Persuasive Writing
A sentence that road map to your paper that tells the reader the purpose and position and provides two reasons why.
What is the thesis?
Winters is coming.
What is: Winter is coming?
A group of lines that form a unit of poetry.
What is stanza?
1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient
What is point of view?
Non-literal language: similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, irony, symbolism, etc.
What is figurative language?
A persuasive appeal that provides expert opinion.
What is ethos?
Its their job to let us know if the games have been rained out.
What is change --Its to It's? It's their job to let us know if the games have been rained out.
Poetry that does not have a regular rhyme or meter.
What is free verse?
The author's attitude toward his or her subject.
What is the tone?
A change in the mood, tone, or subject matter.
What is shift?
The last paragraph of your paper.
What is the conclusion?
The toddlers behaved much more agreeable after their naps.
What is change more agreeable to more agreeably? The toddlers behaved much more agreeably after their naps.
Rhyme that occurs within the line itself.
What is internal rhyme?
The underlying message or universal truth behind the story.
What is theme?
Written conversations in a literary work
What is dialogue?
A persuasive appeal that evokes emotion.
What is pathos?
Words or phrases to provide adequate segues between paragraphs.
What is transition words or phrases?
A poem's rhythm; the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that create this rhythm.
What is meter?
Word choice (extremely beneficial when trying to figure out the tone of a piece)
What is diction?
The person the reader is supposed to imagine is talking -- the voice in the poem (NOT NECESSARILY THE POET/AUTHOR).
What is the speaker?
First sentence of each body paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
If you want to become famous.
What is a fragment?
Placing two elements or words with contrasting meanings side by side to create an effect.
What is juxtaposition?
The reason that an author writes a piece. What types are there?
What is author's purpose: to entertain, to explain, to persuade, to express feelings?
Another word for drawing conclusions, looking for what "isn't there" in a text
What is inference, inferencing?