Unit 1
The vocabulary word means lacking embellishment; plain and simple.
What is austere?
The vocabulary word means in a way that forms the basic nature of something.
What is inherently?
The vocabulary word that means expressed without unnecessary words; brief and compact.
What is succinct?
The vocabulary word that means not returned or repaid in kind.
What is unrequited?
The vocabulary word means having a role of lesser importance; subordinate.
What is subservient?
The reading skill used to support claims and analysis of a text.
What is textual evidence?
This reading skill includes formal, informal, positive, and negative.
What is tone?
The reading skill used when identifying a problem (or problems) and then offering one or more solutions.
What is problem-and-solution structure?
The reading skill used in which an author says the opposite of their actual meaning to emphasize an argument.
What is irony?
The reading skill used to compare two examples: the present case and a similar example.
What is analogical reasoning?
This writing skill used is the arrangement of words and phrases (and organizations) are other elements of style that can be affected by task, purpose, and audience.
What is syntax?
This writing skill is used to examine how broad and complex an author's research question should be.
What is focus and scope?
These writing skills are the parts of a text that highlight or emphasize important content.
What is formatting features?
This writing skill is a word and a phrase that leave some room for the other side of the argument, the side you are not advocating.
What is a qualifier?
This writing skill used is to engage your audiences' attention.
What is an attention grabber?
The reading skill the author uses for an event and supports that view.
What is cause-effect?
The reading skill used is a type of metaphor that gives human characteristics to nonliving items.
What is personification?
When authors emphasize their own credibility to convince the audience of the claim.
What is an appeal to ethos?
When authors juxtapose words or ideas, or place them in relation to each other.
What is antithesis?
The reading skill used is the act of influencing those who make decisions on law or public policy in order to improve society, further equality, or advance the cause of an organization or group of people.
What is public advocacy?
This writing skill is the reason the author creates the text.
What is purpose?
The writing skill that uses someone's exact words in a quotation.
What is direct quotation?
The writing skill used when combining simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
What is sentence variety?
The writing skill used in an argument which is the writer's belief or value that creates an implied connection between the claim and "because" statements.
What is a warrant, also called an assumption?
The writing skill that is the last sentence of your introduction which prepares the audience for the body of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?