ENGLISH FINAL 2
Knowledge and Comp. 6.5
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- What are the three intrinsic performance levels of all human performances?
- Superior-Basic-Inadequate
- What are the five traditional elements of the elements of the exposition in novels and drama (and quite often, short stories too)?
- Set the tone & mood--Intro of Major Characters--Background Information--Introduce the Conflict--Launch the action
- Which sentence patterns-if any-are in this following sentence: What I wanted was to leave early for the shore-who wouldn't want to get an early start on vacation?-my family, however, hated getting out of bed early for anything, even vacation.
- Pattern O and Pattern K
- What are two desirable attributes brought to prose by strong subordination?
- [1] clarity -- [2] concision
- In J=CCC the 2nd c stands for critical. In this context, just what does critical mean?
- the defining attributes that are critical
- Good stories typically run from power of the power of the plot line. What is the engine at typically gives that power to the plot line "in the very best of stories"?
- Character Emergent and Manifest
- When composing a strong thesis, what is the pebble?
- The interpretive point
- What are the levels of the Going Deeper Progression? Note-Go in sequence from the surface to the depths.
- Literal-Categorical-Specific-Learned-Virtuoso
- What is the acronym "going A.P.E." stand for?
- a-analyse--p-project--e-execute
- What are the design components of the resolution sequence?
- [RQ1] What's the point?--[RQ2] What's the evidence--[RQ3] How do I explain the evidence--[RQ4] How do I explain away any counter-spin to the evidence--[RQ5] What's all the foregoing add up to--Data Inventory-quotes, details, arguments, etc
- Purposeful reading-a wonderful process. What are the three stages
- Pre-Reading -- Critical Reading -- Meaning-Making
- what is the appropriate projected word-range for the introduction of a prompted essay(an in-class essay)?
- 50-100
- What is the threshold test of the Context Portion of the thesis?
- The context portion takes the reader back to the critical question
- According to the elements of strong writing style (Strunk and White), the purposeful writer should use passive voice for two purposes. And those purposes are?
- [1] You want indirection, distance, aloofness.--[2] To place a point/term at the emphatic point of a statement-the end.
- What is the best rhetorical design(generally) for the introduction of an essay of literary interpretation?
- setting-the-scene
- If you attempt to revise without going A.P.E., the likely outcome will be...?
- The revision will be different but not better.
- How many sentences for a body-section in a prompted essay?
- 5 or more
- The exposition and the Rites of Passage overlap where?
- At the Launching of the Action and Call to the Adventure
- When we critique a rhetorical performance, we look at three attributes:
- [1] Design--[2] Development--[3] Flow
- What is meant by the command to write with objective correlatives?
- Use visual images instead of empty abstractions.
- Critical reading typically involves highlighting and annotating. What does each activity show?
- Highlighting-What is critical - - Annotating-why it is critical
- In a strong prompted essay, about how many quotes/vivid details should there be per body section (rule-of-thumb?)
- 8-12 minimally
- In the context of Rhetorical design, what is meant by Macro Design?
- Projected Section Sequence for the Essay
- By the Micro?
- Individual Section Designs Specific Design + (Quotes + Paraphrases + Summaries + Details + Arguments)
- For what purposes does a writer properly use objective case pronouns?
- Use objective case pronouns for all objects and indirect objects. Also, use objective case pronouns for the subject of the infinitive clause.
- An example of Sentence Pattern B?
- Jim wanted to go to the movies; Jill, for a quiet walk.
- In prompted essays (or any essays, actually) "the answer is not the essay". So from what, then, does "the essay" come if not from "the answer" (the thesis)? Note-A two- or three-word answer will work here.
- Critical Question
- Where does the "two section strategy" come from in a prompted essay? Explain briefly.
- The Thesis that is driving the emergence of the Macro Design of your essay
- I have items in a series I need to present. My choices are the garden variety pattern I've commanded since grade school or Patterns D,E, and F. What judgments would direct me to...
- Pattern D...Series: items separated by punctuation only. -- Pattern E... Series: items separated by conjunctions only. -- Pattern F...items arranged in balanced pairs.
- Judging and critiquing performances demands-as the activity's name implies-judgment. What are the three chief elements of judgment?
- [1] Conscious--[2] Critical--[3] Consideration
- Give definition of xxx
- xxx (STUDY VOCAB)
- What is the dynamic purpose of the Qualifying Portion of the thesis?
