Persuasive Writing
The use of facts and logic to persuade an audience.
What is logos?
The S in BLAST
What is structure?
The literary lens that focuses on roles played by men and women within a text.
The dictionary definition of a word or concept
What is the denotation?
The process of self-examining your worth
What is assaying yourself?
The use of personal credibility to build trust with your audience.
What is ethos?
The A in BLAST
What is Attitude?
The literary lens that focus on the role that wealth, social status, and power play within a text.
What is the Marxist/Social lens?
The additional meanings a word or concept may have beyond the dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
The moment of crisis or challenge you face within the story of your college essay.
What is the pith?
What is a hasty generalization?
A type of figurative language where the author makes references to other stories.
What is allusion?
The reason Gatsby wants to be wealthy
What is to win over Daisy?
The definition strategy that focuses on dividing and classifying different meanings of a word or concept
What is partition?
The moment of realization where you demonstrate how you have grown.
What is the epiphany?
A logical fallacy in which a person assumes that one small change in policy or behavior will eventually lead to an extreme outcome.
What is a slippery slope?
A type of figurative language where the author rhymes two consecutive lines within a poem
What is a couplet?
The lens that one would use to critique how prohibition shaped the plot and characters of the Great Gatsby.
What is the historical lens?
What is principles of operation?
Topics to avoid in writing your college essay
What are relationships, sports injuries, and missions trips?
A logical fallacy in which a person assumes that because two events occurred one after another that the first event must have caused the second event.
What is post hoc, ergo propter hoc?
The reason to use BLAST while reading a text
What is to deepen our understanding of the text?
The reason Gatsby dies at the end of the Great Gatsby?
What is George Wilson shooting him because he thinks Gatsby was driving the car that killed Wilson's wife?
The definition strategy that focuses on defining a word by offering examples of what the word does not mean
What is Negation?
A story outline that you can use as a model for writing your college essay.
What is the hero's journey?