Vocabulary:
Unit 7
Unit 7
VERB: to make something appear/seem less important than it really is.
DOWNPLAY
You have already drunk a glass of wine. You ___________ drive.
SHOULD NOT / CANNOT/ MUST NOT
______(1)______ adjectives, describe an extreme or absolute state, whereas ______(2)______ adjectives are those that can have measurable levels of degree or intensity.
NON-GRADABLE and GRADABLE
Presenting facts and expert evidence in an essay is an example of ______.
Logos
“there it was again, large and black and ugly, with a big screen on which all the lessons were shown and the questions were asked.”
ASIMOV - MECHANICAL TEACHER
NOUN: 1) an essential supporting structure of a building, vehicle, or object. 2) a basic structure underlying a system, concept, or text.
FRAMEWORK
Tell your sister she ____ stay here tonight if she wants to.
CAN / COULD / MAY
True or False:
In speech or writing, English speakers often misuse adverbs of degree, mixing gradable and non gradable adjectives.
TRUE
Providing a well-written counterargument in an argument essay is an example of _______.
Ethos
[1] Robots cannot hurt humans [2] They must obey humans [3] They must protect themselves (as long as this doesn't conflict with the first two laws)
Asmiov- 3 Laws of Robotics
NOUN: 1) thing that motivates or encourages one to do something 2) a payment to stimulate greater output or investment.
INCENTIVE
"Teacher, _____ I leave early today?"
MAY
The words tiny, freezing, boiling, impossible, devastated are some examples of ____________ adjectives:
NON-GRADABLE
In an essay against abortion, a writer claims that "all women who have abortions are evil murderers." This is not appropriate because it uses very negative connotations, and thus does not consider ________.
Ethos
"Tiny people walked in forests, tiny faces loped through sun-speckled glades in beautiful shining pelts, and among the tiny trees flew little bits of high song and bright blue and yellow color, flying, flying, flying in that small sky."
BRADBURY - THE EMPEROR’S MACHINE
VERB: 1) to cause something happen. 2) to cause a device or machine to function. 3) to cause someone to do something. 4) to cause someone to be upset, typically as a result of feelings or memories associated with a particular traumatic experience.
TRIGGER
John _____ have taken your car keys. He hasn't even left the house.
CAN'T / COULDN'T
The words small, cold, hot, difficult, sad are some examples of ____________ adjectives:
GRADABLE
In an essay arguing that WWI was worse than WWII, a writer uses emotional descriptions of the horrible events written by people who experienced them, and statistics showing the percentage of people killed from each country. These are examples of ______ and _____.
Pathos and Logos
"Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior.... And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers."
BRADBURY - T-REX
PHRASE: to view something in a new or different way.
IN A NEW LIGHT
I ____ have left my wallet in the car. I can't find it anywhere in the house.
MUST
The adverbs R_ _ _ _ _, fairly, P_ _ _ _ _ , and quite can all be used with both gradable and non-gradable adjectives.
REALLY and PRETTY
In an essay about the death penalty, give an example of how a writer could use Logos, Ethos, and Pathos.
“Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap; roses sweeten the air, white hair turn Irish-black, wrinkles vanish; all, everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, suns rise in western skies and set in glorious easts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and everything returning to the fresh death, the seed death, the green death, to the time before the beginning.”
BRADBURY - TIME TRAVEL