Terminology
The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
What is rhetoric?
A sentence unit that contains of a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
When a writer gives a concise overview of a text’s main points in their own words.
What is summary?
In 2020, he wrote the New York Times Op-Ed "Send in the Troops".
Who is Tom Cotton?
This Christmas holiday ballet first premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1892.
What is the Nutcracker?
The use of descriptive, sensory details in writing.
What is imagery?
A sentence that consists of two or more
independent clauses that are joined without appropriate punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
A source that has firsthand experience with its subject.
What is a primary source?
The classic book by J. M. Barrie opens with the line “All children, except one grew up”.
What is Peter Pan?
This type of fruit was traditionally put in Christmas stockings in the 19th century.
What is an orange?
A line or symbol used for the purpose of breaking up sections of a chapter, article, or other text.
What is a dinkus?
A sentence that is missing a subject, a verb, or contains an incomplete thought.
What is a fragment?
When research findings are verified by other experts in the field.
What is peer-reviewed?
She wrote Frankenstein.
What is the name of the spinning top used in the Hanukkah game?
What is a dreidel?
Part of a braided essay that could be a line of researched inquiry, a personal narrative, or a string of thought about a specific topic.
What is a thread?
A sentence unit that can stand alone as its own sentence. It contains a subject and a verb.
What is an independent clause?
This must be included whenever research is quoted, paraphrased or summarized in an essay.
What is an in-text citation?
She wrote the essay "Time and Distance Overcome".
Who is Eula Biss?
It happens around December 21st or 22nd in the Northern Hemisphere, varying each year due to the Earth's elliptical orbit.
What is the Winter Solstice?
An rhetorical technique evoking pity or compassion.
What is pathos?
A sentence unit that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence because it does not express a complete thought.
What is a dependent clause?
This type of research is concerned with subjective data that can't be numerically measured.
What is qualitative research?
Cathy Park Hong's essay "Bad English" was published in this essay collection.
What is Minor Feelings?
The total number of gifts received throughout the ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ holiday song?
What is 364?