Essay Structure
What two things go in the introduction?
Truism and Thesis Statement
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
Simile
The feeling a reader gets from a literary work
Mood
What kind of sentence is the following sentence?
The dog ran away.
Simple Sentence
What is pathos?
A rhetorical appeal to the emotions
What is the most important part of your essay?
Thesis Statement
Comparison not using "like" or "as"
Metaphor
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
What is a sentence with two independent clauses connected with a FANBOY?
Compound Sentence
An appeal to a person's credibility or ethics.
Ethos
These two options are used for the conclusion:
_______ Statement
Call to _______
Thematic Statement
Call to Action
Language used to "create a picture" for the reader in a literary work
Imagery
The dictionary definition or literal meaning of a word
Denotation / Denotative Meaning
What is a sentence with one dependent and two independent clauses connected with a FANBOY?
Compound-Complex Sentence
The following is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
According to research done at Stanford University, 98% of farts stink.
Logos
Topic Sentence
Giving human traits to non-human things
Personification
When you have certain associations or emotional ties to a word
Connotation / Connotative Meaning
What kind of sentence is the following sentence?
Kate doesn’t like cartoons because they are loud.
Complex Sentence
The following is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
Don't be the last person on the block to have their lawn treated - you don't want to be the laughing stock of your community!
Pathos
What are each of the elements of the acronym GET HELP?
Government
Education
Today
History
Entertainment
Literature
Personal
An exaggerated statement
Hyperbole
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
A
A
B
B
C
C
D
D
What kind of sentence is the following sentence?
The dog started barking so the cat ran away and I couldn’t keep up, so I stopped.
Compound-Complex Sentence
Convince me using all three appeals to give you a 100 for a semester grade.
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