Writing Drill 1
Conceptual language (ideas) or concrete language (text evidence, plot points, statistics) - this is what a thesis should include.
What is conceptual language? (Writing Drill Q1)
In argument writing, this means to refute the opposing side or prove it wrong. (Choose one: concur, concede, or rebut)
What is REBUT?
This word in the opening sentence means groundbreaking and influential.
What is SEMINAL (as in a "seminal work")?
When speaking of young people, Ward writes, "they burn to flee...adolescence is one great flight," demonstrating this kind of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
The phrase "He'd been born on the outside; he would die on the outside" demonstrated the rhetorical device epistrophe. This is how best to describe epistrophe.
What is repetition of the ending of consecutive phrases (opposite of anaphora).
This term means presenting both sides of an issue with equal merit or NOT taking a side. You must NOT do this in argumentative writing or thesis statements.
What is equivocating?
(Writing Drill Q2)
The third sentence (beginning "we read") is a ______________ sentence. (cumulative or periodic)
What is cumulative?
In the paragraph about teenagers' belief in the possibilities of life, what does she compare life's moments to?
What "a pearl on an endless string" of an "enchanted necklace"?
Ward makes this rhetorical choice (typical of the close of persuasive texts, calling upon the reader to do something) as she ends her essay: "Read and bear witness to the story's permanence, its robust heart. Read and bear witness to Jay Gatsbt, who burned bright and bold and doomed as his creator. Read."
What is a call to action?
MCQ Strategy: To get a quick sense of a writer's main argument, think "FIRSTS" and "LASTS." In other words, read the _______ and __________ of paragraphs and the text as a whole.
What are beginnings and endings or first lines and last lines?
(Writing Drill Q3
The phrase "shining off in the distance like a great green star" in the third sentence is an ____________ to the famous literary work about which the article is written.
What is an allusion?
This kind of figurative language is present in the phrase "he is wealthy, popular, feared, respected."
What is asyndeton?
This is the exigence for Ward's essay.
Ward was asked to write this essay for the new edition of The Great Gatsby.
"ALSO" as a transition word means that you are ___________ information.
adding, subtracting, or qualifying
What is ADDING?
(Writing Drill 1 Q5)
The sentence "His earnestness is familiar" is this kind of sentence.
periodic, cumulative, telegraphic
What is a telegraphic sentence?
(Very short --- Less than 5 words. This is done for effect.)
Earnest means sincere and determined.
This type of figurative language is present in the phrase "old money and new money engage in raucous revelry together."
metonymy
personification
alliteration
This is why Ward is a credible speaker on the issue of whether to read The Great Gatsby.
Ward is an award-winning author.
In argument writing, this is when you acknowledge the validity of an aspect of the opposing side's perspective.
What is a CONCESSION?
Read the phrase "Poverty made Gatsby ravenously desperate for difference, for possibility." These two rhetorical devices are present
What are alliteration and parallelism?
The figurative language is present in the following: "He can only hear the youth in her voice, and he is deaf to the age in her words."
What is antithesis?
These are the primary purposes of this text (pick one, two, or three of the following): exposition, compare and contrast, process analysis, definition, persuasion
exposition (explain the sigificance of Gatsby)
persuasion (persuade others to read Gatsby)