Key Terms
Characteristics
Terms
100
What are details backing a topic called?
Support
100
What are concrete, straight-forward examples relating to your topic?
Brief Support
100
What is examples, interacting with the senses, to get your point across?
Illustration
200
Name one of the types of support?
Brief and extended support
200
What is extra details and examples, used to uphold a topic?
Extended Support
200
Name 2 of the three organizational patterns
a. Chronological b. Spatial c. Emphatic
300
What is accuracy on information backing a topic?
Validity
300
What is key words or phrases used to introduce a topic?
Transition words
300
Something for which a name or designation stands
Reference
400
What is an opinion or viewpoint on a topic?
Assertion
400
What is a style of writing used to convince on a topic? (It is often used in exemplification essays).
Persuasion
400
Exemplification means … A) always using a positive approach, to please your audience, rather than dwelling on the negative aspects of a situation. B) wordiness in an essay, caused by unnecessarily long explanations. C) providing examples to support the thesis and topic sentences. D) a figure of speech, similar to personification
What is C
500
What is a topic expressed using only one side of the argument?
Non-Contradictory
500
What is a key term to AVOID when convincing the audience on your side of a topic?
Ambiguity
500
It is important to consider your audience, when writing an exemplification essay, because … A) knowing your audience helps you decide what language to use (what specific words to choose) and what tone to create (formal? informal?) B) depending on your audience’s knowledge, you may have to include more or less background information or explanations. C) different examples will be persuasive for different types of audiences. D) All of the above
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