The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences
What is anaphora?
100
The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun
What is an antecedent?
100
The minimum number of sources you need to cite in your essay
What is 3?
100
What kinds of evidence can you use in your argument essay? Name at least 4 possible types.
What is personal anecdotes, history, literature, current events, philosophy, etc.
100
Name 10 rhetorical strategies
What are.... diction, syntax, imagery, tone, simile, metaphor, rhetorical question, personification, antithesis, juxtaposition, repetition, etc.
200
Name and define 3 satirical devices
What are irony, hyperbole, parody, understatement, caricature, etc.?
200
A grammatical framing of words which has structural similarity: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
What is parallelism?
200
The minimum number of sources you should cite in each body paragraph
What is 2? (If you don't cite more than one source per paragraph, you're probably not synthesizing the sources.)
200
Can you use hypothetical evidence in your argument essay?
What is NO.
200
Describe the components of an effective intro./thesis for a rhetorical analysis.
1. author's name (first and last)
2. text title
3. purpose of the text
4. two-three specific strategies author uses to achieve purpose
300
Create an example of antithesis
Presentation of contrasting ideas
“I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
300
A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent clauses
What is a loose sentence?
300
Describe 2 things you should annotate for as you read each source
What is... whether the source supports the topic? Refutes it? Qualifies it? What is the source's central argument about the topic at hand?
300
Name 5 texts we've read this year that you could use as evidence in your essay.
300
For each strategy you say the author uses, what's the minimum number of examples you should cite from the text?
What is 2?
400
Describe the difference between...
metonymy and synecdoche AND
asyndeton and polysyndeton.
400
A sentence that presents its central meaning in an independent clause at the end.
What is a periodic sentence?
400
Paraphrase what the following prompt is asking you to do.
Read the following sources (including any introductory information) carefully. Then, in an essay that synthesizes at least three of the sources for support, take a position
that defends, challenges, or qualifies the claim that television has had a positive impact on presidential elections.
Read the sources. Using the sources to support your claim, disagree, agree, or qualify the statement that television has positively impacted presidential elections.
400
Paraphrase the following prompt. What is it asking you to do-- specifically?
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” —Horace
Consider this quotation about adversity from the Roman poet Horace. Then write an essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies Horace’s assertion about the role that adversity (financial or political hardship, danger, misfortune, etc.) plays in developing a person’s character. Support your argument with appropriate evidence from your reading, observation, or experience.
400
The difference between diction versus tone
What is word choice versus attitude
500
Describe each of the 5 rhetorical modes:
Exposition
Argumentation
Persuasive
Description
Narration
500
Write a loose and a periodic sentence
500
Qualify the following claim:
"Television has positively impacted presidential elections."
What is ...
500
Create a thesis statement for this prompt. Remember-- it needs to have 2-3 supporting claims.
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” —Horace
Consider this quotation about adversity from the Roman poet Horace. Then write an essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies Horace’s assertion about the role that adversity (financial or political hardship, danger, misfortune, etc.) plays in developing a person’s character. Support your argument with appropriate evidence from your reading, observation, or experience.
500
Create 2 examples of cacophonous diction and euphonious diction.
Euphonious: hearth, aroma, etc.
Cacophonous: pus, barf, etc.