Voice Choices
Persuasive Appeal
Smart Short Answers
Narrative Knowhow
A Writer's Process
100
Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
100
A logical appeal.
What is logos?
100
An acronym to help your remember how to respond to a short answer question.
What is A.C.E.S.
100
A description of a signifcant event in the writer's life.
What is an incident?
100
Brainstorming and outlining possible writing topics and ideas before writing.
What is prewriting?
200
An author's choice of words.
What is diction?
200
An emotional appeal.
What is pathos?
200
The question restated in the form of a statement.
What is your ANSWER to the question?
200
The writer's initial reaction to the event.
What is a response?
200
Writing--getting your ideas on paper.
What is drafting?
300
The speaker or writer's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
300
An ethical appeal.
What is ethos?
300
What the "C" stands for in ACE.
What is CITING evidence from the text?
300
Text that appears in quotation marks to indicate that a character is talking.
What is dialogue/quote?
300
Finishing your final copy of your paper and turning it in.
What is publishing?
400
The arrangment of words within a sentence.
What is syntax?
400
An appeal that can be created by using facts & figures.
What is logos?
400
Clearly linking your evidence to your response.
What is an EXPLANATION?
400
The end of a narrative that addresses the lesson the writer learned or expresses the significance of the event upon looking back on everything.
What is the reflection?
400
Fixing errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, etc.
What is editing?
500
The writer or speaker's own way of using language that expresses a unique persona.
What is voice?
500
An appeal that can be created through the use of bandwagon and/or transfer.
What is pathos?
500
In a short answer response question the score given when the response goes beyond the literal level and shows insightful analysis of the text.
What is a 2 and above?
500
An exagerration to prove a point or place emphasis.
What is a hyperbole?
500
Making changes to your paper's structure, your word choice, organization, etc. in order to improve clarity.
What is revising?
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