Persuasive Essay
What is the last sentence of your introduction?
A. Hook statement
B. Thesis statement
C. Bridge statement
D. Two reasons
B. Thesis statement
Identify the sentence type:
The student walked to class.
A. Compound
B. Complex
C. Compound-Complex
D. Simple
D. Simple
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
A. Allusion
B. Allegory
C. Foreshadowing
D. Diction
C. Foreshadowing
Read sentences 17 and 18 that are pulled from a short excerpt.
(17) The colonists refused to buy stamps. (18) They were determined to get the Stamp Act repealed.
What is the most effective way to combine sentences 17 and 18?
A. The colonists refused to buy stamps and they were determined to get the Stamp Act repealed.
B. The colonists refused to buy stamps, and they were determined to get the Stamp Act repealed.
C. The colonists refused to buy stamps, and were determined to get the Stamp Act repealed.
D. The colonists refused to buy stamps, were determined to get the Stamp Act repealed.
B. The colonists refused to buy stamps, and they were determined to get the Stamp Act repealed.
An author’s ____ is the opinion, position, claim, or belief that the author wants to persuade or convince the reader to believe or accept.
Purpose
Which of the following are hook strategies that we've learned in class?
A. Baby sentences, three simple words, and re-stating the prompt.
B. Three simple words, re-stating the prompt, analyzing the quote.
C. Personal anecdote, baby sentences, and an imagine statement.
D. Imagine statement, creating a simile or metaphor, and using the quote from the prompt.
C. Personal anecdote, baby sentences, and an imagine statement.
Identify the sentence type:
I like tea, and he likes coffee.
A. Compound
B. Complex
C. Compound-Complex
D. Simple
A. Compound
The sentence, "Time is a thief" is representative of which type of figurative language.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Symbolism
D. Allusion
B. Metaphor
Read sentence 29:
(29) The people hung 280 lanterns on the tree’s branches and the lanterns began lighting up the night sky.
What change should be made to sentence 29?
A. Change 280 to two-hundred-eighty
B. Change tree’s to trees
C. Add a comma after branches
D. Change night to nightly
C. Add a comma after branches
The writer’s attitude toward a subject or an audience is called ____.
Tone
What should your thesis statement contain?
A. Your position with one reason.
B. Your reasons.
C. Your position with two or more reasons.
D. Your position.
C. Your position with two or more reasons.
Identify the sentence type:
Though Mitchell prefers watching romantic films, he rented the latest spy thriller, and he enjoyed it very much.
A. Compound.
B. Complex
C. Compound-Complex
D. Simple
C. Compound-Complex
Identify which type of figurative language is being used in the following sentence:
The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads.
A. onomatopoeia
B. personification
C. simile
D. metaphor
B. personification
A word or phrase used to help move the reader from one sentence or idea to another is called a ____.
A. Thesis
B. Transition
C. Diction
D. Hook
B. Transition
When an object, character, or event is referenced in a text and is meant to represent something more significant or important than itself, that object, person, or event is being used by the author as a(n) ____.
Symbol
What should you include in each paragraph after the introduction?
A. A reason, example, and analysis.
B. A topic sentence with your reason, an example, and an analysis of what you wrote.
C. Example and analysis.
D. Your reason with an example to support.
B. A topic sentence with your reason, an example, and an analysis of what you wrote.
Identify the sentence type:
We won the game, but my uniform was muddy because it rained the entire time.
A. Compound
B. Complex
C. Compound-Complex
D. Simple
C. Compound-Complex
Identify which type of figurative language is being used in the following sentence:
The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains.
A. metaphor
B. hyperbole
C. idiom
D. simile
D. simile
Which change needs to be made to the sentence below?
When I am sixteen I am going to get my license.
A. Change sixteen to 16
B. Add a comma after sixteen
C. Change license to lisense
D. Change my to a
B. Add a comma after sixteen
An author may choose to use first-person, second-person, third-person limited, or third-person omniscient as the ____ in a text.
point of view
The most important sentence in a paragraph is the ____ because it expresses the main idea of the paragraph.
A. Introductory phrase
B. Hook
C. Topic sentence
D. Bridge
C. Topic sentence
Identify the sentence type:
Since the soup was too cold, I warmed it in the microwave.
A. Compound
B. Complex
C. Compound-Complex
D. Simple
Complex
Identify the literary device.
A statement that is used to express an opposite meaning than the one literally expressed by it.
A. Paradox
B. Symbolism
C. Imagery
D. Irony
D. Irony
Which change needs to be made to the sentence below?
I simply cannot wait to get there!
A. Change there to their
B. Change cannot to can't
C. No change needed
D. Change the exclamation point to a period
C. No change needed
An author can persuade a person using the rhetorical triangle, what are the terms used to convince others of an argument?
Ethos, pathos, and logos.