Tone
The writer's attitude towards their subject.
What is tone?
How specific words create specific effects
What is word choice?
An intro should be leading to this.
What is a thesis?
The female main character is The Gift of the Magi.
Who is Della?
Our teacher's name.
Who is Hanna Smith-Loftis?
The tone evoked by slang.
What is casual?
Words like "like", "stuff", "things", and "nice"
What are filler words
The introduction technique to avoid.
What is "In this essay I will discuss..."?
The author of The Yellow Wallpaper and A Jury of Her Peers
Who is Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
Our teacher's dog's name
Who is Cerberus?
The tone you should be using in academic writing.
What is formal?
The part of speech piled on by weaker writers to over- describe.
What are adjectives?
The purpose of an introduction is the establish this without filler.
What is context?
The name of the female love interest in the The Raven
Who is Lenore?
Our teacher's signature color.
What is pink?
The tone evoked by words like "aforementioned," "procure," "endeavor," "utilize"
What is pretentious?
Short sentences evoke this sense.
What is urgency?
The funnel approach to writing intros is to start broad but quickly
What is narrow?
Wrote "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" also name dropped in a Taylor Swift song.
Who is Dylan Thomas?
The 46th state to join the union and the state our teacher is from.
Where is Oklahoma?
Tone comes through in word choice, sentence structure, and level of ..."
What is formality?
Using a mix of short and long sentences
What is varying sentence structure?
Mixing sentence length in an intro creates this.
What is rhythm?
Jonathan Swift suggests this atrocity to deal with poverty in A Modest Proposal.
What is cannibalism?
The genre our teacher has published.
What is poetry?