General Knowledge
An author's position or attitude toward a subject, which a student must analyze to understand how it influences the text.
What is Tone?
The literary element that refers to the sequence of events in a story.
The central statement or position an argument sets out to prove.
What is Central Idea (Main Idea)?
When writing a response, this is the most important thing to do.
What is Answer the Question?
This refers to the time, place, and historical circumstances surrounding a text's creation, influencing its content and reception.
What is Context?
This is the central problem in a story that the main character faces throughout the work.
What is Conflict?
The rhetorical appeal that uses logic, facts, and evidence to persuade an audience.
What is Logos?
This is a statement that is proven true that can be used as support for a claim.
What is Fact?
This is what an author can use to strengthen their writing by saying things that aren't meant to be taken literally? (Examples: Metaphor, Simile, etc.)
What is Figurative Language?
The way an author creates a character through their conversations, actions, descriptions, and thoughts.
What is Characterization?
What is evidence?
A common expository structure that discusses the reasons why something happened and the results of it.
This is what you must do after you have provided evidence in order to connect it to your answer.
What is Explain?
This literary device is used to reference something well-known that enhances a story through comparisons, connections, or context.
What is Allusion?
This literary device is used to describe something in a narrative in detail to appeal to one of the five senses for the reader.
What is Imagery?
The part of an argument that acknowledges and refutes opposing viewpoints.
What is a Counterclaim (Rebuttal)?
An organizational structure that presents a problem and then offers one or more practical solutions.
What is Problem and Solution?
This is when you have to look up information about a topic and find your own sources using the internet.
What is Research?
These are the four types of writing works will be categorized into.
What is Narrative, Expository, Argumentative, and Poetry?
The use of an object, person, or idea to represent something abstract or more significant. Something meant to represent something else.
What is Symbolism?
This is another way of saying the logic behind a point the writer is trying to make.
What is Reasoning?
This is the point of view/perspective most expository writings are in. It is when the author shows no bias toward one side or another.
What is Objective?
This is using someone else's work as your own and not giving credit to the actual author.
What is Plagiarizing (Cheating)?