Essay Components
The structure of the essay is usually held together by this sentence. The reader is able to understand what the rest of the essay might be about based on it.
What is a thesis statement?
This is reasoning an author might use to activate a reader's emotions. Appeals may include vivid language, emotionally loaded language, and humor.
What is pathos?
When you don't cite your evidence in an essay.
What is plagiarism?
The two researchers who conducted experiments on both Algernon and Charlie.
What is Nancy's least favorite flavor?
Debates or argues a particular claim. It usually has counterclaims and rebuttal.
What is an argumentative essay?
This is reasoning an author might use to evoke a rational response from the audience. Appeals may include facts, data, and quotations.
What is logos?
These words or phrases help the writer with cohesion and coherence in an essay.
If, Moreover, Nevertheless, In fact, etc.
What are transition words and transition phrases?
Someone messing up and doing something dim-witted, just like what Charlie used to do before his operation.
What does it mean to "pull a Charlie Gordon?"
A psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation and complex algorithms.
What is a Rorschach test?
What is the difference between counterclaim and rebuttal?
Counterclaim argues the opposing side (often a popular opinion and a persuasive one) and rebuttal returns to your argument and makes it stronger.
This is reasoning an author might use to build credibility and trustworthiness. Appeals may include the author's background, a sincere attitude, and past publications.
What is ethos?
An editing process between students, either done in pairs or groups to help each other out with written work.
What is peer reviewing?
Not wanting to feel pity from everyone he knows.
Why does Charlie leave New York?
This documentary used all three rhetoric appeals to convince the audience to give up fast food.
What is Super Size Me?
Name 5 things you need in an essay.
Topics sentences, Thesis Statement, Claims, Evidence, and Sources.
“You should definitely get help with your
debt, & I say that as somebody with over
30 years experience of debt counseling.”
What is an example of ethos?
When the opposite of what is expected happens.
What is situational irony?
It limited the social interactions and relationships Charlie has with those around them even further after his operation. It also brought a new sense of fulfillment as well as disappointment to the main character. There are many debates on its positiveness versus negativeness.
What is the role of intelligence in Flowers of Algernon?
Brooklyn, New York
Where was Daniel Keyes born?
The first body paragraph, within each body paragraph, or the last body paragraph.
Where can you put a counterclaim in an essay?
I‘ve not eaten meat for 8 years, and I’m
fit and healthy; you can’t argue that
vegetarianism is always unhealthy.
What is an example of logos?
One is proofreading a piece of writing to correct errors in grammar and other mechanical problems, whereas the other involves going over the writing to check for logic, clarity, flow, and organization.
What is the difference between editing and revising?
Charlie's co-workers who used to ridicule him, but they eventually became his real friends.
Who are Joe Carp and Frank Reilly?
List three themes in Flowers for Algernon.