Unit 1
Definition of arduous
What is difficult to achieve?
Definition of exacerbate
What is to make more severe?
Definition of incumbency
State of currently occupying an office?
Definition of candor
What is frankness or honesty?
Definition of misnomer
What is an incorrect term used to describe or designate something?
Central Idea
What is an overarching message or truth that is specific to a text?
Rhetoric
What is the art of persuasion?
Examples of structural evidence
What are sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and sections?
Theme
What is the central message or universal truth conveyed by a text?
Evidence
What is a critical piece that supports an argument?
Objective summary
What is a brief account of the facts of a text?
Syntax
What is the way words, phrases, and sentences are arranged to demonstrate an author’s meaning, purpose, and style?
Informational essay
What is an expository essay used to inform or describe?
Two tasks involved in argumentative essays
What is forming and supporting an argument, and what is providing and arguing against an opposing view?
Last sentence of an introduction
What is a thesis statement?
Two types of different hidden meanings
What is explicit and implicit?
Personification
What is the attribution of human-like traits to non human items?
Causes a reader to have a certain emotion
What is pathos?
Examples of rhetorical devices
What is allusion, antithesis, diction, irony, parallelism, syntax, and understatement?
A dash that is used to add clarity
What is a hyphen?
An author's style is made up of
What is task, purpose, and audience?
Anecdote
What is a brief story?
A clear and concise sentence briefly explaining the contents of one's writing
What is a thesis statement?
Qualities of a weak thesis statement
What is being too broad, stating a fact, not taking a position and, being obvious?
Comma splice
What is two independent causes incorrectly connected by a comma?