Reading Skill
Language Skill 1
Writing Skills
Language Skill 2
Miscellaneous
100
What does "textual ambiguity" mean?
When the meaning is unclear, is uncertain, or requires interpretation. When the author intended for there to be multiple interpretations.
100
You need to figure out the etymology of the word "miscellaneous." Which resource would be better to find this out: a dictionary, thesaurus, or glossary?
A Dictionary
100
When should you cite a source in your writing?
Whenever you use a quote, paraphrase, or summarize from information that you got somewhere else.
100
You're writing an email to the president of your favorite company. Should your letter be written in a casual, informal, or formal tone?
Formal tone
100
What strategy should you use first when you're figuring out what a prompt is asking?
Deconstructing a prompt.
200
What are the steps to analyzing a complex text?
Review the text, Determine the main ideas, and discover the supporting evidence,
200
Is the following sentence written in a passive or active voice? "The new law was passed by the legislature."
Passive. Rewritten in active voice: The legislature passed the new law.
200
What is the job of a thesis statement?
The thesis statement provides the big picture of the essay for the audience—what the topic is and what general information you will share with your audience about that topic. Remember, a thesis statement for an informational essay does not state an opinion; it provides an initial look at what you will present and explain in depth in the essay.
200
Name three places where you should use domain-specific vocabulary.
formal instruction in specific fields, scientific papers, legal rulings and documents, specific business or high-tech sectors (any three)
200
When you are writing and using quotes to support your writing is it better to use a sentence or a paragraph from the original text to support your answer?
A sentence
300
What are the three things found in the rhetoric triangle?
The message, the writer/speaker (author), and the audience
300
What is a comma splice?
A comma splice is an error in which independent clauses are joined together with only a comma between them.
300
When you are revising for content, what questions should you ask yourself about your thesis statement and main ideas?
Does the thesis need to be refined to communicate the essay’s main ideas more clearly? Is each idea significant? Is each idea different from the others?
300
When is it acceptable to use a hyphen in a sentence?
to add clarity when two or more words group together to modify a noun, such as long-term requirements, in standard spellings of some words or phrases, such as topsy-turvy, in number compounds, such as sixty-six and 57-year-old man
300
What is an allusion?
An allusion in a text is a reference to another text or real-life event. By referring to other texts, events, or people, authors create layers of meaning in their writing. Authors are confident that their readers will understand the reference and will apply both their feelings and knowledge about the reference to the author’s own work.
400
Name the type of figurative language used in the following sentence: The home run ball landed in the next zip code.
Hyperbole
400
What is an affix?
An affix—a prefix or a suffix—is one or more letters added to a base word to form a derivative word.
400
What should a writer do with a counterclaim?
The writer rebuts counterclaims, which means that the writer is able to show, with reasoning and evidence that supports the rebuttal, that the counterclaim is less important than, or not as valuable as, the writer’s claim.
400
When is it acceptable to start a sentence with a conjunction?
Less-formal works like blogs or opinion columns often include sentences that start with conjunctions, and this technique is common in popular fiction, as well as in speeches. Starting a sentence with a conjunction makes writing sounds conversational, and writers aiming for an informal tone often use the technique to sound accessible and friendly. You are less likely to find sentences that start this way in formal works or academic writing.
400
When creating an argument, what is pathos?
An appeal to the reader's emotions
500
What is parallelism?
Parallelism is a rhetorical feature where authors present ideas in sequence using the same phrase or sentence structure.
500
Use context clues to figure out what the word "inherent" means in this paragraph: No sector illustrates the inherent contradictions of plastic more than health care. A 2014 research review published in the Reviews on Environmental Health, “Plastics and Environmental Health: The Road Ahead,” notes that plastic is an ideal material for single-use disposable devices, because they’re “cost-effective, require little energy to produce, and are lightweight and biocompatible.”
You can infer that inherent here refers to something that is basic to the overall nature of plastics. If you look up inherent in a dictionary, you will find the meaning “included in the basic nature of something,” which confirms your inference.
500
What type of organizer should you use to plan an essay?
An outline.
500
"Members of the Apache tribe live on a nearby reservation. / Please make a reservation for dinner." In the two sentences is the word "reservation" a homophone, homograph, or homonym?
Homonym
500
When creating an argument, what is logos?
And appeal to logic
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