Short Texts
A short informational text in which the author explains adaptive and maladaptive ways to deal with stress.
What is "Coping Mechanisms"?
Guy Montag's job in Fahrenheit 451.
What is a firefighter?
The first E in the PEE writing strategy.
What is evidence?
A type of punctuation that goes between items in a list.
What is a comma?
To find the similarities between two things.
What is compare?
A short story set in which the main character, Juan, joins a restrictive government agency in order to find a letter he sent before it's too late.
What is "The Censors"?
The result of the first vote in 12 Angry Men.
What is 11 guilty, 1 innocent?
The T in the AREST writing strategy.
What is transition?
A type of punctuation used before listing and quotations.
What is a colon?
The lawyer in the courtroom who works for the victim.
What is the prosecutor?
A short story in which the protagonist falls unconscious in a graveyard and experiences a vivid illusion, leading him to the realization that his wife had been cheating on him.
What is "Was it a Dream?"
Steve's alleged job during the robbery of Nesbitt's store in Monster.
What is a lookout?
The name of the page where you list your sources in an MLA-formated essay.
What is Works Cited?
A type of punctuation that connects two closely related independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
A film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information.
What is a montage?
A dystopian short story in which all characters are forced to be equal by the Handicapper General and her agents.
What is Ithaca?
When citing a quote from a text, these two pieces of information are required inside the parentheses.
What are the author's last name and the page number?
What are brackets?
The Greek custom of extreme hospitality in case a guest is a god or goddess in disguise.
What is xenia?
A short story in which two children learn about their late mother's affair with a man who was not their father.
What is "A Dead Woman's Secret"?
The text Montag becomes the keeper of at the end of Fahrenheit 451.
What is Ecclesiastes?
The three most common strategies for embedding a quote within writing.
What are using a comma, a colon, or chunking?
A type of punctuation that shows a longer quotation has been shortened.
To describe in detail or to outline.
What is delineate?