Comparing two unlike objects using the words "like" or "as"
What is simile?
100
Author of "Why We Crave Horror Movies?"
What is Stephen King?
100
One out of six purposes of a compare/contrast essay.
What is Clarify and explain
Inform
Explain something unfamiliar with something familiar
Explain squash by comparing it to tennis
Point out superiority of one thing by contrasting it with another
Showing superiority of a product, restaurant, etc.
200
Reason Connie was mocked and ostracized by her school community.
What is she is an albino?
200
The style of organization usually seen in narrative essays.
What is chronological?
200
The animal population that was tripled on Wikipedia due to Colbert's challenge to America.
What are elephants?
200
The two characters that starred in the video we watched on the logical fallacy, "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc," and why it was a logical fallacy.
What is Burt and Ernie? Fallacy: keeping a banana in ear will keep alligators away.
200
The organizational structure demonstrated below:
Organization:
Weather
A. Buffalo
B. San Diego
Attractions
A. Buffalo
B. San Diego
What is point-by-point?
300
The language David Sedaris was attempting to learn in "Me Talk Pretty One Day"
What is French?
300
List two of the three phases of the writing process?
What is brainstorming, drafting, and revision?
300
What are three dead verbs?
What is is, are, was, were, have, had, began, etc. Any three from the dead verbs handout will suffice.
300
Any of the examples we talked about in class regarding cause/effect (not logical fallacies).
What is I got in A/F in Composition, decreased cd sales, popularity of reality shows among teenage girls, popularity of video games among college males, effect of technology on family relationships, Jane impresses a client and gets a promotion, man gets grandbaby with a dog collar.
300
Organization:
San Diego
A. Weather
B. Traffic
C. Attractions
Buffalo
A. Weather
B. Traffic
C. Attractions.
What is subject-by-subject?
400
3 details about The Barrio.
What is Mrs. Metcalf's discretion?
400
Write the following sentence with the correct MLA citation. The first group to bring me the correct citation will receive the points.
“Story is the counterforce to social disorder.” (Jonathan Gottschall Chapter 7 pg. 138)
"Story is the counterforce to social disorder" (Gottschall 138).
400
The three characteristics of a good thesis.
What are clear, specific, and arguable?
400
Tone for "Why We Speak Spanish in Public" and reasons.
What is angry, bitter, etc. with logical explanation.
400
The two songs we compared/contrasted as examples for your compare/contrast essay. Artists optional.
What is It's a Beautiful Day--Michael Buble and I Will Survive--Gloria Gaylor.
500
Of my Friend _________ and My Achilles Heel.
What is Hector?
500
List three of the five features of good narration.
What is context, details, organization, point of view, purpose/thesis/so what?
500
Three effective beginnings
What is anecdote, analogy/comparison, dialogue/quotation, facts and stats, irony/humor, short generalization, startling claim, strong proposition, and rhetorical questions.
500
Name for causal argument where one event causes another, which causes the next, which causes the next?
What is causal chain?
500
One reading that demonstrated compare/contrast.
What is Two Ways of Seeing a River, Two Ways to Belong in America, My Childhood on the Continent of Africa