English Unit 2 TEST

A descriptive essay describes a person, place or event

An essay that includes a story about a personal experience told from the author’s perspective, written in first person

Definition essay focuses on one word or an abstract concept: essay on love.

Compare/contrast essay, it discuss similarities & differences between two things, people, or places

explains the cause and effect of something using facts, stats, expert testimonies

to describe how something is done- step by step instructions on how to do something

to analyze the strengths, weaknesses or methods of someone else’s work

uses pure logic to convince and persuade you to believe something and to take action.

Facts are useful in supporting an argument

-know a sentence has stats because of the numerical clues -statistics add meaning to a sentence by providing facts

Recognize a sentence with quotation if their quoting something in the sentence

An expert of some sort shares their opinion on a topic

Examples do not prove a point but they suggest reasons why a point is valid.

Comparing things in a sentence, for example; Working on an essay is like preparing for the Olympics

provides a real-life situation with which the reader can identify. using personal experiences.

A powerful persuasive tool, Based on pure values and morals

a way of convincing the audience of an argument by using an emotional response (emotions)

Logos is an appeal to logic and is a way of persuading the audience/ reader by using reason.

convincing someone of something or using credible people . Examples: Convincing someone to get vaccinated Convincing someone to do their homework.

draws attention to a string of words through repetition (r, r, r)

Referencing an old period or event. Example: remember in second grade when I peed my pants in class

where both halves of the sentence are equal in structure (may contain semicolons)

compares two things without the use of like or as

emphasizes a fact. Example: “You could have knocked me over with a feather.”