Unit 1 review
Extremely difficult to achieve
What is arduous?
To make more severe; to intensify
What is exacerbate?
State of currently occupying an office.
What is incumbency?
Frankness or honesty.
What is candor?
Protection against loss or damage.
What is indemnity?
An overarching message or truth that is specific to a text.
What is a central idea?
Another name for the art of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
Sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and sections, can help a reader to comprehend a text's main idea or claim.
What are structural elements?
The central message or universal truth conveyed by a text.
What is a theme?
Argument is a logical approach to persuasion and rhetoric. It uses logos, rather then pathos and ethos.
What is elements of an argument?
As a reader and writer you need to be aware of these three factors.
What is task, purpose, and audience?
Synthesize, interpret, and present information from a variety of credible sources.
What is the purpose of a researched essay?
Appear at the start of each body paragraph, tell readers what the paragraph will be about.
What is a topic sentence?
A type of writing that emphasizes logic, specifically claims, reasons, evidence, and counterclaims.
What is argument?
It does not contain a topic sentence that states the main idea, nor does it have sentences that support and develop that main idea.
What is an attention grabber?
.Authors develop central ideas by connecting and relating key details.
What is determining the development of central ideas?
Rhetoric is a platform for creating a relationship among three key components: the message, the writer/speaker, and audience.
What is the rhetorical triangle?
Just as a building has a certain structure and layout, so does a piece of writing.
What is organizational text structures?
Add a touch of your own perspective to these celebrated documents.
What is analyzing theme?
Primary the statement that is to be proved through the presentation of an argument.
What is a claim?
When you need to write an objective summary your goal is to understand the text's most important points: it's central idea.
What is introduction?
What is focus and scope?
Each body paragraph should contain this and it supports the main point.
What is evidence?
Perhaps you have been asked to write a letter to a congressional representative.
What is audience?
It prepares the audience for the body of the essay, which will provide evidence in support of it.
What is a thesis statement?