Working Smarter not Harder
Getting rid of answers that don't make sense or do not relate to the question.
What is process of elimination?
Read the following excerpt and determine what appeal is being used along with the author’s purpose for using it:
"The entire currency of the United States is only $6,000,000,000. That is all of the money that we have got in America today. All the actual money you have got in all of your banks, all that you have got in the Government Treasury, is $6,000,000,000; and if you took all that money and paid it out today you would still owe $266,000,000,000; and if you took all that money and paid again you would still owe $260,000,000,000; and if you took it, my friends, 20 times and paid it you would still owe $150,000,000,000."
What is logos? He uses this appeal to show the large amount of U.S. debt that we can never pay back.
What type of figurative language does the author use from paragraph 17 in "Letter to Birmingham in Jail" ?
What is allusion
"How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?"
What is Rhetorical Question
Read the following question:
"What are the different types of "tension" King describes in paragraph 9? Why is tension important to the nonviolent campaign."
What is the last question that needs to be asked?
What is how
Boxing in unfamiliar words, underlining information and putting stars by repeated words.
What is annotating?
Read the following excerpt and determine what two appeals the author is using and how he uses them?
"Now, my friends, if you were off on an island where there were 100 lunches, you could not let one man eat up the hundred lunches, or take the hundred lunches and not let anybody else eat any of them. If you did, there would not be anything else for the balance of the people to consume."
what is logos and pathos? He uses pathos by saying “my friends” and, by mentioning people with no food. He uses logos by representing a balance between the 100 lunches.
What was King's purpose in writing the "Letter from Birmingham jail"?
What is King's purpose was to negotiate, self-purify, and directly take action.
"Now, there is nothing wrong with an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade, but when the ordinance is used to preserve segregation and to deny citizens the First Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and peaceful protest, then it becomes unjust."
What is Alliteration
What is the author doing when they do this:
"In paragraph 3, what does the word “subservient” mean? "
What is reference
Getting an idea of what your are reading before going to the question
What is scanning through the text?
Read the excerpt below and determine how he uses logos:
Let us turn to a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself. This is difference made legal. On the other hand, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow, and that is willing to follow itself. This sameness made legal.
What is by giving definitions of important words?
What was the "Share Our Society" motto?
What is "Every Man A King"
He includes references to the scripture because debt, poverty, and prosperity are not only economic concerns but moral ones as well
What is Allusion?
When author's use figurative language in their stories or poems they are called...?
What is Literary devices
Pulling out parts of the questions and key words that'll help you get to an answer
What is underlining important information?
Read this exerpt and determine what it is apealing to?
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer critcism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constuctive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable ter
what is exerpt appealing tol hat is logos?
What is one figurative language that "The human seasons"use
what is assonance
"Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work."
What is Consonance
Read the following:
How do the results of the experiment contribute to Jane Elliott’s lesson to her students?
What do you need to look for to answer this question?
What is key words
Taking the question apart
What is unpacking the question?
what is this exerpt appealing to:
E:I refer to the Scriptures, now, my friends, and give you what it says not for the purpose of convincing you of the wisdom of myself, not for the purpose ladies and gentlemen, of convincing you of the fact that I am quoting the Scripture means that I am to be more believed than someone else; but I quote you the Scripture, rather refer you to the Scripture, because whatever you see there you may rely upon will never be disproved so long as you or your children or anyone may live; and you may further depend upon the fact that not one historical fact that the Bible has ever contained has ever yet been disproved by any scientific discovery or by reason of anything that has been disclosed to man through his own individual mind or through the wisdom of the Lord which the Lord has allowed him to have.
what is ethos?
What was one of the outcome's of the Blue-eyed, Brown-eyed exercise?
What is their grades improved, doing mathematical and reading tasks that seemed outside their ability before.
"Everything Hitler did in Germany was "legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighter did in Hungry was "illegal". It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
What is Juxtaposition