This compares two unlike things (not using like or as).
Ex: She was my rock.
What is a metaphor?
100
This piece of text is used to support a response.
What is text evidence?
100
A "standard" essay usually has this many paragraphs.
What is five?
100
This is when the author attacks a person, rather than the issue.
Ex: If you support abortion, you are a baby killer.
What is an ad hominem fallacy?
200
This allows readers to continue thinking about the text after they finish reading.
What is the clencher?
200
This is when a nonhuman object is given human characteristics.
Ex: Stars dancing in the night's sky.
What is personification?
200
This tests the reader's comprehension by reading between the lines and discovering what the author is implying.
What is an inference?
200
The first paragraph of an essay is called this.
What is an introduction?
200
This is when the author suggests there are only two choices when more are available.
Ex: Either you're for the legalization of marijuana or against it.
What is an either/or fallacy?
300
A "standard" essay should have at least this many subpoints as topics for the body paragraphs.
What is three?
300
This is when the actual outcome contradicts what was expected by the reader.
Ex: A mild-mannered, upstanding citizen turning out to be a serial killer.
What is irony?
300
This is another word to refer to the author's overall position or purpose for writing. It's what the author believes to be true.
What is a claim?
300
The first sentence of the conclusion should do this.
What is restate the thesis statement?
300
This is when the author makes a poor comparison between things that may not have a strong connection.
Ex: The death penalty is the government being a serial killer.
What is a weak or false analogy?
400
In order to offer the best support, an author should use text evidence in the form of this from other texts.
What are quotes?
400
This is the author's attitude or emotion presented within a text.
Ex: A priest speaking passionately about the need for good works.
What is tone?
400
This is how a reader determines if an author's argument is effective.
What is evaluating the argument?
400
These signal to the reader that the author is moving onto a new idea or thought.
What are transitions?
400
This is when the author makes an assumption about the whole group based on a small sample within the group.
Ex: All guys are pigs.
What is a hasty generalization?
500
This fairly long sentence suggests the author's position or argument.
What is the thesis statement?
500
Descriptive language that creates an image in the reader's mind is often referred to as this.
Ex: The eerie silence was shattered by her scream.
What is imagery?
500
This is when events are arranged in the order in which they occurred.
Ex: 1910, 1931, 1956, 1981, 2017
What is chronological order?
500
The thesis statement can usually be found here.
What is the last sentence of the first paragraph?
500
This is when an author starts off with something small and suggests it will lead to something major without sufficient evidence or proof.
Ex: If we allow refugees into the United States, then we might as well invite all the terrorists.