Grammar
The punctuation mark that must be used for possession and contractions
What is an apostrophe?
The first part of a persuasive piece that is meant to draw the reader in
What is the hook?
"There are two types of people in the world--those who return their shopping carts and those who shouldn't be allowed to live."
What is a false dilemma?
In writing, when you move to a new idea, you should create a new ___.
What is paragraph?
The protagonist of Things Fall Apart
Who is Okonkwo?
Is, are, am, was, were are all what part of speech?
What is a verb?
When a writer uses statistics and graphs and data and factual information
What is appeal to logos?
"My last two girlfriends have been incredibly self-absorbed and vain. Women really are so self-centered!"
Where the thesis statement of the essay should always be
What is the last sentence of the first paragraph?
The number of points an INB is worth in the gradebook
What is 10?
The subject of a verb must always be either a ___ or a ___ (parts of speech).
What are a noun and a pronoun?
This type of rhetorical appeal would include using humor or stirring up anger in the viewer
What is appeal to pathos?
When one partner asks why the other "never does the dishes," that other partner complains that the first has "never been supportive of anything that he does."
What is a red herring?
The first sentence of any body paragraph, which should state what the paragraph will cover
What is the claim?
What the root word "vita" means
What is life?
A collection of words that has a verb, a subject, and a complete thought
What is an independent clause?
When a writer, in an effort to build credibility, uses an argument that is meant to appeal to a reader's sense of right and wrong
What is appeals to ethos?
"I see all my favorite athletes drinking Gatorade, so it must be the right drink to make me a better athlete, too."
What is ad populum?
The factual information that is used explicitly to support and prove the main point of the paragraph
What is evidence?
Mr. Archer's age
What is 53?
"To + verb" can never be a verb because it is this grammatical construction
What is an infinitive?
The device an author uses to bring up the opposing side's viewpoint in order to refute it
What is a counterargument?
"Black Lives Matter is just as evil as the Ku Klux Klan."
What is moral equivalence?
A body paragraph's commentary is meant to follow the evidence in order to ___ how that evidence proves the claim.
What is explain?
The author of Things Fall Apart
Who is Chinua Achebe?