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Identify the Author's Purpose: Feeling tight on cash? We've all been there. Here are some tips and tricks on how to pinch pennies to make your spending count. First off, have you ever thought of donating blood? You can donate up to 1 pint per month.
To Inform
Which prefixes mean "one"?
mono-, uni-
Identify the type of Logical Fallacy: If you were a true American, you would eat M&M’s like everyone else in the nation.
Ad Populum "bandwagon": Attacking someone's characteristics rather than their argument.
Identify the Type of Reasoning: We see fireflies in our backyard every summer, so we'll probably see fireflies there this summer as well.
Inductive Reasoning: Making a general conclusion based on specific observations.
This test is going to kill me!
Hyperbole: and extreme exaggeration
Identify the Author's Purpose: Did you know that your brain isn't fully developed until you turn 23? That's why it's important to avoid activities that can physically harm and alter your brain chemistry permanently.
To Persuade
Which prefixes mean many?
multi-, poly-
Identify the Logical Fallacy: If the government didn’t let Katy Perry go to space, eventually the government might ban all women from going to space.
Slippery Slope
Identify the type of reasoning: All humans use their brains to think. My students are human. Therefore, my students can use their brains to think!
Deductive Reasoning: using generally true ideas to reach a specific conclusion.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Idiom: a popular phrase where the meaning can't be derived from the words.
Identify the Author's Purpose: I used to have a job at a calendar factory, but I got fired because I took a couple of days off.
To Entertain
What prefixes mean before?
ante-, pre-
Identify the logical fallacy: Mrs. Stimmell is always on our case about cheating on quizzes, obviously she doesn't want us to pass her class.
Strawman: oversimplifying the situation.
Identify the type of reasoning: A student has all the correct answers on a test, but didn't create a study guide and keeps switching and hiding tabs using a secret keyboard shortcut. The student is definitely cheating.
Abductive Reasoning: incomplete observations that leads to the likeliest possible explanation.
Jonathan and Jason just threw juice at both Jaydens. Now, Joel, Jordi and Jeffrey are going to get justice!
Alliteration: repeating the same initial letter.
Identify the Author's Purpose: Memories begin as a result of the senses. The memory is then encoded, or stored, in your brain with electrical impulses and chemicals. Your brain is full of nerve cells. There are electrical pulses carrying messages from on cell to another.
To Inform
Name the prefixes meaning "extra/over" and "under/not enough".
Hyper- and hypo-
Identify the Logical Fallacy: Most potatoes are produced in Idaho, where Mrs. Stimmell is from, so she obviously eats a lot of potatoes.
Hasty Generalization: making a claim without enough evidence.
Identify the type of appeal: Recent studies show that students are more likely to be successful on test day if they eat breakfast in the morning. At least 82% of students in a poll said it improved their focus.
Logos: Appealing to logic like facts, statistics, and numbers.
Rhetorical Question: Asking something for dramatic purposes, not needing an answer.
Identify the Author's Purpose: "The Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted—nevermore!"
To Entertain
Name at least five prefixes which mean "not"?
il-, im-, in-, ir-, non-, un-, a-
Identify the Logical Fallacy: Doesn't Mrs. Stimmell have bigger problems to worry about rather than keeping track of student tardies? What about students being on their cell phones?
Red Herring: distracting from the original issue.
Identify the type of appeal: Teachers can help curate student dreams. Just look at Kendrick Lamar, he credits his English teacher for helping him achieve his dream of becoming a rapper by allowing him to be creative in class.
Ethos: Appeal to credibility like a celebrity endorsement.
I tried to get some decent rest for the big test, but the moon kept playing hide and seek with the clouds and the wind constantly made tree branches knock on my window.
Personification: assigning human qualities to nonhuman things.