Essay Instructions
What is the essay word count?
What is the hook?
The very first part of a Work Cited entry.
What is the Authors Last Name?
My dog is sick, please help me.
What is Pathos?
How the reader can identiy what happened to the family.
What is the 5 spots of paint surrounded by a charcoal layer?
The amount of rhetorical devices you will focus on in your essay.
What is one (two if for support)?
The time you can slightly summarize the text.
What is the middle of the intro paragraph?
The thing that is organized alphabetically by author last name.
What is the Work Cited page?
According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, comprehensive means to cover everything or all important points.
What is Ethos?
The Author of "There Will Come Soft Rains."
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This pulls apart a text, explains how it works, makes an original claim about it, and supports the claim with specific details.
What is a successful rhetorical analysis?
This part of an essay present an aspect of the construction of the text that conveys the main ideas to the reader.
What is a body paragrah?
When the author’s name and year appear inside parentheses.
What are Parenthetical In-Text Citations?
Reading "There Will Come Soft Rains" in 2026 but thinking about what was going on when it published in 1950.
What is Kairos?
The writer of the poem the short story is named for.
Who is Sara Teasdale?
When the essay is due.
What is September 20th 11:59pm?
A new idea argued in your essay.
What is a thesis?
The thing you will always find in an in-text citation, whether parenthetical or narrative.
What is the page number of the quote?
"Today is September 18th."
What is Logos?
What finally destoryed the house.
What is a fire?
The place you can go for support (and extra credit) on this and all future essays.
What is the FAU UCEW?
This essay element starts by stating your claim- the piece of your argument you are forwarding in this paragraph.
What is the first sentence of your body paragraph?
When the author’s name is part of the sentence, and only the year is in parentheses.
What are Narrative In-Text Citations?
The invention of the nuclear bomb leading to "There Will Come Soft Rains."
What is Exigence?
Where the story takes place.
What is Allendale, California?