Argumentative Writing
An argumentative essay is THIS many paragraphs
What is 5?
commentary spoken to explain, inform, and offer opinions about the subject to the audience
What is a narrator?
How does Lady Macbeth help kill Duncan?
What is She gets the guards drunk and plants the daggers witth blood on them.
the author's main point or message about a topic or idea. A text can have one or more
What is central idea?
Stating the opposite opinion
What is a rebuttal?
What is an interview?
What does Macbeth do to the supposed murderers and why?
What is He kills them in fury. He claims that in his great fury he killed them without thinking.
repeating images or ideas, symbols, repeated words, repeated feelings, big challenges, figurative language, and character lessons are all ways to determine THIS
To state that something is true
What is a claim or thesis?
This can be used to create drama, appeal to emotions, and enhance the realism of a place or the description of the event
What are music and sound?
THESE CHARACTERS greet Macbeth as Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and as future King.
What is the witches?
an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.
What is a precedent?
Ethos, Pathos, Logos?
the use of evidence and reasoning to persuasively support a claim. For example, a speaker claims that "teen pregnancy has decreased in the last five years" by citing studies that show a significant decrease in teenage pregnancy.
Logos
How does Lady Macbeth motivate Macbeth to murder Duncan?
What is appealing to his ambition and manhood?
documents are those that have influenced the nation and provided a basis for its further development. states an opinion on a topic
What is a seminal document?
Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
Appeal to Emotions
For example, many of us have seen the ASPCA commercials that use photographs of injured puppies, or sad-looking kittens, and slow, depressing music to emotionally persuade their audience to donate money.
What is pathos?
the close placement of two images or scenes in order to compare and contrast or show a relationship
What is juxtaposition?
What theme is highlighted through Lady Macbeth's manipulation of Macbeth to murder Duncan?
What ambition, greed, power, corrupting influence