The punctuation that can join two main clauses together.
What is a semi-colon?
100
Name the four ingredients of SPAM
What are speaker, purpose, audience, and methods?
100
the definition of synthesis
What is the combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole?
100
Attacking the person, instead of his/her argument
What is Ad Hominem?
200
An association (usually negative or positive) or mood that is attached to some words.
What is connotation?
200
name all of the FANBOYS
What is: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
200
Name one way to "frame" your essay, that is, state an effective way to introduce and conclude your analysis.
What is ask and answer rhetorical questions, history and future of the topic
200
T/F
"you may cite your source like this" (Source A).
What is true
200
a threat of rejection by one's peers (or peer pressure) is substituted for evidence in an "argument."
What is Bandwagon?
300
Convincing the audience that the speaker is reputable and is experienced in the subject.
What is ethos?
300
identify which is the subordinate clause and which is the main clause:
Since you won't have English class for several days, we are reviewing for your AP exam today.
Since you won't have English class for several days (subordinate)
we are reviewing for your AP exam today (main)
300
Term:
'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Hustle & Flow
What is chiasmas?
300
What should be changed about the following citation:
GreenDimes founder Pankaj Shah asserts "We're all about giving consumers choice...." (McDevitt)
What is move the fourth period to the very end?
300
literally translates to "does not follow"
What is Non Sequitur?
400
"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."
(James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
What is apostrophe?
400
cummulative or periodic:
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Self - Reliance"
What is periodic?
400
Yesterday my Aunt Lani bought a new set of wheels.
What is synecdoche?
400
Name 2 ways to structure this argument
What is a concession argument (discussing and refuting the other side) and a strong argument (arguing your side "to the death")
400
from Tom in The Great Gatsby, "...Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."
What is slippery slope?
500
Name the tone:
"A few weeks ago this feeling got so strong I...returned to the lake where we used to go, for a week's fishing and to revisit old haunts."
"Once More to the Lake" - E.B. White
What is elegiac
500
compound, complex, or compound/complex?
When he handed in his homework, he forgot to write an MLA heading on it.
What is complex?
500
"An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish."
-From Joseph Conrad's, 'Heart of Darkness'
What is asyndeton?
500
Three ways to provide "evidence" when writing your argument (3rd essay prompt)
What is examples from literature, from personal life, from the news/media
500
"If this man gets elected, he'll change your welfare benefits. Don't let these Washington beaurocrats tinker with your food stamps!"