Throwback: Short Stories
Throwback: Argument
Vocab Words
TOASS
Harrison
200

This is the moral or message from a story.

What is theme?

200

This is the controlling idea of an argument.

What is a claim? (or what is a thesis?)

200
Meaning of the prefix mal-

What is bad?

200

All complete English sentences will have these two things.

What is a subject and a verb?

200

This is the Harrison team name.

Who are the Hoyas?

400

This is where and when a story takes place.

What is the setting?

400

This is when you acknowledge the other side of an argument.

What is the counterclaim?

400

Meaning of the prefix endo-

What is within?

400

Some sentences will have this, which comes in a direct or an indirect type.

What is an object?

400

This is the name of Harrison's principal.

Who is Dr. Milton?

600

This is the author's emotional attitude shown in the story.

What is the tone?

600

This is when you say why the other side of an argument is wrong.

What is the rebuttal (or refutation)?

600

Meaning of the prefix dyna-

What is power/strength?

600

DAILY DOUBLE!!!!

In English, almost all of the time, the main parts of a sentence (verb, object, and subject) will go in this order.

600

This is the university that gives Harrison our team name and mascot.

What is Georgetown University?

800

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

This is the part of the plot where everything comes to a breaking point; the most exciting moment of a story.

800

When you cite evidence, you always put the page number and this in the parentheses.

What is the author's last name?

800

Meaning of the root word phil

What is love?


800

This is the term for a verb that is acting like an adjective.

What is a participal?

800

This is the name of the road that Harrison is located on.

What is Due West Rd.?

1000

This is the type of characterization when the reader has to figure it out for themself.

What is indirect characterization?

1000

This comes at the very end of your paper and says where you got your information from.

What is a Works Cited?

1000

Meaning of the root word feder

What is trust?

1000

This type of word is "whatever the cats can do to the boxes"

What is a preposition?

1000

This is the year Harrison was founded.

What is 1991?

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