EOC Power Words
Rhetorical Devices 1
Rhetorical Devices2
EOC Power Words 2
Grab Bag
100

The main thought or idea in a text

What is main or central idea?

100

A clue that is intended to be misleading or distracting

What is red herring?

100

An appeal to emotion

What is pathos?

100

A summary without personal opinion; summary based on just facts. 

What is an objective summary? 

100

What GRAD school did Mrs. Meyer get her Master's Degree?

What is ECU
200

The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic

What is author's purpose?

200

A device in which the speaker makes a brief reference to a historical or literary figure, speech, event, or document to apply symbolic meaning

What is allusion?

200

An appeal to ethics, convincing the audience of one's credibility. 

What is Ethos?

200

A summary with personal opinion.

What is subjective summary?

200

The Country that is being invaded by Russia

What is Ukraine? 

300

To examine something with great detail; typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation.

What is Analyze?

300
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose or criticize people's vices

What is satire?

300

An appeal to logic

What is Logos?

300

When an author states or asserts that something is the case, he/she is doing what?

What is a claim?

300

The way we format constructed responses.

What is ACES?

400

an author's deliberate use of hints or suggestions to give a preview of events or themes.

What is foreshadowing? 

400

A short or amusing story about a real incident or person

What is an anecdote ?

400

This is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure 

What is parallelism? 

400

To create or come up with a strategy or an idea

What is to formulate? 

400
This is how you get a 100 to replace a six weeks grade

What is get growth on the EOC?

500

An educated guess based on clues in the text

What is Infer?

500

The omission or absence or a conjunction between parts of sentences, but still making sense (...)

What is ellipsis? 

500

This is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses,

What is anaphora?

500

 To judge the value or condition of something or someone.

What is evaluate? 

500

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Who says this?

Who is Juliet?