Vocabulary
This adjective means "excessively permissive."
What is indulgent?
This desert in Africa is comparable in size to the United States.
What is the Sahara?
This term describes a writer’s position or opinion on a topic.
What is a claim?
This rhetorical device involves exaggerations for effect.
What is hyperbole?
A person who is self-obsessed might be called this.
What is a narcissist?
A common metaphor for something uncountable, these can be found in the Sahara.
What are grains of sand?
These are facts, statistics, or examples used to support a claim.
What is evidence?
Repeating words, phrases, or lines is known as this.
What is repetition?
This adjective describes something filled to capacity, unable to hold more.
What is saturated?
This term refers to infinite time or forever.
What is eternity?
These three types of appeals are commonly used in argument writing.
What are ethos, logos, and pathos?
A writer’s reliability, credibility, and bias can be determined through this type of analysis.
What is evaluating an argument?
This phrase means "strives toward" or "wants to be like."
What is aspires to?
The Sahara is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
This type of device uses repeated grammatical structures to persuade.
What is parallelism?
When analyzing an argument, this term describes reasoning that connects evidence to a claim.
What is clear reasoning?
This noun refers to close friendship and familiarity.
What is intimacy?
The Sahara is known as the world’s largest ___ desert.
What is hot?
To do this, analyze reasoning and evidence to determine how well they support a claim.
What is trace and evaluate an argument?
Recognizing this can reveal why an author wants to persuade a specific audience.
What is the author’s purpose?