The Spanish explorers used these types of words in order to share the accounts of their travels in the New World in chronological order with people back home.
What are signal words?
100
Jonathan Edwards appeals to this primary emotion in his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
What is fear?
100
This former slave wrote about his experiences on a ship traveling the Middle Passage.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
100
This is a group of words punctuated as if it were a sentence but is missing either a subject or a predicate.
What is a fragment?
100
This word means the same as "hate."
What is abhor?
200
López de Cárdenas’s main purpose in “Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville” is to explore this geographic element.
What is a river?
200
At the end of his sermon, Jonathan Edwards' tone becomes hopeful in order to persuade his audience to seek this.
What is salvation?
200
Some slaves on the slavers' ship chose to do this in order to avoid slavery.
What is commit suicide?
200
You can add this to a sentence to fix a comma splice.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
200
This word describes the absolute likeliness that something will happen.
What is inevitable?
300
"The Earth on Turtle's Back" explains the origin of this.
What is the Earth?
300
Pres. Obama uses this type of appeal when he says, "I pleged to end the war in Iraq honorably, and that’s what we’ve done."
What is ethos?
300
The "necessary tubs" Equiano describes were these.
What are toilets?
300
This can be used instead of a period if you want to combine two sentences.
What is a semicolon?
300
This word describes what Cabeza de Vaca and his men did on their journey through Texas to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is traversed?
400
This character is an archetype for the strength and age of the world in "The Earth on Turtle's Back."
What is the turtle?
400
Pres. Obama conveys his purpose implicitly in his speech to the VFW. This word describes how Gov. Romney conveys his purpose.
What is explicitly?
400
Equiano writes, "The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable," in order to make his readers feel this emotion.
What is scared or disgusted?
400
This type of clause must be attached to an independent clause in order for it to become a complete sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
400
This word is what Jefferson says King George was engaged in.
What is tyrant?
500
The Sky Sprit created these with his big stick when he threw pieces of it into the river.
What are the beaver and the otter?
500
This rhetorical device is a repetition of a particular grammatical structure.
What is parallelism?
500
Equiano's detailed descriptions indicate that he might become an abolitionist or this when he becomes free.
What is a sailor?
500
You can begin a sentence with this word if you reverse the order of the sentence and add a comma to indicate the reversal.