Appeals
A speaker shows they are trustworthy and credible by referencing their years of experience.
What is ethos?
A type of poem that lists a collection of people, places, things or ideas.
What is Catalog?
This punctuation mark can join two closely related independent clauses without using a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
The reason a reporter would report on a news segment.
What is to inform?
Graceful, stylish, or pleasing in simplicity.
What is elegant?
An advertisement shows starving children to make you feel guilty for not donating.
What is pathos?
Word that have the similar sounds but aren’t exact rhyme.
What is Slant Rhyme?
This type of sentence mistake happens when a dependent clause is written as if it were a full sentence.
What is a fragment?
The reason someone would write in a journal or diary.
What is to reflect?
Something relating to a recognized religious group or division.
What is denominational?
A scientist cites data and charts to back up her argument.
What is logos?
A type of poem that does not have a rhyme or meter.
What is Free Verse?
Using different sentence beginnings and structures helps improve this aspect of writing.
What is sentence variety?
The reason someone would write a story
What is to entertain?
A position that cannot be defended or justified is called this.
What is untenable?
A politician says “As a teacher and father, I understand your concerns.”
What is ethos?
Identify the italicized convention:
“I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air
Between the Heaves of Storm -”
What is paradox?
This error occurs when two independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation or a conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence?
The reason someone write an argumentative essay.
What is to persuade?
An overused phrase or idea that has lost its originality.
What is a cliché?
A commercial claims “4 out of 5 dentists recommend this toothpaste.”
What is logos?
Identify the italicized convention:
“All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
All distances of place however wide,
All distances of time, all inanimate forms,
All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds”
What is anaphora?
The missing mark in this sentence makes it unclear who owns the book: “The students books are on the desk.”
What is a possessive apostrophe?
In a short story detailing a child's adventure through a magical forest, the narrator's main purpose is.
What is to narrate?
A state where growth or progress stops and levels off.
What is a plateau?