Argumentative Techniques
This technique uses facts, statistics, and examples to support a claim.
What is evidence?
This type of writing is meant to explain or inform.
What is expository writing?
This is the sequence of events in a story.
What is the Plot?
A comparison using 'like' or 'as' is called this.
What is a simile?
The reason an author writes a text, such as to inform, persuade, or entertain, is called this.
What is author's purpose?
Presenting the opposing viewpoint in an argument is called this.
What is a counterargument?
A short summary at the beginning of an article that tells what it will be about is called this
What is an introduction?
The person telling the story is called this.
What is the narrator?
This figure of speech gives human qualities to non-human things.
The time and place in which a story occurs is known as this.
What is the setting?
This is the main point or position that an argumentative essay tries to prove.
What is a thesis statement?
This organizational structure explains the cause of an event and its results.
What is cause and effect?
A struggle between opposing forces in a story is known as this.
What is the conflict?
An extreme exaggeration is called this.
What is hyperbole?
This literary device is the use of hints to suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Using emotional language to persuade the reader is known as this appeal.
What is pathos?
Using headings, bullet points, and diagrams are examples of these expository features.
Hints or clues about what will happen later in a story are called this.
A direct comparison that does not use 'like' or 'as' is this.
What is a metaphor?
Caffall tells the reader to "Try to imagine the black smoke from a diesel truck sitting above the sky". This instruction uses what technique to help the reader visualize the problem?
What is imagery?
This technique involves referencing a credible expert or source to strengthen an argument.
What is an appeal to authority(ethos)?
This technique asks and then answers questions to clarify information for the reader.
What is the question-and-answer method?
When a story is told from the perspective of 'I,' it is written in this point of view.
What is first person Point of view?
A phrase whose meaning cannot be understood from the individual words, like 'raining cats and dogs,' is called this.
What is an idiom?
The vocabulary word dubious, meaning "questionable or not to be relied upon", is used by Caffall to cast doubt on the technology of geoengineering and other "space boosters," which is a technique relying on the word's negative emotional association
What is loaded language (or connotation)