Vocabulary
Grammar I
MLA Format
Vocabulary II
Misc
100
A type or category of something
What is genre?
100
Missing either a subject, predicate, or both
What is a fragment?
100
Appears in the top right corner of every page.
What is your last name and page number?
100
A piece of writing that describes the main ideas of another piece of writing
What is a summary?
100
The most likely place for a thesis statement to appear in a paragraph
What is the last sentence?
200
The main idea of a paper
What is a thesis?
200
Two or more independent clauses that are joined together without any punctuation
What is a run on sentence?
200
The four things that are required as part of your identification header
What is your name, professor's name, class name, and date?
200
Describing what someone else said, using your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
200
The type of transition that would appear between two opposing ideas
What is a transition of contrast?
300
The use of hard data, facts, stats, or expert opinions in an argument.
What is logos?
300
Two independent clauses that are joined together with a comma
What is a comma splice?
300
The order your citations appear in on the Works Cited page
What is alphabetical?
300
The act of reading your writing and looking for errors in content, organization, grammar, spelling, etc
What is proofreading?
300
A paragraph who's function is to get the audience's attention
What is a grabber or hook?
400
The credibility of an author
What is ethos?
400
The two types of ending punctuation that always go inside quotation marks
What are periods and commas?
400
The first piece of information that appears on a citation
What is the author's last name or the first prominent word of the title (if there is no author)?
400
The way an author indirectly persuades an audience through word choice, omission of facts, or paragraph structure
What is angle of vision?
400
Has the same spelling, different pronunciation, and different meaning
What is a homograph?
500
A deliberate attempt to elicit an emotional response from an audience
What is pathos?
500
The type of punctuation that always appears between an attributive tag and dialogue or quotation
What is a comma?
500
The information that appears in an in-text citation
What is the author's last name (or first prominent word of a title, if there is no author) and a page or paragraph number?
500
The five things that make up the rhetorical situation
What is topic, angle, context, purpose, and readers?
500
Put around a quotation within a quotation
What are single quotation marks?
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