Essay Structure
What is the most important sentence in your essay that you would find in the introduction?
Thesis Statement
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
Simile
What does the color "gold" most likely represent in the poem?
A. purity and beauty
B. wealth and riches
C. Warmth and kindness
D. Strength and power
A. purity and beauty
What kind of sentence is the following sentence?
The dog ran away.
Simple Sentence
What is pathos?
A rhetorical appeal to the emotions
What are the three elements that must be in your thesis statement?
Subject, opinion, and reasons to support your claim.
Comparison not using "like" or "as"
Metaphor
2. Which of the following is used to develop the poem?
A. cause and effect
B. argument
C. definition
D. parallel analogies
D. parallel analogies
What is a sentence with two independent clauses connected with a FANBOY?
Compound Sentence
An appeal to a person's credibility or ethics.
Ethos
What is a topic sentence?
The first sentence of each body paragraph that states the main idea of your paragraph.
Language used to "create a picture" for the reader in a literary work
Imagery
"So Eden sank to grief" is an example of
A. Alliteration
B. Metaphor
C. Allusion
D. Onomatopoeia
C. Allusion
What is a sentence with one dependent and two independent clauses connected with a FANBOY?
Compound-Complex Sentence
The following is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
According to research done at Stanford University, 98% of farts stink.
Logos
What is the acronym that we use to brainstorm specific evidence for our paragraphs?
EACH
Entertainment
Anecdotes
Current Events
History
Giving human traits to non-human things
Personification
AABBCCDD
What kind of sentence is the following sentence?
Kate doesn’t like cartoons because they are loud.
Complex Sentence
The following is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
Don't be the last person on the block to have their lawn treated - you don't want to be the laughing stock of your community!
Pathos
How many paragraphs should your essay include?
Four
Introduction, Body Paragraph 1, Body Paragraph 2, Conclusion
An exaggerated statement
Hyperbole
What is the theme of Nothing Gold Can Stay?
What kind of sentence is the following sentence?
The dog started barking so the cat ran away and I couldn’t keep up, so I stopped.
Compound-Complex Sentence
"The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is." ---To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Logos