Neoclassicism Test

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Neo

Age of Reason

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Neoclassicism

Art and culture of Ancient Greece

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Ben Franklin wrote

Poor Richard's Almanack

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Thomas Jefferson wrote

Declaration of Independence

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Patrick Henry wrote

Speech in the Virginia Convention

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Renaissance Man

Ben Franklin

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Aphorism

a concise statement of a truth or principle

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Autobiography

An account of a person's life written by that person

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Inference

A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.

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Deism

The religion of the Enlightenment (1700s). Followers believed that God existed and had created the world, but that afterwards He left it to run by its own natural laws. Denied that God communicated to man or in any way influenced his life.

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Thomas Jefferson

Lived simply, though a member of the elite

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Anticipatory Argument

when the speaker/writer anticipates the opposition's argument and offers a counter argument before that argument is voiced.

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Connotative language

The emotional association that a word brings to mind

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Patrick Henry

orator and statesman

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Noah Webster

wrote the first major American dictionary, changed British English spelling to American English spelling

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Parallelism

Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other

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rheorical question

a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

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repetition

Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

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allusion

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

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simile

A comparison using "like" or "as"

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metaphor

A comparison without using like or as

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anecdote

a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

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Aristotelian appeals

ethos, pathos, logos

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ethos

credibility

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pathos

Appeal to emotion

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logos

Appeal to logic

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diction

word choice

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logical fallacies

An error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid

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name-calling

an attack on a person instead of an issue

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bandwagon

tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something because it is popular or everyone is doing it

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red herring

something that draws attention away from the main issue

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testimonial

attempts to persuade the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product or idea

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sweeping generalization

makes an oversimplified statement about a group based on limited information (stereotyping)

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circular argument

This restates the argument rather than actually proving it.

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non sequitur

A statement that does not follow logically from evidence

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Hard work pays off

Belief of Ben Franklin

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Only revolt as a last result

Belief of Thomas Jefferson

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