Have you ever worried about what others think of you? How did it affect your actions or decisions? Share a personal experience and use hypophora at least once in your response.

 Prompt Response:  I have worried about what others have thought of me before but I try not to and I am getting better at doing so. When I do occasionally worry, I tend to overthink whatever I am doing, and perform whatever task worse than I would have done if I wasn't worrying about what other people thought. Last year when I had to present my IMP in AP Seminar in front of the whole class, I was scared that not only my teacher was going to judge me, but that everyone else in my class was going to as well. Before presenting I talked some sense into myself and realized that everyone else was probably just as nervous and the only opinion about my IMP that mattered was college boards. After all, why let a few classmates ruin months of hard work? It simply wasn't worth the stress.

Summary: In class we learned about and did exercises on hyphoras, rhetorical questions, and procatalepsis.

Reflection: It was interesting to learn about these different types of questioning rhetorical devices. The hardest one for me to complete I think was probably the procatalepsis.

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