- Qualifying Portion validates the leap from the Context Portion to the General Thesis
- NS2 -novelty, subtlety, and significance. Nice mnemonic. What is the measure of significance in literature?
- If it goes to the heart of the matter it deepens the readers' insights
- What is the attribute which most often signals that a student's voice has reached the "B" level?
- - Superior attributes are frequent
- Integrating quotes into one's own voice and phrasing-there are two tricks of punctuation whereby the purposeful writer may modify quoted material to insure smooth integration and flow: brackets and ellipses. What does each show?
- [ ] Shows a word is replaced with a different word without altering the meaning of the sentence--... shows that there is more in the middle of this quote but it is not needed for the point
- What are the distinguishing attributes of displayed knowledge for...
- Basic Knowledge: Broad and general -- Superior Knowledge: Encyclopedic-Specific-Detailed
- What, in the basic elements of the standard anticipatory set for reading literature? Note-look for five items here.
- The Basics-Appendix A-The "So What" Categories-The array of Literary Terms-Thematics
- What is the grammatical convention (rule) for effective parallel structure?
- All elements of compounds and series should be expressed in the same form.
- Two activities we've studied this year are Purposeful Reading and Going A.P.E. at one point at least these two activities collide Where? How?
- Literary Interpretation Essays: Reading the story (Purposeful Reading), going A.P.E. on your essay.
- I hate IDEs in student interpretations. You know, those interpretive dead ends. Well, how do we know we are presenting an IDE?
- When something is more of fact and is not significant
- When are the two times one might effectively use negative statement?
- 1-for antitheses(balanced pairs)--2-the negative is more precise
- What are the stages of the writing process (in order, please, from bottom up to the top, the top being the final stage)?
- to publish/submit -- edit for conventions -- review, refine, revise -- initial draft of piece --pre-write
- Verisimilitude is the appearance of truth in literature. What is one of the chief devices for creating verisimilitude?
- Foundation (and Edifice)
- What is the general convention for the proper use of pronouns (that, which, him, etc.)?
- A Pronoun must agree with its antecedent in person, number, and gender.
- The "A" level?
- Superior attributes are pervasive
- What is the numeric mnemonic for the appropriate length of a thesis statement?
- 35-55...75 + Yikes!
- What is an appositive? (And you need to know that tidbit if you're going to compose Patten G intentionally.)
- a renaming element
- What are the four attributes we should look at to judge the quality of voice?
- Structure, Phrasing, Conventions, Overall effect
- In the rhetorical design of the informal book review we have used this year, the 3rd and 4th sections offer the reviewers judgments about what made the reviewer like or dislike the book. The rhetorical design recommended for these two sections is vicarious experience. What is the "rhetorical purpose" of this vicarious experience design?
- Make the reader experience vicariously what you experience directly
- Give me a simple example of sentence pattern xxx.
- xxx (STUDY SENTENCE PATTERNS)
- Give me five elements of a superior anticipatory set with regard to literature?
- Rites of Passage, Characterization, Action, Style, Irony
- Superior rhetorical development shows itself in many different manifestations. As a rule-of-thumb, however, I've given you one particular attribute to look for as the sign of superior rhetorical development in a body section. What is that easily recognizable attribute?
- Each section have more than one paragraph
- What are the 4 design components of the design of a rhetorical section of vicarious experience?
- The Point-The Plan-The Data Inventory, quotes, details, arguments, etc-The intention, make the reader experience vicariously what you experienced directly
- Where (how) does judgment enter the process of going A.P.E.?
- You need to see and judge what is broken and what needs to be fixed, you have choices to make.
- What is the word-length typically aimed for in a prompted essay for the development of a body-section?
- 150-350
- What is the purpose of the first stage of the 3-stage Purposeful Reading process?
- Establishing an anticipatory set
- What factor about prompted essays making the pre-writing exercise so vital?
- NO DO OVERS
- When analyzing rhetorical design, what are the four primary elements we identify?
- Introduction-General Summery-Body Section 1 and Body Section 2-Conclusion
- The writer's modulation of voice allows the writer to create many distinct voices, each voice fine and worthy in the appropriate context. this year you studied four voices worth creating. And those were...?
- Clear and Direct-Academic-Styled-Colloquial
- What is the formula expression for the seed-to-the -tree metaphor of rhetorical development?
- Macro [CQ -> TS -> PBS] -> Micro [{Specific Design} + {Q + P + S + D}]