This character in Of Mice & Men really wanted to tend the rabbits.
Who is LENNIE?
100
A type of short poem that uses a single image, usually of nature or a season, to meditate on a larger theme.
What is a HAIKU?
100
Using logic, such as statistics and clear facts, to help prove a point.
What is LOGOS or APPEAL TO LOGIC?
100
A good source that you find must be __________ and ______________
What is CREDIBLE and RELEVANT?
100
A personal narrative should include some __________ of an event, where a person looks back at what happened and thinks about how it changed/affected them.
What is REFLECTION?
200
She was a 9-year-old black girl living in the Jim Crow South in 1933.
Who is CASSIE from ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY
200
This type of poem memorializes the death of a loved one or an important person.
What is an ELEGY?
200
You need this at the end of a persuasive piece of writing--- it gives your readers something to do.
What is the CALL TO ACTION?
200
You put this at the end of a research paper; it's where you give publishing information about your sources so your readers can find them again.
What is the WORKS CITED PAGE?
200
This genre of fiction usually is set in the past and about actual events.
What is HISTORICAL FICTION?
300
Romeo's buddy, murdered accidentally by Tybalt.
Who is MERCUTIO?
300
A poem with 14 rhymed lines; Shakespeare wrote a lot of 'em!
What is a SONNET?
300
This provides your reader with a sense of the other point of view.
What is the NOD TO THE OPPOSING SIDE?
300
This type of citation shows up within whatever you're writing; it tells your reader what specific information came from where. There are 3 types--- signal phrases, parenthetical, and footnotes.
What are IN-TEXT CITATIONS?
300
When you're reading an article, this is what the writer is saying about the subject.
What is the MAIN IDEA?
400
When a writer hints at a bigger event waiting in the wings....
What is FORESHADOWING?
400
Words like adoring, despairing, calm, and disbelieving could all be used to describe this.
What is TONE?
400
Appealing to your reader's sense of right and wrong; using authoritative and credible sources to help support your point.
What is ETHOS?
400
How you know a site is credible.
It has a .org, .edu, or .gov URL; the site has been updated recently; you can find the author; the site's purpose is purely informative...
400
A contribution Shakespeare has made to the English language.
What is over 1700 new words, creative syntax that excites the brain, lots of plays...
500
The deeper meaning or message of a work of literature; a common one is the importance of family.
What is THEME?
500
A common type of figurative language in a poem, this uses exaggeration to create a visual image.
What is HYPERBOLE?
500
Appealing to your audience's emotions--- trying to make them feel a certain way about a subject.
What is PATHOS?
500
When you don't cite your sources and pass off someone else's work as your own; "stealing" someone else's work & ideas.