The number of passages you will have to read and answer questions over...
What is 4 or 5?
100
The interpretive level (implied meaning) of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning.
What is Connotation?
100
Acknowledging and responding to real or possible opposing views
What is a counter-argument?
100
The difference between the synthesis essay and the argument essay.
What is using the provided sources?
100
The three basic rhetorical appeals.
What are logos, ethos, and pathos?
200
This is how you figure the amount of time you have for each passage and its questions
What is counting the number of questions for the passage and giving approximately one minute per question?
200
The way that words are arranged within sentences - also known as sentence structure.
What is syntax?
200
The task on the argument prompt will ultimately ask you to do one of these three things, though it may not be worded this way.
What is defend, challenge, or qualify?
200
The acronym for remembering the factors possibly related to each source.
Hint: money, safety, etc.
What is $SEEITT?
200
SOAPS
What is subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and speaker?
300
A strategy to use when you've narrowed down the possible answers to two choices and can't decide which is correct
What is educated guessing?
300
This rhetorical strategy refers to a writer's word choices and helps to create tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning.
What is Diction?
300
The type of evidence (no matter what subject you're pulling it from) that should be used to support your position in your argument essay.
What is specific and weighty evidence?
300
Anytime you use information from a source, whether directly quoted or paraphrased, you must do this.
What is properly citing the sources?
300
The author's choices in his/her use of diction, syntax, details, imagery, tone, etc. makes up his/her ______.
What is the author's style?
400
A strategy to aid with understanding of the passage, whether as a whole or per paragraph
What is noting the main idea of each paragraph?
400
The author's attitude or feelings toward his/her subject of writing.
What is tone?
400
If using a piece of literature to support your argument, you should ...
What is using one specific moment, or zooming in on one specific moment?
400
Always do this after incorporating source information into your argument
What is explaining the significance behind the evidence (its relation to your argument)?
400
The introduction of a rhetorical analysis essay should include all of these.
What is the context, TAG, and thesis?
500
A strategy for saving time when answering the questions over a passage
What is marking the line in the passage where I found the answer (after each question)?
500
The one thing you should never leave a body paragraph without...
states the main idea of the paragraph or the claim/point you will be making in that paragraph
What is a topic sentence?
500
Always provide the "So what??"
What is adding explanation, commentary, and analysis to my examples?
500
This is what I should do after reading each source during the 15 minute reading period.
What is noting the argument/position of each source as well as identifying useful information?
500
The one thing you have to do when discussing an author's strategies in a passage.
What is explaining the effect of the strategy and how the strategy creates said effect?