This is the art of speaking and writing persuasively.
What is rhetoric?
100
“If you actually want to hear about it, what I’d better do is…warn you right now that you aren’t going to believe it. I mean it’s a true story and all, but it still sounds sort of phony.”
What is Catch Her in the Oatmeal?
100
Have a point
What is a step from writing a narration?
100
There are good and bad elements about growing old.
What is "The View From Eighty"
100
Replacing an offensive term or word with a softer, more acceptable one.
What is a Euphemism?
200
The sentence which controls the essay.
What is a thesis?
200
“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that,”
What is Shame?
200
Focus on a dominant impression.
What is Description advice?
200
Pressuring kids about beliefs and religion can lead to disillusionment in them
What is "Salvation"?
200
The mental and emotional associations that we have of a word.
What is Connotation?
300
This side of the brain that gives you the ability to perceive and express the qualities of languages, such as word images, rhythms, reoccurring patterns, and metaphors.
What is Right Brain?
300
“Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see.”
What is Is there a Santa Claus?
300
Insert appropriate details
What is a step from writing a narration?
300
A man realizes time and changes in life are constantly occurring and cannot be avoided after watching his son.
What is “Once More to the Lake”
300
This English is chiefly spoken and is the everyday language of people not much influenced by school.
What is Non-Standard English?
400
This English is more often spoken that written. It is typically used in casual conversation, diaries, personal writing, and journals.
What is Informal English?
400
“It is also an axiom that the more time a woman spends on herself, the less she has for others and the less desirable she is to others.”
What is Stay Young?
400
Suicide is not a final act; it has pervasive never-ending consequences.
What is "The Grieving Never Ends"?
400
The attitude the writer takes toward a subject.
What is Tone?
500
What the reader sees as the individual characteristics of a writer; this is “what comes out to the reader.”
What is style
500
“I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved.”
What is Salvation?
500
Evaluate Evidence
What is Guidelines for Critical Thinking?
500
Poverty is a disease that can destroy a child irreparably.
What is Shame?
500
An indirect reference to a historical or literary person, place, thing, or event.