Author's Purpose
Even though the majority of people know about the dangers of eating food from McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, and similar places, they still go there. The factors causing such behavior should be analyzed separately. Instead, this paper focuses on the reasons why you should quit eating fast food as soon as possible.
What is to Persuade?
The rhetorical appeal that uses facts, statistics, logic, and reasoning to persuade.
What is Logos?
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
She ran like a gazelle
What is a simile?
The beginning sentence of an essay that persuades the reader to keep reading the essay.
What is the Hook?
The footsteps were coming closer. I knew I had to get out of there fast. Looking desperately around, I finally spotted a small window at the end of the room, a beacon of light in the dark, rancid basement. I sprinted and leapt up to grab a ceiling pipe. Thankfully, the pipe was close enough to the window to allow me to swing my body through. My enemy was making his way down the hall, bursting open door after door. I needed to break through this window in two tries to make it out in time.
What is To Entertain?
The rhetorical appeal that uses the values or the emotions of the audience.
What is Pathos?
The emotional and imaginative associations with a word.
What is connotation?
His life is an open book.
What is a metaphor?
These paragraphs make up the bulk of an essay.
What are Body Paragraphs?
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
What is To Express Personal Thoughts/Feelings?
A Coca-Cola ad shows a family enjoying Coca-Cola products at a BBQ.
What is Pathos?
Organized, clean, tidy, neat.
(Positive or Negative connotation?)
What is/are positive connotations?
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
This Paragraph ends the essay.
What is a Conclusion Paragraph?
Instructions
What is To Inform/Explain?
A Dentist recommends Colgate for his patients.
What is Ethos?
She was a very bossy manager.
What is a negative connotation?
Many mumbling mice are making music in the moonlight.
What is alliteration?
This sentence introduces the subject of each body paragraph.
What is a Topic Sentence?
You just finished reading a political speech by a well-known politician who spoke about the need for everyone to do his/her part to conserve water.
What is To Persuade?
A Toyota Prius advertisements demonstrates that it can go 500 miles on one tank.
What is Logos?
The hyper dog ran around the yard like a maniac.
What is negative connotation?
The dog barked at the squirrel in the tree.
What is onomatopoeia.
This sentence introduces your main argument and its supporting points. It is also the last sentence of the Introduction Paragraph.
What is a Thesis Statement?