Vocabulary
A Rough Draft of your Essay.
What is an Outline?
A story about Helen Keller growing up with disabilities.
What is The Story of My Life?
Something supporting a claim.
What is evidence?
Language that does not have a literal meaning.
What is Figurative Language?
Statement as if of fact rooted in emotion.
What is an Opinion?
Changing an argument to make it easier to refute.
What is a Straw Man Fallacy?
Speech given at the beginning of Obama's Presidency.
What is Obama's Inaugural Speech?
Why someone or a group of people should choose to do something over a different option.
What is reasons?
Clues stated in a text used as evidence.
What is Context Clues?
A point of view.
What is Perspective?
Attacking a person instead of the argument they are making.
What is an ad hominem fallacy?
An interview about leaving the Olympics due to the errors of the Host Country.
What is A Former Olympian's View?
Something someone states to make a point.
What is Claim?
Words Chosen For Their Emotional Meaning
What is Connotative Language?
What a Writer writes
What is Author's Purpose?
A central idea of a text.
What is a Thesis Statement?
What is Venomous Ray?
Evidence to support a claim.
What is proof?
Words used by specialists or certain fields.
What is Technical Language?
How Someone Views an Idead
What is Interpretation?
An interesting sentence to get readers to continue reading.
What is a hook?
A speech given Great Britain to encourage them to stay strong during WWII.
What is Blood Tears Toil and Sweat?
Understandable reasoning in support of a claim.
What is Sound Reasoning?
How something is stated or it's attitude.
What is Tone?
A form in which someone writes something.
What is Style?