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Rhetoric Unit Flashcards

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What are the characteristics of coherence?

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Flows like the river.
Be like Spock (be logical)
Sober up the drunk, drunks are incoherent.
Kill the bunny, they hop, use connecting words.

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How is writing an essay like laying bricks?

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You need mortar to keep it together, mortar is transition words.

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What does the letters in COCAS stand for? They are the tools to arranging info in an essay coherently

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C = chronological.
O = order of importance.
C = compare and contrast.
A = analogy.
S = Spatial.
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What does chronological in COCAS mean?

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Use words like first, then, after, next, and do so in an orderly fashion by time.

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What does Order of importance in COCAS mean?

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persuading one side is better than the other, you can start with most important and move down to least or vice versa, but don’t be a bunny.

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What does compare and contrast mean in COCAS?

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create a pattern in each paragraph that shows what compared will come first in the paragraph and what will come second, in each paragraph.

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What does Analogy mean in COCAS?

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establish a connection between the topic and something, and use your paragraphs to tie in that comparisons to each of your points. It makes it more fun, like potatoes to clowns.

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What does spatial mean in COCAS?

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The order of information in space, human beings like patterns.

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What is the first magic trick you can use with coherence?

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Transitional expression

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What is the second magic trick you can use with coherence?

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direct reference, you want the reader to flow from one paragraph to the next, so make a connection in the next paragraph that relates to the paragraph before it so it’s not a huge jump.

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What is the third magic trick you can use with coherence?

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Pronoun antecedent.

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What is the fourth magic trick you can use with coherence (parallelism?)

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parallelism - the Repetition of a particular grammatical pattern. “We shall fight… We shall fight…. We shall fight…”

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In development what does DEUQ stand for?

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D = detail
E = elaboration
U = use specific information.
Q = quotations.
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In development what is Cotton candy?

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It looks like a lot but in reality is just a bunch of fluff.

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In development a plane flying over a city is bad because?

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It lacks detail! You only see outlines, crash INTO the city!

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How is a lead like a seed?

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It will soon grow into the main idea of the paragraph of your essay.

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How is a lead like a carrot for a stubborn donkey?

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It entices the donkey to move forward.

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For a reader what is a lead?

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It is something that nudges them into the rest of your essay to stir up a reasonable amount of curiosity.

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For writers what is a lead?

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It is a line or two that gives a shaping edge or angle to your essay or paragraph.

20
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What makes a weak lead?

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Hollow, a flash in the pan.
Statement of the obvious.
A false question.

21
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Who should you always keep in mind when writing a lead?

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You audience.

22
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What are the seven types of leads?

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Anecdote, why, shocker, curmudgeon, split, comparison and confession.

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What is an anecdote lead?

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The most common type of lead, it is a mini story or piece of dialogue that bears directly on the main idea of your piece.

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What is a why lead?

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When the reader asks the question “why?” In response to your lead.

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What is a shocker lead?

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A lead that shocks your reader and wakes them up.

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What is a curmudgeon lead? Who is this lead like? What can you attack with it?

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It is an angry ornery lead that is often but not always a paradox, it is the opposite unpopular side of something. You can attack a large amount of popular conventions with this lead. It is like a grumpy old man.

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What is the split lead? What type of essay is it used for?

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Dividing things up into two categories, the whole point of a split lead is for you yourself to fall into one of the categories. It is usually used for a light essay.

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What is the comparison lead?

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Starts with a strange comparison and develops the main idea of your essay from it. It involves finding the similarity in two seemingly unrelated things.

29
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What is the definition of coherence?

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Logical arrangement of ideas.

30
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What is the confession lead?

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Confession leads are effective because of the honesty of the observation. By opening up a subject you know other people know about but don’t talk about you become the readers confidant, or even friend.

31
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What does MLA stand for?

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Modern language association

32
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What size and color should paper and ink be on an MLA formatted paper? What font size and type should you use?

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81/2 by 11, white paper black ink. Ariel or times new roman size 12 or 10.

33
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What are the margin lines spacing? For paginate? How do you write a paginate? What spacing should you use? How much do you indent each paragraph? Which margin do you justify?

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1 inch. 1/2 inch. Cummings 1. Double space. Each paragraph indented 1/2 inch. The left margin.

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How do you do a proper MLA header? Where do you put the essay title?

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On the left side of the paper. Your full name, then teacher’s name, then class, then date in day month year fashion. You center the essay title.

35
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When in doubt…

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Cite your source.

36
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How do you cite a block quote?

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A block quote is when 3 or more lines are quoted. When this happens indent 1 inch and you don’t use quotation marks. You also out the parenthetical citation before the period in the end of th quote.

37
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What are the steps of an essay?

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1) lead.
2) thesis statement.
3) topic sentence.
4) unity.
5) coherence.
6) development.
7) conclusion.

38
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What is a thesis statement? 4 parts.

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The last sentence of your first paragraph. Specifically says what you’re going to talk about. It must stand out from all the other essays your teacher reads. It is the sentence you need to change most in your essay.

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What does TC stand for?

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Topic comment.

40
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What are the three characteristics of a thesis statement and what do they stand for?

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SIM meaning specific, interesting and manageable.

41
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In SIM what does specific mean?

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Specific is the who, what, where and when of your essay.

42
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In SIM what does manageable mean?

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Means the focus of the thesis is not too broad and would take up an entire book to discuss, it also means that the thesis is not too narrow and would only take a couple of sentences to prove.

43
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What does POOH stand for?

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P = personal taste statement/value judgement.
O = obvious purpose of writing the essay.
O = obvious thesis statement.
H = hypothetical.
44
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In POOH what does obvious thesis statement mean?

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This is a thesis that looks like a thesis but is not, it’s too obvious, requires little proof, and is not argumentative i.e. Boring.

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In POOH what does hypothetical mean?

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It’s a thesis statement that starts out generally with if, they are based on if this had happened then this would happen, there is no obvious support in the text to back them up so they’re garbage.

46
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What is a topic sentence? 4 parts.

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It is the first sentence of every paragraph except conclusion and intro. It’s like a mini thesis. It must pass the TC-SIM test. It must be manageable for one paragraph.

47
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What is unity?

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When every single sentence/paragraph in a paragraph/essay directly relates to and supports the main idea expressed in the topic sentence/ thesis.

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