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| overconfident of knowledge through generally uniformed |
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| parallel structure/construction |
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| lovely, fluid, musical writing that has balance and rhythm |
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| person, place, thing feeling, or idea |
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| takes the place of a noun |
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| describes a noun or a pronoun |
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| describes anything about a verb |
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| an emotion packed into a word or phrase |
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| shows a relationship between two things in a space or time |
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| in greek mythology, he stole fire from the gods and gave it to man; his name means forethought (he can see the future). His brother, Ethemetheus, gave the animals all the cool stuff like feathers and claws and gave them to the animals. Prometheus was pissed but Zeus said 'tough'. So Prometheus decided that he was going to give fire to the humans because he felt it was unfair. Prometheus ends up being chained to a rock and valters peck out his liver everyday and everyday it regrows. |
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| a small group of related words, a phrase is not a sentence |
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| a nickname in mythology that gives away a god's story |
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| a group of words containing a subject and a predicate |
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different types and different forms and differnet kinds of writing
ex: essay, poetry, dramatic, narrative |
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| (french word meaning try) a genre developed by Montaigne he felt there was a gap and needed a style of writing where all throughts come together |
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| exposing, makes the upscure clear process of setting out clear facts and bringing it to a conclusion |
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| art of story telling (can use first person) |
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| the process of painting a word picture in prose |
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the process of ordering your reasonings, your ideas, and your fact into a compelling arguement
order is HUGE |
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| part of a sentence--the focus of the sentence |
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| everything that says something about the subject |
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| ordinary writing or language, written or spoken without rhyme or meter |
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| language arranged beautifully-could have rhyme or meter |
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| soft inner organs, internal, from your core, muscular verbs |
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| a literary device in which a word produces the sound it names |
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indirect reference
"you're no Switzerland" |
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| the clear, straight forward retelling of the storyline |
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a dull common place remark, delivered as if it is profound
ex: "Shakespeare was a really great writer" |
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| thought provoking, rich, complexed |
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| describing a scene when th subject is not be acted upon |
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| state of being/linking verbs |
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is, was, were, being, are
describing what is or what was |
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| subjects doing the action/verb |
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| follows a linking verb and describes the subject |
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| follows the linking verb and renames the subject |
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| a compelling idea-question that drives the entire paper |
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| a focusing line of a body paragraph that explores/develops a part of the larger thesis-question |
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| the very first line of the essay, designed to draw in as many readers as possible. Must be connected to the thesis somehow |
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