From the Speeches
They're the six rules an author created to combat vague writing.
What are Orwell's rules?
It supports evidence.
What is commentary?
The part of the essay that orients the reader.
What is the introduction?
The part of a paragraph that everything else supports. Also a claim.
What is the topic sentence?
It's the (erroneous) use of a comma to join together two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
The type of evidence Booker T. Washington built two thirds of "The Atlanta Exposition Address" around.
What is an Anecdote?
It's the AP principle of evidence.
What is "Anything external with which you can prop up your argument?"
What is a method of Development?
They're the three levels that coherence works at.
What are text, paragraph, and sentence?
It's the weaker verb voice that writers of all stripes abuse relentlessly.
What is passive voice?
This famous speech is known primarily for its repetition sequences.
What is "I have a Dream?"
They're the three rhetorical appeals.
What are Ethos, Logos, and Pathos?
It does okay as an overall structure, but it's too generalised.
What is the 5-paragraph essay?
The key to learning, also a way to emphasise an idea and preserve coherence.
What is repetition?
It's the happy medium between too much and too little.
What is the Aristotelian mean?
The Primary Method of Development Bush uses in the 9/11 speech.
What is Problem-Solution?
What is Kairos?
The phrases and sentences that work between ideas and help both the line of reasoning and coherence.
What are transitional elements?
The overall "feel" of a speech or essay, which needs to be consistent to preserve coherence.
What is tone?
What is "Clear, concise, correct?"
It's the device Chesterton uses throughout his essay on cheese (other than anecdote) to humorously illustrate his point.
What is hyperbole?
They're the three criteria for evidence.
What are authoritative, relevant, and convincing?
It's the term for using similar sentence structures in close proximity to link concepts together.
What is parallelism?
This fact is the ugly truth of sentence coherence.
What is that it's the same as English Grammar?
It's the term for "sounding good," and should never be your sole goal as an honest rhetorician.
What is Euphony?