Mid-term Review Flashcards
Identify the purposes for writing (three categories)
Expressive, Expository, and Persuasive
List the steps of the writing process
Planning Pre-Writing Shaping Drafting Revising Editing
Identify at least two pre-writing activities
Free write, Loop List Cluster Cube Question Outline Letter writing Discovery draft Review notes and annotations Keep a journal or notebook
What should a thesis be?
Suitable, Specific, and Significant
What should a thesis not be?
An announcement, a fact, or an overly general or narrow statement
What is a topic sentence?
A sentence that expresses the main idea of each paragraph
Define narration
Storytelling
What is meant by the term “narrative point”
The perspective through which a story is communicated. It usually functions as a thesis.
Define dramatic license
The authors ability to determine what is included and what is omitted in a writing
Define chronological order
The arrangement of things following one another in time
Define reverse chronological
The arrangement of things from latest to earliest
What are time markers
Time markers are dates and/or times that help the reader follow a sequence of events
What are transitions? (Provide examples)
Transitions help readers move from thought to thought.
Examples on pg 349
Define flashback
Interruptions that writers do to insert past events, in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative
Explain why dialogue is used and how it is incorporated, along with benefits.
Dialogue is what a person said in quotations and when you change speakers you change paragraphs.
Dialogue is used to introduce someone fully and establish relationships.
Define subjective and objective descriptions
Objective descriptions attempt to be uncolored by personal opinion or emotion. (Like police reports and news writing)
Subjective descriptions allow the writer’s opinions and emotions to come through
Define vantage point
A position or standpoint from which something is viewed/described. It determines what you can perceive.
Be familiar with memoir characteristics - identify the two goals
Goals:
- The capture an important moments
- To convey something about it’s significance for us
Be familiar with memoir characteristic - identify key features
Key Features:
- A memoir should be interesting to you and others. Doesn’t have to be life-altering but most feature a situation or problem that needs resolution(another name for suspense)
- Give readers mental images of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures of your memoir’s world. Show as well as tell. Don’t make it a report. Bring the events to life.
- Convey something about the significance of its subject. Don’t tell why the incident was significant, reveal what it means to you.
What do you do when you write a textual analysis?
You are leading readers through a careful examination of the text to some kind of interpretation or reasoned judgement
Define compare and contrast
Comparing things looks at their similarities; contrasting them focuses on their differences.
Two methods for organizing comparison/contrast writings - know which is best for longer and shorter essays
Block: better for shorter length essays
Point-by-point: better for longer length essays
Define figurative language
Words and phrases not used in literal way to help readers see a point (Metaphors, Similies, Analogies)
Note and define the three types of figurative language for comparison
- Metaphors: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which is not literally applicable
- Similes: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of different kind, used to make description more emphatic or vivid
- analogies: a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification
What is the purpose of a textual analysis?
To interpret the characteristics of a writing. To describe the content, structure, and functions of the writing contained in texts.
Define Formal Definition
Similar to a dictionary definition
Define Extended Definition
A more detailed definition; may be several sentences, paragraphs, or even a full essay length long. Also may include pictures or diagrams
Define Stipulative Description
How the writer defines the word, central to the argument the writer is making, not typically found in a dictionary.
