Liberty and Justice For All
Elements of an Essay
Adjective Alley
Persons, Places, and Things
Potpourri
100
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
What is the Preamble to the Constitution?
100
This is the opening of an essay designed to grab the reader's attention and keep them reading.
What is a "hook"?
100
I describe materials that can be bent, molded, or pulled into strands or wires without breaking.
What is "ductile"?
100
I test your hearing and ability to measure sound intensity and pitch.
What is an audiometrist?
100
Aidan might use me to keep anyone from being able to read his journal who doesn't know the secret key.
What is "encryption"?
200
This root means being the same in quantity, size, value, or degree.
What is "equ-"?
200
This appears at the end of the introduction paragraph, makes a debatable claim, and controls the entire argument of the essay.
What is a "thesis statement"?
200
I describe only the things that are important or stand out.
What is "salient"?
200
Like the shell of a nut, I am the hard outer crust of the Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
200
I am demonstrated when Jamal keeps a cool head under pressure and ignores the other team's heckling, leading his team to victory.
What is "equanimity"?
300
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This is the tense that you use to refer to texts and evidence in an MLA style essay.
What is "present tense"?
300
I describe the property owned by dukes and duchesses.
What is "ducal"?
300
When you peek into my eye, you can see beautiful shifting shapes and colors.
What is a kaleidoscope?
300
This word might describe the kind of person who is gullible and who Megan could easily manipulate for fun.
What is "ductile"?
400
This word means based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair.
What is "just"?
400
This is the passage of analysis that follows the evidence provided to support a claim. It examines the evidence in depth and explains how and why the evidence can be considered relevant to the claim.
What is a "warrant"?
400
I describe things that have been collected, combined and organized in a certain order. (You will have to change my ending to make sure I am an adjective!)
What is "collated"?
400
When you take a stroll in me, you'll see monuments to many famous and prominent citizens, but you might get scared and lost in me at night.
What is a necropolis?
400
I could describe a kind person like Helena, who helps others and would not purposefully try to attack or destroy them.
What is "benevolent"?
500
"And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free..."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This is the 3-letter acronym (3 steps) that must always be completed when including any kind of evidence in an essay--quote, paraphrase, or summary.
What is I.C.E.: Introduce with a signal phrase, Cite with the author and page number, and Explain in a warrant.
500
I describe things that have been blocked or obstructed. (You will have to change my ending to make sure I am an adjective!)
What is "occluded"?
500
I take your words and data and hide them with a secret code so they can't be stolen.
What is encryption?
500
I could describe the kind of understanding that Abi and Lauren have between them, where they can get each other's meaning with a look.
What is "tacit"?
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