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This is restating essential information expressed in a text, whether it be narration, dialogue, or informational text.
What is paraphrasing?
A short story, whether fiction or nonfiction, is a form of this.
What is a narrative?
He wrote about farm life and the New England landscape. His apparently simple poems have many layers of meaning.
Who is Robert Frost?
This refers to rules for the construction of a sentence. It's Greek prefix means “together,” and the root means “order” or “arrangement.”
What is syntax?
A conditional statement in an argument generally suggests this rhetorical appeal.
What is logos?
A visual representation for the organization of information from the text.
What is a Graphic Organizer?
The use of words to describe one thing in terms of another.
What is figurative language?
He started writing short stories while he was in jail for embezzlement.
Who is O. Henry?
These join two independent clauses that could be written as separate sentences and writers often use them to suggest a close relationship between the two clauses—a closer relationship than would be implied if they stood as separate sentences—and to create a longer sentence.
What are semicolons?
When President Obama tells America's school children that he has "given a lot of speeches about education," "talked about responsibility a lot," and "talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students," he is attempting to establish this.
What is ethos/credibility/trustworthiness?
A brief statement of the main points or essential information expressed in a text, whether it be narration, dialogue, or informational text.
What is Summarizing?
This is the distinctive way a writer uses language, characterized by elements of voice, organization, and so on.
What is style?
Poe's story of revenge takes place on this day of the week.
What is Tuesday?
These are used to describe situations in which each individual in a pair or group performs the same action toward the other(s).
What are reciprocal pronouns?
This type of evidence uses a “what if” or possible scenario in order to challenge the audience to consider its implications.
What is Hypothetical Case?
When you access small chunks of text to read, reread, mark, and annotate key passages, word-for-word, sentence-by-sentence, and line-by-line.
What is a Close Read?
This is the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work, the effect of the words on the audience.
What is mood?
A theme of this author's story could be that there is an undeniable gap between the rich and the poor.
Who is Liliana Heker?
Typically, this is when a comma or a colon is used to introduce a short or long narrative quotation respectively.
What is punctuating dialogue?
This Greek philosopher defined rhetoric as the art of seeing the available means of persuasion.
These help focus on matters of fact, meaning, and relevance in order to identify themes in literary texts.
What are Levels of Questions?
This is the expression of similar ideas in the same grammatical form, which can help bring clarity and coherence to your writing.
What is parallel structure?
This author introduces the audience to his title character through a first person narrator who is left in "unquiet darkness."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This is when verbs within a sentence change between active and passive voice, which can confuse an audience.
What is an inappropriate shift in voice?
This is the type of rhetoric that focuses on the future.
What is deliberative rhetoric?