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English Language. Terminology. Make sure you read the question fully. Plan your response Have a clear and original thesis. Prove your thesis. Offer a variety of evidence, not just one or two simple supporting reasons. Do not state the obvious. Vary your sentence structures.

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English Language

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  1. English Language Terminology

  2. Make sure you read the question fully. Plan your response Have a clear and original thesis. Prove your thesis. Offer a variety of evidence, not just one or two simple supporting reasons. Do not state the obvious. Vary your sentence structures. Open-ended Question

  3. Classical Argument • Introduce subject • State thesis • Supply background information or information to understand the topic • Present your reasons for support • Refute the opposition. • Affirm your main point.

  4. Remember this is a persuasive essay with sources. Make your sources work for you. Use at least 3. Cite them. Don’t summarize the sources. Have something of substance to say. Take a position on the topic and go with it. Have at least 4 paragraphs. Refute the opposition if you need to. Reaffirm your thesis. Write what you know, know what you don’t know. Synthesis Tips

  5. Respond to the prompt. Deconstruct the prompt so that you know exactly what it is saying. Do not define terms. Use plenty of textual support. Analyze, don’t summarize. Think about HOW it is saying what it is saying, not just WHAT it is saying. Figure out the purpose of the piece of writing. Text Analysis

  6. misandrogynistic • Miso means hatred • Androgynous means having characteristics of both men and women or being neither specifically masculine or feminine • Misogyny means hatred of women • Misandrogynistic means hatred of men

  7. Interior monologue • A conversation going on within one’s mind • As I Lay Dying was known for these • “It would just be me and her on a high hill and me rolling the rocks down the hill at their faces, picking them up and throwing them down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that goddamn adze going One lick less. One lick less and we could be quiet.”

  8. diatribe • Bitter and abusive speech and writing • A prolonged discourse on a topic • There were repeated diatribes against the President. • My boyfriend did not like my email. He called it a diatribe because I went on and on about what I did not like about him.

  9. discombobulated • To upset or to confuse • Lucy was discombobulated when her prom date arrived two hours early and she still had not put on her make up. • Stay focused on your exam and do not become discombobulated.

  10. Parenthetical remarks • Unnecessary • Set off as in parentheses • "The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation."(William Hazlitt) • "In the valley of the jolly--ho-ho-ho!--Green Giant."(commercial jingle for Green Giant foods)

  11. Onomatopoeic diction • Thump, whiz, thud, whoop, hiss, clap, plunk, quack, purr, roar, rumble

  12. amalgam • A mixture of different elements • Any of various alloys of metal with mercury • A dental filling can be an amalgam

  13. salacious • Obscene, indecent, appealing to sexual desires

  14. epigraph • A quotation set at the beginning of a work to suggest its theme • “Then wear the gold hat if that will move her.” (The Great Gatsby)

  15. Retort To reply in a quick cutting or sarcastic manner. She retorted, “Well, why don’t you just do that?” Parallel conditional clauses “If anyone can do it, he can.” If anyone can save us, he can.” More terms

  16. Tropes • Tropes are figures of speech • Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it. Considered by some to be a form of metonymy • “All hands on deck.” • Metonymy: figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). Metonymy is also the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it, such as describing someone's clothing • The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings • .

  17. More tropes • Zeugma: Use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one • "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."(Star Trek: The Next Generation)

  18. Tropes… • Antimetabole: A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order (A-B-C, C-B-A). • "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us."(Malcolm X)

  19. Isocolon • A rhetorical term for a succession of clauses of approximately equal length and corresponding structure. • Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."(Mark Twain)"I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, we're a Pepper--Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper!"(advertising jingle for Dr. Pepper soft drink

  20. A’s • Antithesis: opposites • “Give me liberty or give me death” is an example of a sentence with antithesis

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