The Exam
The amount of multiple choice questions there are and the amount of time you have to do them
What is 45 and 1 hour?
The minimum number of sources you need to cite in your essay.
What is 3?
The first thing you should do when you get the rhetorical analysis prompt.
What is rhetorical situation (SPACE)?
The acronym to use for gathering evidence for the argument essay.
What is CHORES?
The second 'A' in SPACECAT refers so (list and explain them)
What is ethos (credibility), pathos (emotion), and logos (logic)?
The amount of time recommended to write each essay.
What is 40 minutes per essay plus 15 total minutes of reading time?
How you should cite each source.
What is (Source A) or (Dalness)? Either way be consistent.
What is identify a message and annotate for it?
This can help you earn the sophistication point on an argumentative prompt.
What is introducing and rebutting a counterclaim?
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields," is an example of:
What is parallelism?
The order in which the essays appear.
What is synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and then argument?
The minimum number of sources you should cite in each body paragraph.
What is two?
The definition of exigence and how it differs from purpose.
What is author's motivation and some variation of how purpose is the reason for the content of the piece while exigence is the reason for writing it in the first place?
Each of the categories in the acronym CHORES.
What is Current Events, History, Outside Knowledge, Reading, Entertainment, Sports/Science?
The purpose in a text of one of the basic figurative language terms (Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Imagery, Hyperbole, Repetition, Symbolism).
Answers will vary.
How many points each of the multiple choice questions are worth.
What is 1?
The number of sources you'll have available to you on the synthesis essay.
What your reasoning should consist of in a rhetorical analysis.
What is a why the purpose of the device and the reason for using it based on the rhetorical situation?
Elements of an argumentative thesis statement (there are 3).
What is Topic, claim, reasons?
The definition and an example of antithesis.
A type of juxtaposition that uses opposite ideas to emphasize contrast. Ex: light and dark or peace and war.
The point range to get a score of 5.
What is 79-100?
Describe 2 things you should annotate for as you read each source.
What is their stance and SPACE?
Elements of a rhetorical analysis thesis. (There are 5-6)
What is speaker, tone, genre, topic, message, rhetorical devices?
What your reasoning should consist of in an argumentative essay.
What is explanation of how the evidence proves the argument and how the argument proves your claim?
Name the logical fallacy: If you don’t expose your child to germs, he’ll never get sick and therefore never build up his immune system to fight illness. He will grow up to be a sickly adult.
What is slippery slope?