Rhetoric
This is a word for using language purposefully and effectively.
What is rhetoric?
This part of speech takes the place of a noun, and can sometimes be the subject of a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
This sentence normally states the writers claim, opinion, or main idea, and is often included in the first paragraph.
What is a thesis statement?
In the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" the American and Girl are trying to make a decision about this.
What is abortion?
A group of words that has a subject, verb, and complete thought.
What is a sentence?
This basic appeal relies on the writer's character or reputation.
What is ethos?
This part of speech is included in every complete sentence, and is an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
In this part of the essay the writer uses reasons and evidence to prove or explain the thesis statement.
What is the body?
In the story, "Edison, New Jersey" the protagonist has a job delivering these.
What are pool tables and card tables.
This is a type of sentence error with too much information (two or more subjects and verbs), and it is not divided properly.
What is a run-on sentence?
This basic appeal relies on the writer's use of good, logical reasons.
What is logos?
Use this punctuation mark anytime you include the exact words of someone else in your writing.
What are quotation marks?
What is the introduction?
This happens to the female character at the end of the story "Barn Burning".
She is missing or she disappears.
This is a type of sentence error with either a subject, verb, or complete thought missing.
What is a sentence fragment?
This basic appeal relies on the writer's use of emotion.
What is pathos?
This part of speech can be used to connect words or ideas, and one type is very important in correcting comma splices and run-on sentences.
What is a conjunction?
This part of the essay may summarize main ideas from the paper, explain the significance of the paper, or leave the reader with a final point.
What is the conclusion?
In the essay "Driving Away" by Katherine Krueger-Land, the writer is struggling to maintain something, and she comes to see that her friend Nick is a threat to this.
What is sobriety?
This is a type of sentence that has too much information (two or more subjects and verbs), and though this error does include a comma, more is needed to divide it properly.
What is a comma splice?
This method of persuasion asks the reader to imagine how something will or won't be in the future.
What is predicting the consequences?
This part of speech shows direction (to you), location (on stage), time (at noon), or it introduces an object.
What is a preposition?
These short, but important, words help the reader move from one point to another, and they add coherence and cohesion to an essay.
What are transitions?
If you are asking good questions and commenting thoughtfully on or about the text while reading, you are doing this?
What is critical reading?
This type of sentence successfully combines two independent clauses into one sentence, often using a FANBOY and a comma to clearly connect the two ideas.
What is a compound sentence?