English I Honors Midterm Study Guide Part 2

What is a claim?

The position taken by the person making an arguement; what that person wants to prove or persuade the audience to believe

What is a arguement?

Using language, reason, and evidence to influence the thoughts and behavior of others

What are the different types of essays?

Expository, narrative, persuasive, and descriptive

What is the purpose of an expository essay?

To inform

Ex: news articles

What is the purpose of a narrative essay?

To express or tell a story

Ex: memoir

What is the purpose of a descriptive essay?

To portray a person, place, or object

Ex: travel brochure

What is the purpose of a persuasive essay?

To convince

Ex: essay

What is perspective in non fiction?

Narrative is the author - and the events are told from the narrator or characters who are real people

What is tone?

An author's attitude towards his/her subject

What is diction?

Helps readers discern an author's tone

Considers the words the author uses to convince us of their opinion

What is the purpose of non fiction?

A piece of prose that gives a factual account - various functions

What are types of nonfiction works?

Speeches, essays, and historical documents

What is a speech?

Public address written to be delivered orally

Has a clear purpose, unifying theme, emotional tones, and contains logical, emotional, and ethical appeals

What is the purpose of a speech?

To explain something to listeners and to convince others to accept a position and respond in some way

What is an essay?

Short non-fiction work that presents a single main idea or thesis about a topic

What are the three types of essays?

Persuasive, expository, and personal

What is the purpose of each type of essay?

Persuasive - to convince a reader of a specific viewpoint or to take action

Expository - to explain, inform, or describe a topic in a clear and objective manner

Personal - to share personal experiences, reflections, or stories, often to explore a theme or express individuality

Who wrote I've Been to the Mountaintop?

MLK

Who wrote Homeless?

Anna Quindlen

Who wrote Keep Memory Alive?

Elie Wiesel

Who said Proclamation 4417?

Gerald R. Ford

Who wrote Desert Exile?

Yoshiko Uchida

What is ethos?

The character, credibility, and moral values a group or individual possesses

Who wrote the Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger?

Ronald Reagen

What is pathos?

Persuasion based on emotion

Provides a personal appeal that has the power to move listeners, change attitudes, and produce actions

What is logos?

Based on logic or reasoning

Convinces the audience of a speaker's opinion through clear, logical argument

What are the rhetorical appeals?

Ethos, pathos, logos

What are the rhetorical devices?

Repetition, anaphora, rhetorical questions, and parallel structure

What is anaphora?

The repetition of a word/phrase at the beginning of a successive clauses/sentences

What is the difference between rhetorical appeals and devices?

Appeals - appeal to an audience, an effective argument - must employ a combination of logos pathos, and ethos

Devices - appeal to emotions and ethics of a reader

What are rhetorical questions?

Questions posed by speakers that are meant to be thought about

What is repetition?

Writers intentional reuse of words to emphasize ideas

What is a parallel structure?

Writer emphasizes the equal value or weight

What is a soapstone?

Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone

What questions do you ask about a speaker in SOAPSTONE?

Who is the speaker? What is the speaker's age, gender, class, and education? Whose voice is being heard? What do you know about the speaker that helps you understand their POV?

What questions do you ask about a occasion in SOAPSTONE?

What is the time and place of the piece? What is the current situation?

What questions do you ask about a audience in SOAPSTONE?

Does the speaker specify an audience?

What questions do you ask about a purpose in SOAPSTONE?

What is the purpose behind the text? What is the message? How does the speaker convey this message?

What questions do you ask about a subject in SOAPSTONE?

What topic, content, and ideas are included in the text? Is there more than one subject? How does the author present the subject?

What questions do you ask about a tone in SOAPSTONE?

What is the attitude of the author? Is the author emotional, objective, neutral, or biased about this topic? What types of diction, syntax, and imagery help reflect the tone?

What is syntax?

Sentence structure

Does Keiko's mother invite Henry and his family for dinner at Keiko's house?

No

What does the "I am Chinese" button that Henry wears symbolize?

The inner conflict Henry has with himself

How is Henry able to attend school at Rainer?

He won an academic scholarship there and also works in the cafeteria

What part of speech is "I should have gone to bed earlier?"

Adjective

What part of speech is, "when we get to Rome, I am going to visit the Colosseum?"

