Romeo & Juliet
This family feuds with the Montagues.
Who is the Capulet family?
The event that symbolizes the Russian Revolution.
What is the rebellion against Mr. Jones?
This author wrote "There Will Come Soft Rains."
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This part of the TBEACR paragraph explains why the evidence supports the claim and connects back to the thesis.
What is the analysis?
When Juliet says, “My only love sprung from my only hate,” Shakespeare uses this paradox to highlight this recurring theme.
What is the conflict between love and hate or the duality of human emotions?
This character provides comic relief and is killed in a duel.
Who is Mercutio?
Napoleon trains the puppies in secret for this political purpose.
What is to create a loyal, violent secret police force (like the KGB)?
The story suggests that even without humans, this will continue.
What is nature?
This rhetorical appeal relies on logic, facts, and reasoning to persuade the audience.
What is logos?
By the end of the novel, the pigs walk on two legs and dine with humans. This moment symbolizes this idea about political revolutions.
What is that revolutions can become corrupt and resemble the very systems they sought to overthrow?
This literary device is used in Romeo’s line: “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
What is a metaphor?
The animals’ inability to remember the original commandments illustrates this theme.
What is the manipulation of truth through propaganda and historical revisionism?
This has happened to the city, leaving it empty.
What is a nuclear disaster or an atomic bomb?
Including and refuting a counterclaim in an essay does this for the writer’s argument.
What is showing multiple perspectives?
The house’s continued routine in the absence of humans emphasizes this theme about technology.
What is the idea that technology continues blindly, even when humanity has destroyed itself?
Juliet uses this figurative speech language to describe Romeo after Tybalt’s death: “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!”
What is an oxymoron?
Boxer’s eventual betrayal and fate serve as a metaphor for this real-world concept.
What is the exploitation of the working class by authoritarian regimes?
The story features no human characters, yet still evokes emotion. This literary technique is used to give the house life and personality.
What is personification?
When a writer anticipates and responds to opposing viewpoints, they’re using this persuasive technique.
What is a rebuttal?
When a writer appeals to academics, doctors, and those with advanced degrees to persuade the reader, they are primarily using this rhetorical appeal.
What is ethos?
This character serves as a dramatic foil to Romeo by mocking love and being skeptical of emotions.
Who is Mercutio?
This event in the novel represents the purges and show trials during Stalin’s reign in the Soviet Union.
What are the public confessions and executions of the animals?
The author of "There Will Come Soft Rains" includes a poem. Who is the author of this poem?
Who is Sara Teasdale?
A strong body paragraph in the TBEACR format must include these two elements to show critical thinking and depth.
What is a rebuttal and a counterclaim?
A writer includes the phrase, “Some argue that school uniforms promote unity, however…” This sentence represents which two parts of the TBEACR structure?
What is the counterclaim and the beginning of the rebuttal?