C.E.S.
The name of your assertion and main proofs of an essay.
What is the Partitio?
These are two parts of a problem.
What is the condition/situation and what is the consequence?
The name of the chapter and concept that deals with the principles of deleting meaningless words, deleting redundant words, replacing phrases with a word, and changing negatives to affirmatives.
What is concision?
The name of a type of word derived from a verb or adjective that should imply the action.
"Yet it is imperative for the Christian to achieve renunciation, to practice self-effacement, to distinguish his life from the life of the world."
Who is Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
Latin name for hook placed first thing in an essay.
What is an exordium?
These are two kinds of problems.
What are practical and conceptual?
The name of the chapter and concept that has two rules of thumb: Get to the subject quickly and get to the verb and object quickly.
What is Shape?
The main character should have this job in a sentence.
What is the subject?
"I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary. Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Latin name for the body of an essay.
What is the Confirmatio?
The musical term for the hook.
What is the prelude?
The name of the chapter/principle that deals with coordinated and uncoordinated balance.
What is Elegance?
Aside from keeping verbs close to their subjects, you should keep these close to their verbs as well.
What are objects?
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind..."
Who is Thomas Paine?
The Latin name for the concluding section of an essay.
What is the peroratio?
The musical term for amplification.
What is the coda?
SEntences are this when the last few words of one set up information that appears in the first few words of the next.
What is cohesive?
What is the passive voice?
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
Who is MLK, Jr.?
The section in the conclusion that tells the reader about who the essay is relevant to and why that is so.
What is amplification?
This is the section of the essay where you state the "So What."
What is the introduction?
This names what all the sentences in a piece of writing add up to like a complete puzzle.
What is coherence?
This is when your language refers not to the substance of your ideas but to yourself, your reader, or your writing.
What is metadiscourse?
"In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish;"
Who is George Washington?