanda and myself A |
| When Mrs.Olson found Buster the Labrador retrieve digging up her flowers, she used her shovel to give_______a piece of her mind. | A. he and his owner B. His owner and him A |
| Preston ran the 100-meter dash so fast that the coaches smiled at the stopwatch. I admired my friend's speed but hoped that i was even faster than | A. He B. Him C. Himself B |
| Nobody knows that eating chocolate-broccoli muffins is a good way to provide their bodies with vitamin C. | In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" C |
| The troupe of knife jugglers chocked their audience when a butcher knife accidentally decapitated the head of an old woman's poodle | In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" Its |
| Either the grill crew or(Either or) the manager(singular) must give their (plural) permission for you to return that half-eaten double cheeseburger | In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" his/her |
| Both the computer monitor and(makes it plural) and the refrigerator door have its(singular) shiny surface smeared with dog snot from our curious puppy Oreo. | In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" their |
| The catering committee for the Halloween dance received many compliments for their eyeball stew | In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" their |
| Which member(singular) of your track team makes their (plural) opponents resemble turtles trying to compete with a hare? | In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" his/her |
| The new and improved laundry detergent restored Hector's mud-stained pants to its original condition | In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" their |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" he or she has | |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" his/her | |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" its | |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" she | |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" he/she | |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" c | |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" C | |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" its | |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" his/her | |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" They | |
| In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" They | |
| These two young men will not pass the final exam in Fundamentals of Biology because HE HAS spent the semester flirting with the pretty Josephine instead of listening to Dr. Shuman | In the space provided, fix the bolded error. If the sentence is correct, mark it "C" They |
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