Mid-term Review

Question 1

Identify the purposes for writing (three categories)

Answer 1

Expressive, Expository, and Persuasive

Question 2

List the steps of the writing process

Answer 2

Planning
Pre-Writing
Shaping
Drafting
Revising
Editing

Question 3

Identify at least two pre-writing activities

Answer 3

Free write, 
Loop
List
Cluster
Cube
Question
Outline
Letter writing
Discovery draft
Review notes and annotations
Keep a journal or notebook

Question 4

What should a thesis be?

Answer 4

Suitable, Specific, and Significant

Question 5

What should a thesis not be?

Answer 5

An announcement, a fact, or an overly general or narrow statement

Question 6

What is a topic sentence?

Answer 6

A sentence that expresses the main idea of each paragraph

Question 7

Define narration

Answer 7

Storytelling

Question 8

What is meant by the term “narrative point”

Answer 8

The perspective through which a story is communicated. It usually functions as a thesis.

Question 9

Define dramatic license

Answer 9

The authors ability to determine what is included and what is omitted in a writing

Question 10

Define chronological order

Answer 10

The arrangement of things following one another in time

Question 11

Define reverse chronological

Answer 11

The arrangement of things from latest to earliest

Question 12

What are time markers

Answer 12

Time markers are dates and/or times that help the reader follow a sequence of events

Question 13

What are transitions? (Provide examples)

Answer 13

Transitions help readers move from thought to thought.

Examples on pg 349

Question 14

Define flashback

Answer 14

Interruptions that writers do to insert past events, in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative

Question 15

Explain why dialogue is used and how it is incorporated, along with benefits.

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Define subjective and objective descriptions

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Define vantage point

Answer 17

A position or standpoint from which something is viewed/described. It determines what you can perceive.

Question 18

Be familiar with memoir characteristics - identify the two goals

Answer 18

Goals:

1. The capture an important moments
2. To convey something about it’s significance for us

Question 19

Be familiar with memoir characteristic - identify key features

Answer 19

Key Features:

1. 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)
2. 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.
3. Convey something about the significance of its subject. Don’t tell why the incident was significant, reveal what it means to you.

Question 20

What do you do when you write a textual analysis?

Answer 20

You are leading readers through a careful examination of the text to some kind of interpretation or reasoned judgement

Question 21

Define compare and contrast

Answer 21

Comparing things looks at their similarities; contrasting them focuses on their differences.

Question 22

Two methods for organizing comparison/contrast writings - know which is best for longer and shorter essays

Answer 22

Block: better for shorter length essays

Point-by-point: better for longer length essays

Question 23

Define figurative language

Answer 23

Words and phrases not used in literal way to help readers see a point (Metaphors, Similies, Analogies)

Question 24

Note and define the three types of figurative language for comparison

Answer 24

1. Metaphors: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which is not literally applicable
2. 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
3. analogies: a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification

Question 25

What is the purpose of a textual analysis?

Answer 25

To interpret the characteristics of a writing. To describe the content, structure, and functions of the writing contained in texts.

Question 26

Define Formal Definition

Answer 26

Similar to a dictionary definition

Question 27

Define Extended Definition

Answer 27

A more detailed definition; may be several sentences, paragraphs, or even a full essay length long. Also may include pictures or diagrams

Question 28

Define Stipulative Description

Answer 28

How the writer defines the word, central to the argument the writer is making, not typically found in a dictionary.