Writing Wrocks
What's in a name?
Why You're Wrong
Where am I?
Mixed Bag
100
This is what the "A" in ACES stands for.
What is "answer the question?"
100
Information about a character described by the author.
What is direct characterization?
100
A personal story, used to support a claim.
What is an anecdote?
100
The setting of "The Veldt"
What is the nursery?
100
A message that the author is trying to convey in a story.
What is theme?
200
This provides a one-sentence look into my answer to the question.
What is a claim statement.
200
Information about a character gathered through his or her actions, dialogue, etc.
What is indirect characterization?
200
Two ideas that are very different positioned next to each other, usually to reveal a surprising similarity.
What is juxtaposition?
200
These are three aspects of setting
What is the time, the place, the social environment.
200
This is the audience of MLK's Letter.
What is "my dear fellow Clergymen?"
300
This is what every complete paragraph includes.
What is at least two pieces of textual evidence?
300
A good example of this is the narrator from "The Tell Tale Heart."
What is an unreliable narrator?
300
A problem or complaint the writer has with an argument or position.
What is a criticism?
300
This quote describes the setting of "Lamb to the Slaughter"
"The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight-hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her, two tall glasses, soda water, whiskey. Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket."
300
This quote indicates this theme in "The Veldt:" "At dinner, they ate alone, for Wendy and Peter were at a special plastic carnival across town and had televised home to say they'd be late, to go ahead eating. So George Hadley, bemused, sat watching the dining-room table produce warm dishes of food from its mechanical interior."
What is the theme of how technology alienates the parents and the children?
400
An acronym that helps us include all the information we need in a paragraph.
What is ACES? Answer the question, Cite textual evidence, Explain what the text evidence means, Show how it supports my claim
400
She is either an innocent "lamb" or she's a cold-blooded, manipulative killer.
Who is Mary from "Lamb to the Slaughter."
400
Gladwell compares these two "activities" in an attempt to reveal how similar they are, using anecdotes and scientific research.
What is football and dogfighting?
400
This aspect of setting in "One of These Days" symbolizes the conflict between the dentist and the Mayor.
What is the symbol of "the crumbling ceiling and a dusty spider web with spider's eggs and dead insects."
400
The audience knows something that the characters don't.
What is dramatic irony?
500
Claim Statement, textual evidence, explanation, support back to your claim...Textual evidence, explanation, support back to your claim!
What is an example of an ACES paragraph?
500
She's either suffering from pride and greed, or because she cannot accept her social class.
Who is Mathilde from "The Necklace?"
500
A comparison or example of something, used in an argument to further explain and prove your point. Like when MLK Jr. compares segregation to a boil.
What is an analogy?
500
This is how the setting of the "Veldt" influences the mood of the story.
What is the scene of the African veldt, "a wind of odor at the two people in the middle of the baked veldtland. The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air," creates an ominous, disturbing mood.
500
What happens is the opposite of what the audience would expect.
What is situational irony.
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