Question | Answer |
Langston Hughes | Salvation
Black American Author
Theme: Church, Religion
Tone: Misunderstanding Child's View, Sermon |
George Orwell | A Hanging
Real Name: Eric Blair
British Novelist born in India
Known for Satire
Theme: Jail, Hanging
Tone: Sarcasm |
Rick Bragg | All Over but The Shouting
Former NY Times Reporter
Theme: Memoir - Final visit to dying father
Tone: Vivid details and rich dialogue |
Mark Twain | Two Ways of Seeing A River
Real Name: Samuel Clements
Theme: Steamboat, life experience
Tone: Metaphor, analogy |
Alice Walker | Am I Blue?
Theme: Horse
Tone: Comparison, contrast, analogy |
Experiences | Understanding of an object, thought or emotion through the senses or mind. |
Punctuation | The mark as a period, comma, and parentheses to separate sentences and to clarify meaning. |
Analogy | Similarity to a comparison of an object
Resemblance (Ladder vs DNA strand) |
Emotion | Particular feeling to characterize the state of mind.
Joy, anger, love, horror, etc |
Metaphor | A simile when you compare something to an object or action.
He jumped like a rabbit. |
Theme | A key idea which an author wants the reader to get out of the writing
Title that introduces something. |
Narration | A story told to a group of people.
Tale. |
Thesis | A main idea of an essay, often written as a single declarative sentence.
1st sentence in an essay. |
Bruce Catton | Grant & Lee: A Study in Contrast
Tone: Contrast and comparison
Theme: General and soldiers, Rich and poor |
Gary Taubes | What If It's All Been A Big Fat Lie?
Theme: Obesity, Epidemic
Tone: Argument |
Joanna McKay | Organ Sales Will Save Lives
Theme: Sales of organ sold legally
Tone: Argument |
What are the 2 types of Argument are? | Logical and Persuasion
Logical - Reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or lie
Persuasion - Convince others to agree facts or accept an argument to a conclusion |
What are the 3 figures of speech? | Metaphor, Personification, Simile (MPS)
Metaphor- Comparison of 2 unlike things
Personification - Giving human characteristics to anything not human
Simile - Comparison of 2 unlike things |
What are the conjunctive adverbs? | However, Hence, Moreover, In Addition, On The Other Hand, Consequently, Nevertheless |
What are the 3 writing process to an essay? | 1) pre-writing - brainstorm ideas
2) writing - write 1st draft
3) re-writing - proof read and edit |
What are the coordinating conjunctions | For And Nor But Or Yet So (FANBOYS) |
What are the 2 Argument Essays? | Organ Sales Will Save Lives
What If It's Been A Big Fat Lie? |
What are the 2 Comparison/Contrast Essays? | Grant & Lee
Two Ways of Seeing A River |
Allusion | A brief indirect reference to a person, place, or event - real or fictional
(Blue for Sad) |
Comma Splice | A comma joining two independent clauses
Ex: It's half past five, we cannot reach town before dark. |
Tone | Author's emotional attitude toward the subject matter
Humor, anger, sadness, guilt, etc |
Grammar | A sentence that is constructed together. |
Imagery | Vivid language which appeals to the senses
vivid description of an item or way |
What are the 2 types of thesis? | Pro and Con
Pro - Positive statement to support a thesis
Con - Negative statement against a thesis |
What are the 4 Narrative essays? | Salvation
Am I Blue?
A Hanging
All Over But The Shouting |
Verbal Irony | Person says or writes one thing and means another
Sarcasm |