E200 Review

Vocabulary

100

"You're argument is hanging by a thread."

tenuous

200

"I don't care about your rules."

flout

300

"Help me get my feet unstuck from this mud."

extricate

400

"He's so hard-working."

sedulous

500

"Your ideas need more shape and structure."

amorphous

Mechanics

100

To minimize confusion in a sentence, a modifier should be as close as possible to what?

the modifier head

200

The difference between a misplaced and dangling modifier.

MM = modifier head is in the sentence

DM = modifier head is not in the sentence

300

For a fused sentence to exist, a sentence must be comprised of at least what?

Two independent clauses

400

Three ways to fix a comma splice.

1. Add a coordinating conjunction after the comma.

2. Split into two sentences.

3. Change the comma to a semicolon (if the second sentence gives more info/context about the first).

500

List 10 prepositions.

Answers vary.

Writing

100

What should a hook do?

Hint at something unstated.

200

Why is it better to put your assertion further into a body paragraph, rather than at the beginning?

Doing so takes the reader along the path that led you to the idea, rather than surprising them with a debatable assertion.

300

What question should a conclusion answer?

"Who cares?"

400

If you include a quote as evidence, what should immediately follow the quote (other than quotations marks, citation, and punctuation)?

Close textual analysis

500

What verb tense should you always use when analyzing literature?

One of the four present tenses: simple present, present progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive.

Literary & Poetic Devices

100

What PD? 

"Perched upon a bust of Pallas [...]"

allusion

200

What two PDs? "Or does it explode?"

metaphor, rhetorical question

300

What PD? "To ask if there is some mistake."

personification

400

What PD? "

"The torrid flames again return, /

   And thunders roll along the skies."

imagery

500

What PD? "[...] rise up and hear the bells;"

apostrophe

Et cetera

100

What is theme?

An idea that is bigger than the text.

200

One main theme in "Tell-Tale Heart," and how do you know?

Varies.

300

One main theme in "Everyday Use," and how do you know?

Varies.

400

List the six types of Socratic question.

1. Clarification / concepts

2. Implications / consequences

3. Perspectives

4. Assumptions

5. Evidence / reasoning

6. (meta) Question

500

What is telos, and why should you care?

Purpose. Knowing the purpose ("Why?") of any undertaking gives it direction and meaning.