Key Terms
According to Lynda Barry, this is something that is specific, spontaneous, and somehow alive, and is at the core of all stories.
What is an image?
This is the title of Lynda Barry's book that we used for class.
What is What It Is?
This is the main point of an essay, and can often be found in things that are not essays.
What is a thesis?
This team is the 2021 SEC East Champion.
Who are the Georgie Bulldogs?
This term refers to putting something in your own words and condensing it.
What is summary?
This is the title of the photography blog started by Brandon Stanton in 2010.
What is Humans of New York?
This term refers to the attention-getter that should be present at the very beginning of your essay.
What is a hook?
Last month, this actor discharged a firearm on a New Mexico movie set, killing the film's cinematographer.
Who is Alec Baldwin?
This is the name of the search engine that the ABAC library has for finding scholarly articles.
What is Galileo?
This is the movie we watched a clip from that involves a heist gone wrong and something gold in a suitcase.
What is Pulp Fiction?
Your research paper should cite all sources in this format.
What is MLA?
Last month, this alleged murderer of Gabby Petito was found dead in a Florida nature preserve.
Who is Brian Laundrie?
This term refers to breaking something down in order to understand it better (i.e., "unpacking").
What is analysis?
This is one of the three stand-up comedians we watched when we wrote down the main message of each stand-up routine.
Who are Jim Gaffigan, Trevor Noah, or John Mulaney?
A structure that involves a subject and a verb, and can thus stand on its own as a sentence, is this type of clause.
What is an independent clause?
In September this Georgia-born artist, whose real name is Montero Hill, released his latest bestselling single, "That's What I Want."
Who is Lil Nas X?
This term refers to the element of a story that involves some sort of conflict, or something to win or lose.
What are stakes?
This is the name of the 1915 poetry anthology that told the stories of deceased citizens of a fictional town.
What is The Spoon River Anthology?
This part of speech is the first thing to cut when trimming a written piece for length.
What is an adverb?
What is South Africa?