A brief account of some interesting or entertaining and often humorous incident.
What is an anecdote?
100
The core of an argument, a statement of opinion that the writer supports with reasoning and evidence.
What is Claim?
100
An appeal to the reader's imagination and/or emotion
What is pathos?
100
In literature, the perspective from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
100
A serious no-no in writing: a shortened version of the written and spoken forms of a word, syllable, or word group
What is a contraction?
200
A fallacy of argument in which a writer's claim is answered by irrelevant attacks on his or her character
What is Ad Hominem?
200
A fallacy of argument in which a course of action is recommended on the grounds that everyone else is following
What is Bandwagon Appeal?
200
An appeal to the reader's logic and reason.
What is logos?
200
A reason that supports the validity of a claim
What is premise?
200
What would you write in the upper left section of an essay, and give the correct order.
What is:
Name
Teacher
Class
Date
300
An idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated.
What is an Archetype?
300
A form of logic in which a conclusion is reached based on assuming a general principal and then is applied to a specific case.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
300
The process of finding and creating arguments to support a claim.
What is Invention?
300
One of the major divisions of genre, *blank* refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms.
What is Prose?
300
What is Mrs. Crichton's husband's job?
What is a librarian?
400
In Toulmin Argument, offering background information or evidence to support a warrant.
What is backing?
400
A fallacy of argument in which a complicated issue is represented as offering only two possible courses of action, one of which is made to seem vastly preferable to the other.
What is Either-or Choice?
400
To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented.
What is Inference/Infer?
400
An examination of how well the components of an argument work together to persuade or move an audience.
What is Rhetorical Analysis?
400
What should be in the upper right portion of a MLA formatted paper?
What is the writer's name and page number
500
The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.
What is an Allegory
500
A fallacy of argument in which a claim is supported on the grounds that it is the only conclusion acceptable within a given community.
What is dogmatism?
500
A fallacy of argument in which claims, reasons, or warrants fail to connect logically.
What is Non Sequitur?
500
The art of persuasion
What is Rhetoric?
500
Name two colleges that Mrs. Crichton attended
What is
Cabrillo College
UC Santa Cruz
UC Davis
San Jose State