Argumentative 1
This is the method authors use to establish credibility and trustworthiness.
What is ethos?
This strategy uses logic and reason to make a compelling argument.
What is logos?
The emotional appeal used to persuade an audience in an argumentative text.
What is pathos?
This literary device involves an exaggeration used for emphasis or effect.
What is hyperbole?
This literary device involves giving human characteristics to non-human things or abstract ideas.
What is personification?
The section of an argumentative essay where the writer wraps up their argument and reinforces their thesis.
What is the conclusion?
What is the best way to strengthen a claim?
Evidence such as facts or statistics should be used.
A sentence that clearly states the main point or claim of a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
This device is used when the narrator gives a detailed description of a place or character to establish mood or setting.
What is imagery?
This literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds, typically at the end of words or syllables.
What is consonance?
A statement that presents the main argument or claim of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
An opposing viewpoint or argument that challenges the writer's position.
What is a counterargument?
Ideally, how many paragraphs should an ECR essay consist of?
5 paragraphs
This is a narrative in which characters and events symbolize a larger moral, political, or philosophical meaning (think Animal Farm).
What is an allegory?
This occurs when the opposite of what is expected happens, often with a twist.
What is irony?
What are the four reasons an author may write an article?
To persuade, entertain, inform, or explain.
This is a response to a counterargument, aiming to disprove or weaken it.
What is a rebuttal?
These types of questions are used to make the audience think more deeply about the issue.
What are rhetorical questions?
This device involves a direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other.
What is a metaphor?
This is the symbolic use of an object or idea that gains deeper meaning through its connections to the themes of the story.
What is a motif?
What two categories are students graded on according to the ECR rubric?
Development and Organization of Ideas and Conventions.
This is the maximum number of points you can receive for the ECR.
This method is used when answering a Short-Constructed Response prompt.
What is ABC method?
This is a short and often humorous story used to illustrate a point or moral.
What is an anecdote?
This is a phrase or expression that has a meaning different from the literal interpretation.
What is an idiom?