Academic Writing
The sentence that can be described as the road map of the essay.
What is the thesis statement?
Some people claim that this ideal is now dead.
What is the American Dream?
An underlying meaning of a literary work, a general truth about life or humankind
What is a theme?
The full title of the organization that uses the acronym "NRA."
What is the National Rifle Association?
What are the four Sundays before Christmas?
The name of an academic essay that includes and introduction, conclusion, and three body paragraphs.
What is a five paragraph essay?
The title of the short story (we read as a class) that deals with the American Dream.
What is "I See You Never?"
Words that carry an idea or abstract meaning in additional to the original meaning
What is a symbol?
The bipartisan organization that's mission is to end gun violence.
What is The Brady Campaign?
What is Great Britian?
Writing that uses impartial (unbias) language, which is not personal , judgmental, or emotive.
What is objective writing?
The English word that means "the removal of person or group of people from a country."
What is deportation?
The exposition, inciting moment, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution are all apart of....
What is Freytag's Triangle?
In Home Alone, this is where the Macallisters are going on vacation when they leave Kevin behind.
What is Paris?
The first sentence of each body paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
The number of waves of immigration to the U.S.
What are the four waves of immigration?
The three types of third-person point of view
What are the limited, omnicient (all-knowing), and objective points of view?
The official name for Obamacare.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
The number of ghosts that show up in A Christmas Carol.
Who are the four ghosts?
The academic term for the "so what" of an academic essay.
What is the synthesis?
Who are Asian and Hispanic groups?
The more common term for denouement.
What is the falling action?
Who is Michael Moore?
There are this many nights of Hanukkah.
What are the eight nights?