Biographies
What is a biography?
What is Story of someone’s life written by someone else
The author's main argument or statement of belief
What is Thesis statement
Emphasizes an idea through the reuse of words, sounds, phrases or sentences
Story of someone’s life written by someone else
What is Biography
Piece of writing that tells you in detail how to do something.
What is How-to Writing
Allusion made to in Harriet Tubman text
Who is Moses
The amount of time people spend watching television by the time they turn 20
What is 20,000
Refers to the character of the person giving the argument to establish credibility
Ethos
Public address that is delivered orally
Speech
Informational piece of writing about a particular topic, issue, event, or series of events. Includes editorials and reviews.
What is Article
The movements Tubman helped organize and work with
What is the Underground Railroad and the Women's Suffrage Movement
Main Idea of The Trouble with Television
What is Television discourages concentration
Tone of Lou Gehrig's Speech
Text that aims to convey information
Opinion that uses judgement words like: good, bad, nice, cheap, ugly, etc…
What is Value Statement
Event that effected Tubman for the rest of her life
What is getting hit by a rock from her master
Tone of the Trouble with Television
What is Skeptical
Draws the attention of the audience by asking a question that is not meant to be answered
What is Rhetorical Questions
Short work presenting a main idea, or thesis, about a specific topic
What is Essay
a statement that can be proven by direct observation or supported by reliable sources.
What is fact
Tone of Harriet Tubman text
What is admiring
Purpose of the Trouble with Television
What is to inform and persuade
Emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by presenting them in the same grammatical form
What is Parallelism
Type of autobiography that focuses on one incident
Memoir
Statement that plays to a person’s desire to be part of the crowd- to be like everyone else and do what everyone else is doing
What is bandwagon appeal