A common pattern using a specific case or general idea.
What is Example
100
Patterns of thought are _________ our minds use all the time.
What is Structures.
100
The author's voice.
What is Tone
100
Celebrities used to endorse a product.
What is Testimonial
100
Can be proven or verified by going to a reliable source.
What is Fact
200
A common pattern that looks for similarities and differences.
What is Compare and Contrast
200
A common pattern that explains the meaning of a word or idea.
What is Definition
200
Putting two and two together.
What is Infer
200
Everybody's doing it, you'll be left out if you don't join the crowd.
What is Bandwagon.
200
To suggest.
What is Imply
300
A common pattern of ideas in no particular order.
What is List
300
A common pattern that shows how a words or idea belongs as one type within a larger category.
What is Classification
300
When an author writes in a more relaxed way or uses informal language, he/she is writing to what kind of an audience?
What is General
300
A simplistic exaggeration is set up to represent the argument.
What is Straw Person
300
Cannot be proven or disproved but is open to debate.
What is Opinion
400
A common pattern that builds a point through storytelling
What is Narration
400
A common pattern that is sequential in nature and is used to give details in a certain order.
What is Order in Time or Space
400
The 3 reasons why we read and why an author writes.
What is Inform, Entertain and Persuade
400
Two things are compared as similar that are actually distinctly different.
What is Misleading Analogy.
400
A way of looking at something, your position on it, based on your experiences and beliefs.
What is Perspective
500
A common pattern that gives logical reasons that answer why or how.
What is Cause and Effect
500
Name 5 Patterns of Thought
What is Example, Compare/contrast, Listing, Narration, Cause and Effect, Definition, Classification, Order in Time or Space: Time Order, Process Order, Spatial Order
500
Give 5 adjective that describe tone.
What is Ironic, Critical, Funny, comical, Angry, Cheerful, Apologetic, etc.
500
The conclusion is supported by restating it.
What is Circular Reasoning
500
When something is stated in a neutral, free from emotional attachment to one side or another.
When an emotional involvement or a personal bias enters into a statement.