Conjunction

Which of the following would NOT be considered when looking for patterns within an author's theme?

Allusions

When they first meet, Rainsford sees General Zaroff as....

Handsome and considerate host

Upon realizing that Zaroff actually hunts human beings, Rainsford...

Reacts with disgust and horro

Is General Zaroff's physical description animalistic a type of irony?

No, its not considered irony

What was Edgar Allen Poe known for?

His horror and detective stories

What was Poe's life like?

Hard

Married his 13 year old cousin who died and so did his Mom and adoptive Mom

What type of narrator is Montresor?

Unreliable

What is an unreliable narrator?

An unreliable narrator can be defined as any narrator who misleads readers, either deliberately or unwittingly

Are all essays persuasive in nature?

No

What are the types of conflict?

Internal and external

Internal - Within character's mind

External - Takes place between character and external force (person, society, nature, etc)

What is direct characterization?

When an author describes what a character physically looks like

What is indirect characterization?

The author reveals the character's personality without directly telling the reader

What is theme?

The general insights about life that can be inferred from a story or novel

When Sergeant-Major Morris gives Mr. White a monkey paw, Mr. White first wishes for

200 pounds

In "The Monkey's Paw" when Mr. White wishes for his son to be alive again, what happens?

His son never appears (he uses his third wish for his son be dead again)

Who is the Most Dangerous Game?

Humans

In "The Most Dangerous Game" How does Rainsford arrive at Ship-Trap Island?

He falls off his boat and swims there

What does Keiko ask Henry to hide when she and her family are forced to evacuate?

All of her family's photos and memories together

Why was Henry not allowed to speak Cantonese at home?

His parents wanted him to assimilate and become more "American"

In what condition does Henry find the "Alley Cats" record in the Panama Hotel?

it is broken in half - symbolizes Henry and Keiko's relationship

What song did Oscar Holden dedicate to Keiko and Henry?

Alley Cats

Why did Henry's father stop speaking to him?

Henry was hiding photos for Keiko

What is Jamie Ford attempting to tell us through HOTCOBAS?

People should be defined as who they are by their actions

Why was the Panama Hotel so important to Henry?

He met the love of his life (Keiko) there

What does Henry's father call him after his stroke?

A stranger

In HOTCOBAS, Mrs. Beatty first comes across as ___, even though she is actually ___

Rude and kind

The writer's main purpose or argument is their:

Thesis

The proper MLA format for writing a date is:

Day, month then year

Ex: 1 January 2022

The margins for a properly formatted MLA essay are:

1 inch

How do you quote the title of a novel?

Italicized

For a summary of a story or novel, should the tense ALWAYS be past tense?

No, it should ALWAYS be present tense

The last sentence of a conclusion paragraph is called the:

Clincher

What type of indent is used in the Works Cited page?

Hanging

How should the author's name appear in a works cited page?

Last name, first name

The word a pronoun refers to is called its:

Antecedent

What is connotation and denotation?

Connotation - concerns the feeling the word invokes

Denotation - the word's dictionary definition

What is the analysis process?

Observe, identify patterns, draw a conclusion - examining a text or subject to discover deeper meanings/themes

What does "Keep Memory Alive" discuss?

The holocaust - memory of a young Jewish boy who grew up

Always speak out about what you believe in

Speaking for the dead, wronged Jews

Speech

What does "Desert Exile" discuss?

Time at Japanese internment camps

Horrible living conditions

Memoir

What does "Proclamation 4417" state?

Apologizing for mistreatment of Japanese-Americans - promises to never do it again

Terminates executive order 9066

Speech

What does "I've Been to the Mountaintop" state?

Wants people to gather and speak out about the mistreatment and racism

Highlights economic strength of Black people

Moral responsibility - involves religion

Speech

What does "Homeless" discuss?

Critiques society's tendency to reduce homelessness to an noun (broad)

Urging a shift toward understanding the humanity of individuals without homes and focusing on the personal stories and what they own (ex: blue room)

Essay

What does "Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger" state?

Mourning the death of the astronauts and that we'll never forget them

But we will honor them by moving on and working on our future research

Speech

In mla format, does the title of an essay and speech go into quotation marks?

Yes