VOCAB
insolence
What is rude and disrespectful behavior?
A verb tense that indicates something is / was / or will be ongoing.
What is progressive tense?
The possessive form of "they" (SPELLED CORRECTLY!)
What is THEIR?
Reading Response Essay
What is a type of essay where you, as a reader, critically engage with a text, demonstrating your understanding, identifying the author's purpose and main argument, and expressing your personal reactions and opinions supported by textual evidence?
Mr. Ender's happy donuts coffee
What is an iced mocha?
a very small or inadequate amount of money paid to someone as an allowance or wage
what is a pittance?
What is the form of a verb, ending in -ing in English, which is used in forming continuous tenses?
She "don't know nothing" is an example of a
What is a double negative?
Meta / Self-referential Commentary
What is any content within an essay that references the structure, thesis, or nature of the paper?
Ex.: "In this paper, crow behavior will be discussed."
OR
Ex.: "As the thesis makes clear, crows exhibit human-like behavior.
Difference between a metaphor and a simile.
What is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable?
What is a literary device using "like" or "as" to show similarities?
(n) an opening, hole, or gap
What is an Aperture?
Gerund
What is an -ing verb that functions as a noun?
Concession
What is it called when a writer states the opposing viewpoint?
Words like "therefore," "for example," and "on the other hand" hel connect ideas smoothly.
what are transition words?
The prepositional phrase in this sentence: We saw the squirrel running up a tree.
What is UP A TREE?
Metropolis
Transitive Verb
What is a verb that requires an object to complete its meaning?
Where should the comma(s) be? My brother who is six feet tall likes to play basketball.
What is MY BROTHER, WHO IS SIX FEET TALL, LIKES TO PLAY BASKETBALL.
3 types of narrative hooks
What are startling, introductory, conversational, action-packed, and descriptive?
What was the phrase "speckled band" in reference to?
The patterned snake (swamp adder) that killed Julia.
Spell (adj) <unable to be upset or excited; calm>
What is i-m-p-e-r-t-u-r-b-a-b-l-e?
Forming past-progressive tense
What is using the past-tense form of "to be" (was/were) + present participle + concurrent event;
"will" often used?
What is "__ said" or "____ yelled" called? Specifically the word "said" or "yell".
Dialogue tags!
The three (or four) types of rhetoric in a persuasive essay
Logos, Pathos, Ethos, MAYBE Kairos
A straw-man argument
A straw man argument is one that argues against a hyperbolic, inaccurate version of the opposition rather than their actual argument.