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100
Name the following sound device: Strips of tinfoil winking like people.
What is assonance?
100
the source's credibility, the speaker's/author's authority
What is ethos?
100
This stage involves reviewing the topic/audience and all available evidence. It also involves determing your thesis statement and your supporting "big ideas." It involves organizing the points of your argument and your evidence.
What is stage 1, planning, in the writing process?
100
Clues provided by the author about what's going to happen.
What is foreshadowing?
100
A __________ examines and discusses a focused topic, often including the writer's personal viewpoint.
What is an essay?
200
Name the following figurative language: The engine had a hard time waking up on cold mornings.
What is personification
200
 Stories or testimonials  Personal anecdotes or stories  Personal connections  Visual images or words that inspire you to empathize or have compassion towards the idea/topic
What is pathos?
200
The main argument of an essay. It is the last sentence in the introduction.
What is a thesis statement?
200
The main conflict in a story revolves around this.
What is the plot?
200
__________ is the particular way a writer uses language.
What is style?
300
Name this form of poetry: There once was a fellow named Tim whose dad never taught him to swim. He fell off a dock and sunk like a rock. And that was the end of him.
What is a limerick?
300
Read the example and determine which fallacy it is. A prosecutor asks the judge to not admit the testimony of a burglar because burglars are not trustworthy.
What is an Argumentum ad hominem fallacy? (You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument.)
300
Introduction (thesis is the last sentence) Supporting Paragraphs (with evidence using Logos, Ethos, or Pathos). Conclusion (with a clinching statement).
What are the parts of an essay?
300
The two different ways an author can describe their character and their corresponding definitions.
What are direct characterization -- when the author directly tells you about a character. indirect characterization -- when the author shows the character through Speech, Thoughts, Effects on others, Actions, Looks.
300
___________ is the author's attitude toward both the subject and the readers/listeners.
What is tone?
400
This type of poetry has 2 major forms -- the Italian and the English. It is a concise expression of poetical style and has only 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
400
Read the example and determine which fallacy it is. "Dear Friend, a man who has studied law to its highest degree is a brilliant lawyer, for a brilliant lawyer has studied law to its highest degree."
What is a Petitio Principia fallacy? (Circular Reasoning-begging the question: the fallacy of assuming as a premiss a statement which has the same meaning as the conclusion.)
400
This process is in separate stages because it helps you stay organized, and it also helps prevent you from wasting your time and energy. It focuses your efforts.
What is the importance of the separate stages in the writing process?
400
The perspective a story is written from might be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.
What are the different types of point of view?
400
_____________ is the author's reason for writing. Common _____________ are to inform, to persuade, to entertain.
What is purpose?
500
Name the following poetic term: A long, narrative poem written in formal, elegant language that tells a series of quests undertaken by a great hero.
What is an epic?
500
Read the example and determine which fallacy it is. The picture on Jim's old TV set goes out of focus. Jim goes over and strikes the TV soundly on the side and the picture goes back into focus. Jim tells his friend that hitting the TV fixed it.
What is a Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy? (This fallacy is committed when it is concluded that one event causes another simply because the proposed cause occurred before the proposed effect.)
500
1. plan 2. rough draft 3. Revision 4. Editing 5. Publish the Final Draft
What is the writing process?
500
The five elements of a plot and their corresponding definitions.
What are: exposition -- intro to characters and background of story; rising action -- the events that build to the climax; climax -- highest point of emotional involvement in a story (the turning point); falling action -- occurs after the climax and before the resolution; resolution -- the end of the story where the problems are resolved or deemed unable to be resolved.
500
_____________ occurs when a writer makes a one-sided presentation.
What is bias?