Voice
What are the two voices in writing
Active and Passive Voice
Which SDS is this...
I like baking cookies with butter, they always end up tasting great.
Comma Splice
Fix this...
King recollects his experience and how "After the accident ... getting hit by the Dodge Van" (King 123).
(Not a real Quote)
There shouldn't be a "King" in the citation
What is an Achilles’ Heel
A person’s area of particular vulnerability.
What senses have to be appealed to in order to have a sensory detail
Any of them
Which voice is the following sentence written in?
"The cookies were eaten by the man."
Passive Voice
Which SDS is this...
The cookies are really great and are purely.
Fragment
True or False...
The ratio for CDs to CMs is 2:1
False, it is 1 CD to 2 CMs
What type of illusion is Sacred Cow
language and idiom
Name the five "Plot Points" that make up plot structure
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Which voice is the following sentence written in?
"The dog ran on the beach."
Active Voice
Which SDS is this...
King said you need a schedule.
Use of You
True or False...
A body paragraph should look like:
TS, CD, CM, CM, CD, CM, CM, CS
True
What is Sound and Fury
A loud uproar, like a hype or outcry, that ends up being for something unimportant or meaningless
What Phrase is this...
Voices screeching, lighters clicking and flickering, the crowd urged an encore from the exhausted band.
Absolute Phrase
Make this Passive
"The home was invaded by soldiers."
"The soldiers invaded the home."
Which SDSs are these (3 SDSs)...
I shot an elephant in my uniform, they were very large, very loud, and angry.
Misplaced Modifier, Faulty Parallel Structure, and Pronoun Error
Name five "No-No" Words
a lot of, good, very, really, things, stuff, got. In RTL: would, could, should
What is Reading the Riot Act
to issue a stern warning that if unacceptable behavior does not desist, severe consequences will follow.
What Phrase is this...
The meal, a coarse mixture of gruel and warm grog, was sparse yet filling.
Appositive Phrase
Make this Passive
"Someone ran a marathon today."
Name ALL Seven Deadly Sins
1. Verb Tense Shift
2. Run On
3. Comma Splice
4. Pronoun Error
5. Misplaced Modifier
6. Dangling Modifier
7. Faulty Parallel Structure
8. Fragment
9. Use of You
Set up MLA Format
Student Name
Teacher
Class
Date
Who is a Mrs. Grundy
An attitude of narrow-minded prudishness*
*A prude is a person who is described as being
overly concerned with decorum or propriety or is
excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct,
dress
What does an Infinitive Phrase NEED to have in it.
It has to start with "To"