Fall 2022 English End of Course Exam Review

Argument

• Statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.

• Central argument that they are trying to persuade the audience to believe.

• Scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.

• The primary point or concept that the author wants to communicate to the readers about the topic

Author's Main Claim

• The part of your message that tells your audience what to do. If written right, it also makes them feel inspired to do it.

• Communication or discussion between people or groups

• Central argument that they are trying to persuade the audience to believe

• The author's attitude toward a certain topic

Call to action

• type of thesis statement in which you present the main idea of what you are writing in the form of an argument

• allow sensory recreations of experiences, objects, or imaginings. In other words, description encourages a more concrete or sensory experience of a subject, one which allows the reader to transport himself or herself into a scene

• Statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.

• The part of your message that tells your audience what to do. If written right, it also makes them feel inspired to do it.

Chronological order

• The primary point or concept that the author wants to communicate to the readers about the topic

• The order in which the events occurred, from first to last. This is the easiest pattern to write and to follow

• A reader’s understanding of how the author of a text expected a particular work, or part of it, to be interpreted, which they may infer from the text and/or from external evidence

•  Statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.

Claim Statement

•  type of thesis statement in which you present the main idea of what you are writing in the form of an argument

•  allow sensory recreations of experiences, objects, or imaginings. In other words, description encourages a more concrete or sensory experience of a subject, one which allows the reader to transport himself or herself into a scene

• Central argument that they are trying to persuade the audience to believe

• The primary point or concept that the author wants to communicate to the readers about the topic

Counterclaim

•  A character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs. It happens within them, and it drives their development as a character

• Scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story

•  Claim made to rebut a previous claim

•  Communication or discussion between people or groups

Descriptive details

• Statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.

• A reader’s understanding of how the author of a text expected a particular work, or part of it, to be interpreted, which they may infer from the text and/or from external evidence

•  Type of conflict that places characters at odds with forces outside themselves. These external forces stand in the way of a character’s motivations and create tension as the character tries to reach their goals

• allow sensory recreations of experiences, objects, or imaginings. In other words, description encourages a more concrete or sensory experience of a subject, one which allows the reader to transport himself or herself into a scene

Dialogue

• Type of conflict that places characters at odds with forces outside themselves. These external forces stand in the way of a character’s motivations and create tension as the character tries to reach their goals

•  Communication or discussion between people or groups

• A reader’s understanding of how the author of a text expected a particular work, or part of it, to be interpreted, which they may infer from the text and/or from external evidence

•  A character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs. It happens within them, and it drives their development as a character

External conflict

• Type of conflict that places characters at odds with forces outside themselves. These external forces stand in the way of a character’s motivations and create tension as the character tries to reach their goals

• A character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs. It happens within them, and it drives their development as a character

• The primary point or concept that the author wants to communicate to the readers about the topic

• using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance

Flashbacks

• Statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct

•  The primary point or concept that the author wants to communicate to the readers about the topic

• Claim dependent on or arising out of another; a claim that is part of a larger claim

•  Scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story