Literary Terms
True stories and real information
What is non-fiction
Position: High schools should teach basic financial literacy.
Certified public accountant Ethan Melton notes that students who are not taught how to manage credit cards often end up overspending.
What is ethos?
A sequential plan that guides investigation, questions, and exploration of theories.
What is the research process?
What is Modern Language Association?
To explain, to entertain, to describe, to persuade...
What is author's purpose?
The final outcome of a story
What is resolution?
Position: Schools should eliminate long summer vacations in favor of a year-round calendar?
Long summer breaks are famously associated with relaxation so extreme that it verges on sloth, as students sleep until noon and spend hours lounging with friends.
What is pathos?
The first step in the research process.
What is identify and develop a topic?
A separate page reserved for documenting sources.
What is the Works Cited page?
These can be supported with details, description, and explanation.
What is a main idea?
It contains the focus of your essay and tell your reader what the paper will be about.
What is a thesis?
Position: Companies should not be allowed to market products to children.
Advertising research suggests that children have difficulty distinguishing between product advertisements and entertainment content.
What is logos?
This helps keep track of large amounts of information.
What is an outline?
Giving credit to the source.
What is a citation?
It ran into an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean it sank within three hours.
What is a run-on sentence?
A life story of a person written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
Position: Americans place too much emphasis on self-reliance and not enough on community.
Like most suburbanites, I live in a house with its own yard and fences between my neighbors' properties and mine, which effectively discourages the use of shared space and frequent communication.
What is ethos?
A wikipedia page with few citations, a blog post with no listed author, or a social media post.
What is a non-credible source?
Copying and not giving credit for another person's work
What is plagiarism?
The feelings or emotions associated with a particular word, beyond its dictionary definition
What is connotation?
The highest point in a story
What is Climax?
Position: Companies should not be allowed to market products to children.
Companies ruthlessly take advantage of the naïveté of children by using bright colors, catchy music, and engaging characters to advertise their products.
What is pathos?
The final step of the research process.
What is cite information using a standard format?
Putting the information that you learned from a source into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
What is tone?