EOC Power Words
The main thought or idea in a text
What is main or central idea?
A clue that is intended to be misleading or distracting
What is red herring?
An appeal to emotion
What is pathos?
A summary without personal opinion; summary based on just facts.
What is an objective summary?
What GRAD school did Mrs. Meyer get her Master's Degree?
The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic
What is author's purpose?
A device in which the speaker makes a brief reference to a historical or literary figure, speech, event, or document to apply symbolic meaning
What is allusion?
An appeal to ethics, convincing the audience of one's credibility.
What is Ethos?
A summary with personal opinion.
What is subjective summary?
The Country that is being invaded by Russia
What is Ukraine?
To examine something with great detail; typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation.
What is Analyze?
What is satire?
An appeal to logic
What is Logos?
When an author states or asserts that something is the case, he/she is doing what?
What is a claim?
The way we format constructed responses.
What is ACES?
an author's deliberate use of hints or suggestions to give a preview of events or themes.
What is foreshadowing?
A short or amusing story about a real incident or person
What is an anecdote ?
This is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure
What is parallelism?
To create or come up with a strategy or an idea
What is to formulate?
What is get growth on the EOC?
An educated guess based on clues in the text
What is Infer?
The omission or absence or a conjunction between parts of sentences, but still making sense (...)
What is ellipsis?
This is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses,
What is anaphora?
To judge the value or condition of something or someone.
What is evaluate?
"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Who says this?
Who is Juliet?