a(n) ____ is something you say, show, or do to get your audience to focus on you and on the topic and goal of your speech. a. attention getter b. preview audience c. relevance statement d. credibility statement

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d. Credibility statement


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What does annually mean

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Events that happen every year, like a birthday.
Every year or once every year

Can tally be used as an adverb?

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Tally cannot be used as an adverb because it is a noun and a verb.

Which sentence uses a demonstrative adjective to point out something far? A.
I bought this cake at the bake sale.

B.
Use these packages of beans for the soup.

C.
It will take more than an hour to walk to that canyon.

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I think the answer is B

Which of these sentences has an error in pronoun-antecedent agreement? A. Each of the assistant principals takes turns working at the games on Friday nights. B. Everyone enjoyed having shorter classes on the day of the pep rally. C. Sarah and Robert treated themselves to frozen yogurt after a hard week of school. D. Nobody forgets the first time they make the winning play in a game.

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Sentence D has an error in pronoun-antecedent agreement.

A pronoun is a word that is used as a substitution for a noun and the antecedent is the word for which the pronoun stands. Pronoun antecedent agreement means that the pronoun must agree with the antecedent in number.

In sentence D, "nobody" is singular while the pronoun "they" is plural. In this sentence, the pronoun "they" refers back to "nobody" as its antecedent. but "nobody" is a singular indefinite pronoun. Thus, there is an error in pronoun-antecedent agreement.

D. Nobody forgets the first time they make the winning play in a game.
Has an error in pronoun-antecedent agreement.

Nobody, an indefinite pronoun, is always singular. They is in plural form. It does not agree with the singular nobody in the sentence based on the pronoun-antecedent agreement. 

Which sentence correctly uses parallel structure? 1.The doctor recommends resting for a week and that you eat low-fat food at regular intervals.

2.I want to find a job that will provide an adequate context for my skill, and to earn enough money for my family.

3.Apart from dabbling in playwriting, he has tried creating a great epic novel and composing a long, tragic epic.

4.After Ruth receives her monthly paycheck, the money goes into her savings account, equity funds, and toward her credit card bills.

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In parallel structure, the phrases have the same type of pattern. In sentence 3, each of the action verbs used ends in /ing/. While the other sentences do have phrases separated by commas, none contain the same format throughout, as sentence 3 does.

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Apart from dabbling in playwriting, he has tried creating a great epic novel and composing a long, tragic epic.

this is the correct answer!

What type of analogy compares the components of a concept or thing?A. object to function
B. degrees of intensity
C. part to whole
D. attribute

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A. object to function

Figure of Speech (or stylistic device or rhetorical device) is using of different styles to complement an idea, feeling or meaning. These speeches give importance, newness of expression, or clearness. The following are the figures of speeches: 

Synecdoche
, Anastrophe, Anaphora, Antonomasia, Personification, Simile, Analogy, Metaphor, AlliterationEuphemism, Assonance,Idiom, Funny Metaphors, Jargon, Double Negative, Anadiplosis,Appositive, EnthymemeParallelism,  Adjunction, Antithesis,Apostrophe, Climax, Metonymy, Oxymoron, Litotes, Paralipsis,Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Imagery, Symbol, Pun, Allegory,Tautology, RhetoricZeugma, AnticlimaxConsonance, Irony,Polysyndeton, Rhetorical Question, Asyndeton, Parenthesis,Antimetabole, Epistrophe, Understatement, Chiasmus, Epithet andFalse Analogy.   

A metaphor is a subtle comparison of one word, relating to another.