Freshmen English
What is a thesis?
This is the basic organization of an essay.
What is the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion?
This appeal focuses on persuading the audience using emotion.
What is pathos?
True or false: Providing commentary means to summarize what the textual evidence is about but in your own words.
What is false?
Identify the proper noun(s) in the following sentence:
Sarah repeated the story her dad told her about Grandpa's Medal of Honor.
What are Sarah, Grandpa's, Medal, and Honor?
True or false: Commentary is explaining why the piece of evidence supports the writer's claim.
What is true?
The following sentence is an example of what figurative language:
"...a morning is/ a new sheet of paper/ for you to write on."
What is metaphor?
This fallacies is when one person attacks the character of another rather than attacking the person's argument.
What is ad hominem?
The types of audience that a speaker or writer may have to confront.
What are hostile, friendly, and indifferent?
Identify the verb(s) and verb phrases in the following sentence:
Open your hearts to us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have cheated no one.
What are "Open"; "have wronged"; "have corrupted"; and "have cheated"?
This is the basic structure or organization of a narrative.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
In literature, the technique of giving hints or clues that suggest or prepare for events that occur later in a work.
What is foreshadowing?
This character is described as royalty and majestic. His word is authority. He is also one of the major characters in John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men".
Who is Slim?
This is the protagonist in the book "Just Mercy".
Who is Bryan Stevenson?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
The children ran over the bridge and across the pasture.
What are "over the bridge" and "across the pasture"?
These are the two types of conflicts.
What are internal and external conflict?
What is hyperbole?
This is what Jay Gatsby is looking at as he reaches out with a trembling hand.
What is a green light?
These are the things or ideas Robert Browning described about England in his poem "Home Thoughts, From Abroad".
What are Spring months, flowers, plants, trees, and fields?
Tell me what kind of sentence this is:
Phoenix is the capital of Arizona.
What is a declarative sentence?
A senior in high school can be categorized as lazy, unmotivated, experienced, and a leader. Is this connotation or denotation?
What is connotation?
This is the reason the government banned books in the novel "Fahrenheit 451".
What is government feared books because they brought confusion and discontent?
This what Mr. Burns calls the brainstorming part or coming up with content to say in your speech or your essay.
What is invention?
The name of Henry the V's speech he said in William Shakespeare's play "Henry V".
What is St. Crispin's Day Speech?
Identify the correlative conjunction in the following sentence:
Either Bob or I will take them to the doctor.
What are "Either" and "or"?