Vocabulary
Word that means: Not given the chance or freedom to vote?
What is Un-enfranchised?
"If I lost my BlackBerry, I would die." - Kim Kardashian
What is hyperbole?
You are the sun, moon, and stars to me.
metaphor
Who wrote The Jungle?
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The works cited is placed at this place in the paper.
What is after the end of the paper, on its own page?
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -Dr. Martin L. King
Ethos & Pathos
What does the word specter mean?
What is ghost or devil?
A question whose answer is implied or obvious.
What is a rhetorical question?
Jumbo Shrimp
Icy Hot
Pretty Ugly
Oxymorons
What was the author's purpose in writing this novel? (What was he trying to do?)
What is the exposing of horrible and unsanitary conditions of Chicago's Meat-Packing District.
The spacing requirement for an MLA-style works cited.
What is double spacing?
By donating only fifty cents a day, you can help give a child clean drinking water.
Pathos & Logos
What is clever and original?
What is ingenious?
This is a mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort and it is based on sequence of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework.
What is narrative?
The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Give 2 examples of the working conditions from the meatpacking plant.
Entries on the works cited page must be arranged in this order.
What is alphabetical order?
The Centers for Disease Control recommends getting a flu vaccine each fall.
Ethos & Logos
What is a condition in which one is unable to think normally because of being drunk, drugged or tired?
What is stupor?
“Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one hand, ‘Taxation without representation is tyranny,’ and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses ‘representation’” (Catt).
What is Logos?
"Prior planning prevents poor performance."
What is alliteration?
“They used every part of the pig except the squeal.” (Chapter 10, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair) The primary purpose of this line was to show what?
Show the unsanitary methods used by meat-packing factories.
This type of indentation is used on an MLA-formatted works cited page.
What is hanging indentation?
Nearly 25% of all car accidents are caused by drivers using cell phones while driving.
Logos
The word that means unavoidable, going to happen, for sure.
What is Inevitable?
What is the appeal being used here? "Eighty years after the Revolution, Abraham Lincoln welded those two maxims into a new one: "Ours is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Fifty years more passed and the president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, in a mighty crisis of the nation, proclaimed to the world: "We are fighting for the things which we have always carried nearest to our hearts: for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government."
What is Ethos?
This type of irony is represented in the example below: Alyssa is a professional body builder. She has won 12 gold medals for her strength. She is now a mailwoman. While delivering a heavy box, she drops it.
What is situational irony?
"They were beaten, they were swept aside, they had lost the game." (chapter 14, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair) What "game" did Jurgis, Ona and Elzbieta lose?
They lost the game of life/success in America.
Correct the formatting of this quote so that it is in proper MLA format: I was walking along the street she said when I saw a cat and a dog chasing each other Smith page 24
What is: "I was walking along the street," she said, "when I saw a cat and dog chasing each other" (Smith, 24).
My coach suggested I cross-train on Sundays to work different muscle groups.
Ethos