Societal Challenges
Scenario: A teacher unconsciously calls on male students more frequently for science questions and female students for reading questions.
What is implicit bias?
Examples of this factor are Argentinian or Canadian.
What is nationality?
In literature and composition, the unique perspective, authority, and personality an author or character brings to the narrative or argument.
What is voice?
A term for the attitude or emotional atmosphere an author creates, often through word choice and imagery, to affect the reader.
What is a tone?
The surrounding words and sentences that provide clues to the meaning of an unfamiliar vocabulary word.
What are context clues?
Any action or policy that unjustly favors one group over another based on factors like race, age, or gender.
What is discrimination?
This factor relates to a shared culture, heritage, language, or history, such as the Cherokee Nation or the Punjabi community in India.
What is ethnicity?
The device used in the line, "Is this the time for silence? Are we truly safe?"
What is a rhetorical question?
The analytical strategy used when a writer addresses the opposing view to reinforce their own central argument.
What is counterargument/ rebuttal?
The relationship shown in the pair PRECISE : CLUMSY, where the two words have opposite meanings.
What is an antonym?
A negative, deeply entrenched belief system or prejudice against people based solely on their race or ethnicity.
What is racism?
This factor refers to a belief about what a person should be able to do, such as expecting a valedictorian to attend an Ivy League university.
What are expectations?
When analyzing an author's voice, this specific element refers to their attitude toward the subject matter (e.g., sarcastic, reverent, critical).
What is tone?
A literary device that uses something concrete (like an empty house) to represent an abstract idea or concept (like regret or loss).
What is symbolism?
The writer's goal when revising an overly long or wordy phrase (like "due to the fact that") to make it shorter and more effective.
What is conciseness/ making writing concise?
Scenario: A hiring manager states openly that she will not interview candidates from a specific university because "they are all lazy and underprepared."
What is explicit bias?
Earning a Pulitzer Prize, designing a sustainable micro-house, or mastering a difficult piece of music are all examples of this factor.
What are achievements?
Martin Luther King Jr.'s repetition of the phrase "I have a dream" at the start of multiple clauses is the most famous example of this rhetorical device.
What is anaphora?
The logical technique used to combine two different ideas (A and B) found in separate parts of the text to arrive at a new, reasonable conclusion (C).
What is inferring/inference?
A sentence with two or more independent clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS).
What is a compound word/sentence?
A fixed, oversimplified, and often negative generalization about an entire group of people.
What are stereotypes?
Scenario: An athlete feels crushed after losing a race because she believes she failed to meet her parents' demanding projections for her performance. The factor she failed to meet is this.
What is expectations?
What is missing from the following list of Narrative structure components? _________, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, __________.
What are Exposition and Resolution?
Scenario: A politician quotes a university study showing a 95% certainty of a policy's economic success. This appeal is primarily based on this.
What is logos of rhetorical appeals (ethos/pathos/logos)?
This is the required tense and PoV for maintaining an academic voice in formal argumentative or research writing.
What are present-tense and third person?