Style (Dress-ups)
What are your banned words?
What is: go/went, say/said, good, bad, pretty, big, small
What question does the central fact in a Unit 5 piece answer?
What is: What is actually happening in the picture?
How many words may be in a #6 sentence?
What is: 2-5 words
What must a concluding paragraph include?
What is: restate the topics, tell what is most significant and why, end with a final sentence that repeats 1-3 key words in the title.
Which numbers should be spelled out rather than written as numerals?
What is: numbers that can be expressed in one or two words.
What do the letters in the www.asia.b dress-up stand for?
What is: when, while, where, as, since, if, although, because
When you must write without a source text (e.g., Units 5 & 7), how can you get ideas for what to write?
What is: ask yourself questions
Give six prepositions that can begin a #2 opener.
What is: answers may vary
What is the purpose of a literary critique?
What is: to give and support an opinion about a story
Name two exceptions to the rule stated in Mechanics, $100:
Which numbers should be spelled out rather than written as numerals?
What is: dates, years, numbers at the beginning of a sentence (answers may vary)
Identify what makes the -ly adverb in the sentence below 👎. Give an example of how your would revise the sentence to explain your answer.
The colonists were extremely (ly) angered by the king's actions.
What is: Opt for a strong verb over an ly + adjective; The colonists were incensed by the king's actions (answers may vary).
What is the formula for topic sentence key words? Give an example using, Sally Ride, to explain your answer.
What is: subject + topic + what about the topic; astronauts, S. Ride, 1st woman (answers may vary)
Name one thing a #2 and #5 opener have in common and one thing that makes them distinct from one another.
What is: they both require a comma post-opener; #2 openers only have nouns, #5 openers have nouns and verbs
What kind of words or phrases should you avoid using in a critique? Give an example of a phrase to explain your example.
What is: personal pronouns; I think, in my opinion
For the most part, how should someone be referenced the first time (in a composition)? After that, how should they be referenced?
What is: first and last name; by last name only
Write a sentence correctly using four dress-ups.
(answers may vary)
Name four techniques for creating attention getters.
What is: ask a question, use a VSS, use a quotes, begin with an intriguing fact.
Identify and correct the error in the example below. You may add additional information, but you must revise the sentence using a #5 opener.
[5] Because of the deplorable conditions, hundreds of men would lose their lives to Big Bend before the war was over.
What is: #5 openers must contain a subject + verb; [5] Because they were forced to work in deplorable conditions, hundreds of men would lose their lives to Big Bend before the war was over.
What do the five letters in the TRIAC method stand for?
What is: Topic, Restriction, Illustration, Analysis, Clincher
When must you hyphenate ages? Give an example to explain your answer.
What is: When used in front of a noun (functioning as an adjective); e.g., sixteen-year-old Ivan
Write a sentence using five dress-ups.
(answers may vary)
Identify the topic-clincher words (repeated or reflected) below. Then, give two reasons for why this an effective topic-clincher pairing.
Topic Sentence: The Brothers Grimm were publishers of fairy tales.
Clincher: Audiences continue to delight in the stories published by the Brothers Grimm.
Explain the error in each of the sentences below:
1. [4] Flying above the capitol, he spotted the majestic flag.
2. [4] Flying the flag shows my patriotism.
3. [4] During a fireworks show, the flag is surrounded by bursting colors.
What is: 1. misplaced -ing modifier, 2. gerund as subject, 3. prepositional opener
Explain the purpose of each letter in the TRIAC method.
What is:
Topic: Begin with a topic sentence that describes the character.
Restriction: Restrict to a specific reason to support what you said.
Illustrate: Illustrate your reason with a passage from the story.
Analyze: Explain the passage.
Clincher: Reflect key words from the topic sentence.
When must you capitalize direction words like north, south, east, and west? Give an example to explain your answer.
What is: When they refer to a region or proper name; e.g., Columbus sailed west in order to reach the East