AP English Language and Composition 10.9 Passage Drill

speech and here the pendulum sorry simile allegory mixed metaphor analogy [Answers appear]

reductio ad absurdum alright ah figurative language where would our

middle school love letters be without it here the authors using it for rhetorical [Girl holding love letters]

impact he's comparing the abusive way we treat nature to remodeling alhambra

palace with a steam shovel tapestries and heavy machinery leads don't really

move now assembly is a comparison using like or as..as in watching two and a [Man with eyes wide open]

half men is like physical torture but there's no like or as here and an

allegory is a lengthy comparison that can last an entire story like how alison

wonderland is an allegory for politics or opium abuses and while the authors

comparison is a metaphor he's not mixing them that's like when you say wake up [Mixed metaphor definition appears]

and hear the music or we're in hot water finally reductio ad absurdum is when you [Man in hot tub with radio]

approve an argument false as it would lead to a ridiculous extreme like if we

say yeah the earth cannot be flat otherwise we would find people falling [Man lecturing about flat earth]

off the edge instead what we've got is a comparison designed to highlight how

we're mistreating nature which is an analogy saudi is correct see you're just

as witty and shining as a summer flower in a bed full of the shining light bulbs [A rose appears with light bulbs]

you know what will leave the flowery language to the poets