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Argument Essay
Veteran's Day
Vocabulary
Keynote Address
Misc.
100
Ethos, pathos, and logos
What are the 3 rhetorical devices?
100
He was shot down while on a bombing mission over Vietnam in October 1967.
Who is John Sidney McCain?
100
Descriptive or figurative language language used to create word pictures.
What is imagery?
100
Land of Lincoln
What is Illinois?
100
Singing
What is the metaphor for working in "I Hear America Singing"?
200
A sentence that tells the reader what your essay will be about.
What is a thesis statement?
200
The title of the essay about patriotism.
What is "Veteran's Day: Never Forget Their Duty"?
200
A figure of speech that gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
What is personification?
200
The author of the "Keynote Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention"
Who is Barack Obama?
200
Langston Hughes
Who wrote "I,Too, Sing America"?
300
Spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar
What are conventions in an essay?
300
At 17 he enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
Who is Mike Christian?
300
To define by showing relevant and specific examples.
What is exemplification?
300
A government benefit that gives veterans money for education.
What is the G. I. Bill?
300
Another name for the Statue of Liberty.
What is the New Colossus or Mother of Exiles?
400
The sentence that introduces the main idea of a paragraph
What is a topic sentence?
400
Every afternoon the Vietnam POWs would say the Pledge of Allegiance to this.
What is Mike's shirt.
400
The way a literary work is organized.
What is structure?
400
Blue states
What are Republican States?
400
A torch.
What does the Statue of Liberty hold that represents freedom?
500
The reasoning used to disprove an opposing point.
What is a refutation?
500
McCain said this about the thousands of Americans who sacrificed for our country.
What must we never forget?
500
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or vice -versa.
What is a synecdoche?
500
Out of many,one.
What is E pluribus unum?
500
The unique promise that America has promised immigrants and residents for nearly 400 years.
What is the American Dream?