Unit 1
Define tenacity
quality of being determined or of holding fast
Define exacerbate
to make more severe; to intensify
Define incumbency
state of currently occupying an office
Define Fervently
in an intense or deeply felt manner
Define indemnity
protection against loss or damage
Which sentence has the most appropriate tone for persuading people to recycle?
If we recycle, we are using natural resources more responsibly for the sake of future generations.
In which excerpt from “How Not to Raise a Bully: The Early Roots of Empathy” does the author use an appeal to emotion to persuade her audience that empathy training should start in early childhood?
Institutionalized infants do not experience being the center of a loving family’s attention; instead, they are cared for by a rotating staff of workers, which is inherently neglectful.
What does bio- mean in the word biodegradable?
Life
You are writing an essay about a novel and want to express that one of the major themes is unrequited love. The paragraph’s first sentence is:
The novel’s theme concerns unrequited love.
What could you add next to provide a context clue to the meaning of unrequited?
Despite his feelings for Laila, Noah knows he needs to respect her dreams of studying abroad in Taiwan.
How can writers vary syntax in their writing?
by including descriptive phrases and clauses
by using a combination of simple and complex sentences
Which type of evidence is not directly stated in a text?
Implicit Evidence
Instead of our brain being like a little computer that orders the body around, the body-brain relation is a two-way street.
What figurative language is used in the sentence?
simile: “brain … like a little computer”
paradox: “instead of our brain”
metaphor: “body-brain relation is a two-way street”
For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.
Which phrases contain figurative language?
eyes of the world and banner of freedom and peace
Which excerpt from President George W. Bush’s “Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks” don't demonstrates antithesis?
I will not yield; I will not rest; I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.
When my aunt taught me to crochet, she told me it requires three things, yarn, a crochet hook, and endless patience.
What is the best way to revise the sentence?
When my aunt taught me to crochet, she told me it requires three things: yarn, a crochet hook, and endless patience.
Desert ecosystems are typically harsh environments for their occupants. Excessive heat and little rainfall make survival difficult. Animals in the North American deserts include tortoises, jackrabbits, and kangaroo rats. Life forms inhabiting the desert must adapt accordingly.
What information from the paragraph is not relevant to the main idea of the paragraph?
Animals in the North American deserts include tortoises, jackrabbits, and kangaroo rats.
Well, it won’t. It hasn’t, and it’s not going to, because that’s wishful thinking, and wishful thinking isn’t a game plan, it’s procrastination, and we can’t procrastinate on something this important.
Why does Kevin Breel use the words procrastination and procrastinate on in the excerpt instead of postponement and postpone?
Procrastination and procrastinate on have more negative connotations and highlight the importance of dealing with depression and not disregarding its existence.
In 1879, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulbs first illuminated a New York street, and the modern era of electric lighting began. Since then, the world has become awash in electric light. Powerful lamps light up streets, yards, parking lots, and billboards. Sports facilities blaze with light that is visible for tens of miles. Business and office building windows glow throughout the night.
The author uses awash to describe the world. Other words that contain a similar connotation are inundated, overflowing, and flooded.
What is the meaning of the word awash as it is used in the excerpt?
completely covered
Year-round schooling should be instituted nationwide.
What is an irrelevant counterclaim?
Quality teachers are important to student success in school.
Correctly describe the function of the conclusion in the chain of legal reasoning?
The conclusion takes a position by explaining whether the rule applies to a set of facts presented in a court case.
So we started looking around for new, innovative teaching methods, but what we found was quite disappointing. We saw that books were being turned into e-books, blackboards were being turned into YouTube videos and lecture hall monologues were being turned into MOOCs—massive online open courses. And if you think about it, all we’re really doing here is taking the same content and the same format, and bringing it out to more students—which is great, don’t get me wrong, that is really great—but the teaching method is still more or less the same, no real innovation there.
In this paragraph, which idea is implied but not directly stated?
There is an inherent lack of originality in the way that content is taught to students
Adolescents are also entering a period in which they are striving for autonomy and want to make their own decisions, including when to go to sleep.
What words in the sentence provide a context clue for the meaning of the prefix auto- as it is used in the word autonomy?
Their own
You are writing an informational essay about climate change and want to include a map showing which areas of the world will be most affected.
Where in your essay is the best place to include this information for maximum impact on your readers?
following a claim, as supporting evidence
My dream is that as the years go on and the world knows more and more of America it will also drink at these fountains of youth and renewal; that it also will turn to America for those moral inspirations which lie at the basis of all freedom; that the world will never fear America unless it feels that it is engaged in some enterprise which is inconsistent with the rights of humanity; and that America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.
What other great people has devoted itself to this exalted ideal? To what other nation in the world can all eyes look for an instant sympathy that thrills the whole body politic when men anywhere are fighting for their rights? I do not know that there will ever be a declaration of independence and of grievances for mankind, but I believe that if any such document is ever drawn it will be drawn in the spirit of the American Declaration of Independence, and that America has lifted high the light which will shine unto all generations and guide the feet of mankind to the goal of justice and liberty and peace.
How can you explain how Wilson supports the theme that American ideals can be a unique force for human rights in the world?
He explains that, if there were a declaration of rights for all of humanity, it would be modeled on the Declaration of Independence because America’s founding ideals are based on the highest level of morality.
Which sentence correctly omits hyphens in a phrase?
The equipment that the IT department ordered was state of the art.