Unit 1
What is a Central Idea?
is an overarching message or truth that is specific to a text.
What is Rhetoric?
Rhetoric is another name for the art of persuasion
What do structural elements help the reader do?
Structural elements such as sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and sections, can help a reader to comprehend a text’s main idea or claim.
How do you determine the theme of the text?
The theme of a text can be determined from the text’s topic.
What is a claim?
the primary statement that is to be proved through the presentation of an argument.
Why Is Textual Evidence Important?
It is important because it is specific information found within a reading that is used to support claims and analysis of that text
Why do authors use simple sentences?
Authors use simple sentences to present information in a matter-of-fact way.
Read the sentence from “Plastics.”
Plastics can enter into the marine environment a number of ways: through ineffective or improper waste management, intentional or accidental dumping and littering on shorelines or at sea, or through storm water runoff.
Now look at the information on the “Plastics in the Ocean” infographic.
Both sources describe how plastics end up in the ocean. How does the information provided in the article differ from that in infographic?
The article uses text only to describe ways plastics enter the ocean. The infographic shows how plastics enter the ocean using illustrations supported by headings and text descriptions.
What is an allusion?
An allusion is an indirect reference to a person, object, event, or literary work that is widely recognized.
What is a premise?
an idea or assumption that is accepted as true and used as the basis of an argument from which a conclusion the logical decision or judgment is then drawn.
Why Include Evidence?
Evidence gives additional power to the point authors are making or to the claim being argued.
What does figurative language and nuance do?
Figurative language and nuance give the author the power to expand meanings and to create vivid and meaningful notions in the minds of readers.
When do authors use ethos?
When authors emphasize their own credibility to convince the audience of the claim
What is it called when authors juxtapose words or ideas, or place them in relation to each other?
antithesis
What is a seminal United States text?
is a foundational document that provides readers with information that has some kind of historical impact or significance regarding the formation and development of the United States.
The concept of going dark, as defined in the article “Going Dark,” means _[blank]_ when it comes to intercepting and accessing data from technology.
Which option correctly completes the sentence?
that the FBI has legal authority but not technical ability.
What special vocabulary is terms that are commonly used in academic disciplines, such as English, the social sciences, mathematics, and the sciences?
academic vocabulary
What do rhetorical appeals contribute?
power to an argument by focusing on the specific emotions, beliefs, and opinions of the audience.
What is a Metaphor?
is a comparison that says or implies that one thing is another without using “like” or “as.”
A court’s legal decision should always be based on _[blank]_.
reasoning
Read the sentence.
Jenny felt that the task before her—memorizing the meanings of 30 vocabulary words overnight—was insurmountable.
Which definition is correct for the word insurmountable as it is used in the sentence?
incapable of being mastered or overcome
Read the sentence.
The teenagers rushed to get their smartphones so that they could take pictures of their sand castle before the rising tide eradicated all traces of it.
Which word most precisely matches the meaning of eradicated as it is used in the sentence?
destroyed
If you used a thesaurus to look up an antonym of the word distraught, which words would you most likely find?
unperturbed
If you used a thesaurus to look up a synonym for the word encroach, which word would you likely find?
intrude
Does this sentence use a hyphen?
After Alphonse’s papers were misplaced, he had to re-sign the forms.
Yes