Parts of Speech
This is the thing doing the action in a sentence, or what the sentence is about.
What is a Subject?
The location in an essay where you place your least important point.
What is the middle?
An appeal based on emotion.
What is pathos?
Contains a subject and a verb and can stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
A series of statements that supports a point.
What is an argument?
A name for an action word.
What is a verb?
The place in an essay where you place your most important point.
What is the end?
An appeal based on reasoning.
What is logos?
Contains a subject and a verb, but is not a complete sentence by itself.
What is a dependent clause?
A name for the explanation that supports a claim.
What is analysis or reasoning?
The name for the part of a sentence that contains a verb and something about the subject.
What is a predicate?
The name for an opposing viewpoint addressed in an argument.
What is a counterclaim?
An appeal based on someone's credibility.
What is ethos?
What is made when two independent clauses are combined with a coordinating conjunction?
What is a compound sentence?
What are pieces of evidence that support a claim?
What is evidence?
The acronym 'FANBOYS' is used to remember this type of conjunction.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
In an essay, the name for a point you're trying to prove.
What is a claim?
An appeal made possible due to its time in history.
What is kairos?
This is another name for a dependent clause.
What is a sentence fragment?
To outline in detail.
What is to delineate?
This may be used in place of a comma and a coordinating conjunction to combine two independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
As a general rule, argumentative text will have more of this.
What is evidence?
The qualities of an argument that make it truly persuasive.
What are rhetorical appeals.
Dependent clauses often begin with this type of conjunction.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
The name for a short funny or interesting story about a real event or person.
What is an anecdote?