English 10 Midterm Exam Review 2

ID rhetorical strategy: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

ID poetic device: "Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne’er succeed."

Parris expresses his fears that "a faction will drive me from my pulpit" (Miller 21).

True or False: Paraphrased material from an outside source does not require a citation.

Correct or Incorrect Format? John Proctor exclaims, "God is dead!" (Miller 83).

ID poetic device: "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul..."

Includes insight, analysis, interpretation, and inferences about the concrete details

The repetition of an initial consonant sound

A mini-thesis that contains the subject of a body paragraph

ID poetry form: " his lips are pale and still.../ ...he has no pulse nor will."

The emotional appeal

ID appeal: Powhatan says, "Why should you take by force that from us which you can have by love?"

True or False: Using personal pronouns is acceptable in a formal, academic essay.

ID rhetorical appeal: Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

ID poet & poem: "I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person..."

Most of Emily Dickinson's poems are ____.

About whom is Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" written?

ID Form: "A noiseless patient spider, / I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated"

ID Form: "The Stillness in the Room / Was like the Stillness in the Air - / Between the Heaves of Storm-"

ID appeal: The Preamble begins with a personal pronoun “We the People of the United States."

ID appeal from Declaration: “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries..."

ID poem's characteristic: "When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns... the charts and the diagrams..."

The use of several conjunctions to join clauses, phrases, or words in places

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

ID appeal: Smith writes that Pocahontas “hazarded the beating out of her own brains...”

Comparing two seemingly unlike things using like or as

a brief usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event real or fictional

Which rhetorical strategy is connected to creating pathos (emotional appeal)?

ID poet & poem: "So instead of getting to Heaven, at last – I’m going, all along."

ID: "That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."

ID strategy: Powhatan says, "Why should you take by force that from us which you can have by love?"

The juxtaposition of two opposite ideas in parallel structure to achieve a contrasting effect.

An appeal to the speaker's credibility

Most of Walt Whitman's poems are ____.

Elizabeth responded humbly: "I cannot judge you, John" (Miller).

True or False: Writers should use at least double the amount of commentary for each CD.

ID: Smith writes, “however this might be presented you from a more worthy pen, it cannot from a more honest heart."

A main statement or theory that is proven in an essay; usually found at end of introduction

Includes quoted facts, examples, plot references, and proof

The logical appeal