Synthesis
Create an parenthetical citation for the following website:
Author(s): Unknown
Date of publication: April 13, 2023
Title of webpage: "The Impact of the Twilight Series on Young Adult Literature"
Website Name: Bookworm's Corner
URL: https://www.bookwormscorner.com/twilight-impact-on-ya-lit
What is ("The Impact of")?
The following quote is an example of which rhetorical choice/device: "He was ten inches long, thin as a curve, a muscled ribbon, brown as fruitwood, soft-furred, alert. His face was fierce, small and pointed as a lizard’s; he would have made a good arrowhead. There was just a dot of chin, maybe two brown hairs’ worth, and then the pure white fur began that spread down his underside" (Dillard 1-2).
What is imagery?
This is an example of which rhetorical device: "
“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,”
What is apostrophe?
This is one kind of dependent clause. It has a subject and verb, but can’t stand alone as a sentence. It always begins with specific pronoun.
Ex. "They caught Nolan who spied for China."
What is a relative clause?
In American football, this is the maximum number of players allowed on the field for a team at any given time during a play.
What is 11?
This is the number of the least amount of sources students need to incorporate in a synthesis free response question.
What is 3?
The tone of this excerpt is this: "I groaned as I stared at the invitation to yet another party. The idea of putting on a fake smile, making small talk with people I barely know, and pretending to have a good time felt exhausting. These gatherings always seemed more like obligatory social rituals than genuine opportunities for enjoyment. This party was going to be a disaster."
What is pessimistic/cynical/something similar?
Identify the rhetorical device in this common idiom:
"From the cradle to the grave"
What is metonymy?
Identify the antecedent(s) in the following sentence:
Ronald likes burgers, but the other cousins like chicken sandwiches, so he went to Shake Shack, and they went to Popeye’s.
Ronald AND cousins are the antecedents.
This Netflix series, based on a novel by Julia Quinn, follows the lives of a family in Regency-era London.
What is Bridgerton?
Of the six-seven written sources, at least one to two of them are this type/format.
What is a graphic or visual?
Refers to the set of rules that govern the structure of sentences in a language. It involves the arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses to create well-formed sentences.
What is syntax?
The following is an example of this rhetorical device: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us..."
What is antithesis?
Lewis and Clark finally made it to the Pacific coast, after bitter winters and a close call with the Sioux Indians is this type of sentence. (Loose, Balanced, or Periodic)
What is a loose sentence?
In American football, this is the term for a play in which the ball is advanced by a player carrying it
What is a running play?
This is the correct format for citing an image.
Note on the AP Exam (Source B) is acceptable.
What is creator last name, first name. “Image Title.” or Description of image. Website Name, Day Month Year, URL?
When you find out that your pulmonologist (lung doctor) smokes is an example of this literary technique.
What is irony?
This is an example of which rhetorical device: "Take thy face hence" (Shakespeare).
What is synecdoche?
With a blood-curdling scream and claws outstretched, the eagle went after the rabbit is what type of sentence (Loose, Balanced, or Periodic)
What is a periodic sentence?
This law of physics states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass.
What is Newton's Second Law of Motion?
Paraphrase the following: "One of the key aspects of the Twilight series is its exploration of the themes of love, identity, and belonging. Bella's journey to discover her place in the world, torn between her love for Edward and her friendship with the werewolf Jacob, resonated with readers of all ages."
What is the Twilight series explores themes of love, identity, and belonging through Bella's struggle to find her place between her feelings for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, connecting with readers despite their ages? OR something similar
"Then leaf subsides to leaf./So Eden sank to grief,/So dawn goes down to day./Nothing gold can stay."
Frost uses this device.
What is the use of allusions? (Eden from the Bible)
This is an example of which rhetorical device: "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
What is isocolon?
Fix the dangling modifier: Fumbling in her purse, the keys could not be found.
What is-Fumbling in her purse, she could not find the keys. OR
As she fumbled in her purse, the keys could not be found?
This concept in calculus represents the rate at which one quantity changes with respect to another.
What is a derivative?