Rhetorical Method
Punctuation
Essay
Words
A little bit of everything
100
So let’s be clear-eyed, realistic, pragmatic.
Colloquialism
100
What comma rule is used in this sentence. "...lives are circumscribed by poverty, discrimination, low expectations, cultural insularity, and other conditions"(paragraph 4)
Rule 1: separate a series of 3 or more items.
100
What is the tone of this essay?
Both subjective and objective. (mostly subjective)
100
solving problems in a practical and sensible way rather than by having fixed ideas or theories.
pragmatic
100
Who needs literature according to the writer?
We all do.
200
Think of the experience so many young readers have with Anne Frank’s diary. What is learned of the Holocaust in that little book is learned in a powerful, moving profoundly intimate way.
Allusion
200
What comma rule is used in this sentence. "Why, then, is literature so easily devalued in the conversation about communications skills of the future?" (paragraph 3)
Rule 5:set off a parenthetical word or phrase.
200
What is the subject of this essay?
The writer's claim for literature
200
an aggressively enterprising person.
go-getter
200
What is the main of Anne Frank's diary?
Anne Frank
300
Literature thus might be one antidote to the disease of disconnection that afflicts us.
analogy
300
What colon rule is used in this sentence? "...about how literature is often taught in high school: outline the plot. Identify the theme. Detail the setting."
Rule 4:set off an explanation.
300
What is the thesis of the essay?
“Primarily, I believe literature is justifiable in the modern curriculum for its contributions to the cultivation of imagination and empathy”
300
What is the opposite word for "antidote" ?
poison
300
What is the main claim for literature that the writer want to offer to his workforce-oriented colleagues?
We need literature to learn to get along.(paragraph 21)
400
Think, then, about how literature is often taught in high school: outline the plot. Identify the theme. Detail the setting. List main characters and supporting characters. Comment on the structure of the work.
Example
400
What comma rule is used in this sentence? The effort to understand advances what Shelley called the “moral imagination,” a capacity to occupy another mind and tell the emotional pulse of another heart. Literature gives us a chance to experience moral dilemmas.
Rule 7: set off a short quotation.
400
The effectiveness of introduction
•Effective because it begins with a question—to grab reader’s interest and make them want to keep reading. •Effective because it directly identifies the subject(Literature) at the beginning, and indicates the reason of writing this essay and why this is matter— “Literature, it strikes me, has a hard time adapting itself to this language of “job-force literacy.” •Effective because the thesis is clearly stated in the intro.
400
ideas or statements that may be false or exaggerated and that are used in order to gain support for a political leader, party, etc.
propaganda
400
Any rhetorical method used in this sentence? President Clinton uses a line that registers with me as a teacher: “Children can’t be expected to live a life they can’t imagine."
None of.
500
I’m attending a before-school staff meeting of teachers from various disciplines to discuss restructuring the high school
Anecdote
500
What are the two dashes used for in this sentence? "The great dangers of our time at the end of the century——nihilism, barbarism, the inability to acknowledge the humanity of others outside one’s own tribe, cynicism, boredom——are perils literature attempts to combat."
First dash: Rule 1, to emphasize ab explanation. Second dash: Rule 2, to sum up a preceding list of things.
500
Literature ming be one antidote to what disease according to the writer?
Disconnection
500
I am the one makes people become narrow-minded. Who am I?
insularity
500
How many famous people mentioned in the essay?
Six: president Clinton, Shelley, Anne Frank, Hitler, Jose Goebbels and Bertolt Brecht.
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