Rhetorical Modes
Grammar and Construction
I told you so...
100
This mode tells a story.
What is a narrative?
100
When hand writing something, you would always underline this.
What is the title of a book?
100
You should briefly evaluate this before reading the passages for multiple choice.
What is the rhetorical situation?
200
This mode is word painting through the use of significant details.
What is description?
200
These would be two examples of title types you would cite with quotations.
What is an essay, a letter, a poem, a song.
200
The most important tip you can take into the multiple choice portion of the exam is this.
What is anticipating the answer?
300
This mode juxtaposes two or more ideas in hopes that by seeing one through the lens of the other each may be explained and clarified.
What is compare and contrast?
300
These clause types are also known as sentence and fragment.
What is and independent and dependent clause?
300
DAILY DOUBLE: Before you write any of the essays, you should do this.
What is make sure you understand what the prompt is asking you to do OR draft a sample thesis statement.
400
DAILY DOUBLE: This mode asks why and analyzes by dividing into reasons and results.
What is cause and effect?
400
The primary function of this punctuation mark is emphasis.
What is a dash? are opening and delayed adjectives and adverbs?
400
The task for the Rhetorical Analysis Essay includes analyzing these two things.
What is the author's purpose and the devices used to accomplish that purpose?
500
This mode is intended to help the reader understand one thing by likening it to a more familiar thing.
What is analogy or allegory?
500
These are four sentence combining options you can use. They have to do with specific parts of speech and the placement of those parts of speech in the sentence.
What are opening and delayed adjectives and adverbs?
500
These are the steps you should apply when approaching the Synthesis Essay.
What is Read, Analyze, Generalize, Converse, Finesse, Argue.