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Essay Analysis Test Back Up Info Flashcards

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Personal/Reflective
Purpose of an Essay

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  • informal which includes:
    ** first person, colloquial language, subjective,
  • personal experiences,
  • reflective of an aspect of the author,
  • the thesis proves something about the author
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Persuasive/Argumentative
Purpose of an Essay

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Persuasion: emotional appeals
Argumentation: logical appeals

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Narrative MOD Purpose

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  • Purpose: Tells a story or recounts an experience and has a moral or lesson to prove a point
    ** Answers “What happened” type of question? The thesis answers it
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Narrative MOD Pattern

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Pattern: chronological (beginning, middle, and end)

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Narrative MOD Key Features

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  • Plot, climax, character, setting
  • First-person (i, me, my) and informal tone (colloquial language, subjective)
  • Transition words are “time signals” (ie. then, after that, soon)
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Narrative MOD Thesis

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The thesis is Implicit

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Narrative MOD Literary Devices

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Figurative Devices (ie. metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole)

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Cause and Effect MOD Purpose

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Purpose: Gives reasons why something happened OR Shows the results of some event or action
* Answers “Why…?” OR “What are the consequences/results…?”

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Cause and Effect MOD Pattern

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  • Focus on Causes (Cause #1, #2, #3 = Effect)
  • Focus on Effects (Cause = Effect #1, #2, #3)
  • Causal Chain (Cause, Effect, Cause, Effect)
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Cause and Effect MOD Key Features:

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  • Transitional words (If/then, Because, As a result, Thus, Therefore, Cause, Effect)
  • Logical cause and effect relation between ideas
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Cause and Effect MOD Thesis

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The thesis is implicit or explicit

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Cause and Effect MOD Literary Devices

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Parallelism (climatic)
Opposite/Contrast
Chiasmus
Periodic sentence

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Descriptive MOD Purpose

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Purpose: Describes a person, place, event, feeling, or thing
* The thesis answers a “What is it like?” kind of question
* Tries to give the reader a clear impression of the person, place, thing, feeling, or situation it is describing.

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Descriptive MOD Pattern

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Pattern: spatial/directional (ex: inside to outside, upstairs to downstairs, left to right, etc…)

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Descriptive MOD Key Features

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  • Appeals to the senses; considers how something looks, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds
  • Uses dominant impression
  • figurative language
  • Uses adjectives and adverbs
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Descriptive MOD Thesis

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The thesis is implicit or explicit

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Descriptive MOD Literary Device

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Literary device - Imagery

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Compare and Contrast MOD Purpose

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Purpose: To show similarities or differences to prove the thesis
asks “What is similar and what is different”

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Compare and Contrast MOD Pattern

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Block Method
Point by Point

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Compare and Contrast MOD Key Features

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Transitional Words (Key Transitional Words: Like/Unlike, On the contrary, Similar/ Dissimilar, Although, However, On the other hand, But, In contrast)

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Compare and Contrast MOD Thesis

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The thesis is explicit

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Compare and Contrast MOD Literary Devices

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Literary devices are structural (parallelism, opposite/contrast, periodic sentence)

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Example/Illustration MOD Purpose

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Purpose: Uses examples to support the main point the author is making about their topic (the thesis)
Answers “What are examples? To prove point

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Example/Illustration MOD Pattern

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usually, a minimum of 50% of supporting evidence is examples

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Example/Illustration MOD Key Features

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  • An illustration is an anecdote, analogy, or an example used to help explain or make something clear
  • Examples can include statistics, secondary sources, literary devices
  • Key Transitional Words: for example, for instance, for one thing, as an illustration, illustrated with, as an example, in this case
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Example/Illustration MOD Thesis

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The thesis is implicit

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Example/Illustration MOD Literary Devices

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Literary devices - analogy

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How to find Thesis

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Look for what sentence in the essay answers the question asked by the method of development

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech that greatly exaggerates the truth for dramatic effect.

30
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Metaphor

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A figurative comparison without using like or as.

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Extended Metaphor

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A figurative comparison without using like or as that continues through multiple sentences or paragraphs.

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a term or a part of something is used to represent the whole or vice versa.

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Metonymy

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The use of the name of one thing for that of another.

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Simile

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A figurative comparison using the words “like” or “as”.

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Personification

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Figure of speech using human characteristics towards an inanimate object.

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Parallelism

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Sections of the sentence are the same grammatically or similar to the way it is constructed.

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Climatic Parallelism

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When sections of the sentence are the same grammatically or similar in the way it’s constructed but they also help the text build to a “climax” or main point.

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Repetition

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An instance of repeating or being repeated.

39
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Anaphora

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The repeated use of a phrase at the beginning of a sentence to reinforce the importance of a subject.

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Periodic Sentence

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the use of the sentence’s main clause at the end of the sentence.

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Rhetorical Question

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A question not expected to be answered.

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Pun

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a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

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Analogy

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A comparison between something you have minimal understanding of to something you have lots of understanding, in order to understand something better.

44
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Unusual Word Order

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To add emphasis and variation in a sentence by having a verb before the subject.

45
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Sentence Fragment

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A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence that is either missing a subject or a verb.

46
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Chiasmus

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A rhetorical device that states 2 ideas, then repeats it in reverse order. This device is purely cosmetic. However, when used effectively, the device can be powerful.

47
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Opposite/Contrast

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Words with reverse meaning

48
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Antithesis

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Opposing ideas in close proximity

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Allusion

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A reference to something from history, pop culture, literature, etc.

50
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Litotes

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An understatement where you claim something to be less than it actually is, while sometimes using a double negative to state a positive.

51
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Verbal Irony

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A figure of speech that says one thing but means another. The tone is important.

52
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Consonance

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Sounds (Consonants) used in close proximity to one another

53
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Assonance

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Repeating sounds (vowels) which are close to each other, often leaving a poetic impact.

54
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ask a question to which the answer is implied:

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rhetorical question

55
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give emphasis:

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sentence fragment

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give rhythm:

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assonance and consonance

57
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play with words:

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pun

58
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present ideas in order of importance going from least to most:

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climatic parallelism

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contrast opposing ideas:

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antithesis

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make a statement more memorable:

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rhetorical devices

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save yourself a lot of words:

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synecdoche

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draw attention to a string of words:

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anaphora

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compare:

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metaphor and simile

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explain:

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analogy

65
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Informal

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*1st Person Point of View and pronouns
*Biased/subjective
*Based on the experiences and knowledge of the writer
*Implicit thesis
*Colloquial style and use of figurative language

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Formal

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*3rd Person
*Unbiased/objective
*Based on research
*Explicit thesis
*Academic style and use of stylistic devices

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