Terminology
The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
What is rhetoric?
A sentence unit that contains of a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
When a writer gives a concise overview of a text’s main points in their own words.
What is summary?
He wrote "The Bone Road"
Who is Brandon Schrand?
We used this famous literary detective to outline our rhetorical analysis essays.
Who is Nancy Drew?
Part of a braided essay that could be a line of researched inquiry, a personal narrative, or a string of thought about a specific topic.
What is a thread?
A sentence that consists of two or more
independent clauses that are joined without appropriate punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
A source that has firsthand experience with its subject.
What is a primary source?
Chelsea Biondolillo wrote this braided essay about her relationship with her father.
What is "How to Skin a Bird"?
A line or symbol used for the purpose of breaking up sections of a chapter, article, or other text.
What is a dinkus?
A sentence that is missing a subject, a verb, or contains an incomplete thought.
What is a fragment?
When research findings are verified by other experts in the field.
What is peer-reviewed?
She wrote the essay "Time and Distance Overcome".
Who is Eula Biss?
These are often drawn from key words, images, or phrases from the text.
What are titles?
An rhetorical technique evoking pity or compassion.
What is pathos?
A sentence unit that can stand alone as its own sentence. It contains a subject and a verb.
What is an independent clause?
This must be included whenever research is quoted, paraphrased or summarized in an essay.
What is an in-text citation?
Matthew Komatsu wrote this braided essay reflecting on his experiences of war.
What is "When We Played"?
A narrative technique used to allow the reader to experience the story through actions, senses, and feelings rather than through the author's summary of events.
What is "Show, don't tell"?
Language that uses words in ways that deviate from their literal interpretation to achieve a more complex or powerful effect
What is figurative language?
Also acceptable: Metaphor
A sentence unit that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence because it does not express a complete thought.
What is a dependent clause?
This type of research is concerned with subjective data that can't be numerically measured.
What is qualitative research?
Cathy Park Hong's essay "Bad English" was published in this essay collection.
What is Minor Feelings?
Which New York neighborhood gives its name to the literary and cultural "Renaissance" movement of the 1920s that celebrated African American art, music, and literature?
What is Harlem?