Vivid Verbs 100

2. Vivid Verbs 100 A better way to say “to paint a picture”

3. Vivid Verbs 100 What is “to illustrate”?

4. Vivid Verbs 200 a fancy way to say “to make a list”

5. Vivid Verbs 200 What is “to enumerate”?

6. Vivid Verbs 300 Impressive way to say “to confidently state one’s view”

7. Vivid Verbs 300 What is “to assert”?

8. Vivid Verbs 400 to say something boldly

9. Vivid Verbs 400 What is “to proclaim”?

10. Vivid Verbs 500 To completely criticize an idea

11. Vivid Verbs 500 What is “to denounce”?

12. Targeting Tone 100 An author chooses words based on their connotation as well as their denotation.

13. Targeting Tone 100 What is diction?

14. Targeting Tone 200 An author uses these to invoke readers’ senses

15. Targeting Tone 200 What are images?

16. Targeting Tone300 Sometimes what an author focuses on is as important as what he or she omits

17. Targeting Tone 300 What are details?

18. Targeting Tone 400 Examples include: formal, informal, pedantic, didactic

19. Targeting Tone400 What is language?

20. Targeting Tone500 Examples: simple, compound, complex, periodic, parallel

21. Targeting Tone 500 What is sentence structure?

22. Tricky Tropes 100 “This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling. Like a huge organ, rise the burinshed arms,” wrote Longfellow.

23. Tricky Tropes 100 What is simile?

24. Tricky Tropes200 In Dickinson’s poem, Death drives a carriage and stops for passengers.

25. Tricky Tropes200 What is personification?

26. Tricky Tropes300 “I am hurt. Call me a grave man. In the morning, you may find me dead.”

27. Tricky Tropes300 What is pun?

28. Tricky Tropes400 Bryant asks a waterfowl “dost thou pursue thy solitary way?”

29. Tricky Tropes400 What is apostrophe?

30. Tricky Tropes500 “Lend me your ears”

31. Tricky Tropes500 What is synecdoche?

32. Rhetorical Features 100 It is necessary to build this to be taken seriously.

33. Rhetorical Features 100 What is credibility?

34. Rhetorical Features 200 An incorrectness in reasoning.

35. Rhetorical Features 200 What is a logical fallacy?

36. Rhetorical Features 300 Using a sensible argument with facts and statistics

37. Rhetorical Features300 What is logos?

38. Rhetorical Features 400 Using an emotional argument; playing on fears or sympathies

39. Rhetorical Features 400 What is pathos?

40. Rhetorical Features 500 Using your research, experience or position to gain allegiance

41. Rhetorical Features 500 What is ethos?

42. American Writers 100 The Baltimore Ravens were named after his famous poem

43. American Writers 100 Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

44. American Writers200 “An American Scholar” who preached the benefits of nature via transcendentalism.

45. American Writers 200 Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

46. American Writers 300 This beloved author was born in Lorain, Ohio and has won both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize.

47. American Writers300 Who is Toni Morrison?

48. American Writers400 This writer expressed sour grapes toward businessmen who crushed Oklahoma farmers.

49. American Writers400 Who is John Steinbeck?

50. American Writers500 This satirist was born and died in years when Haley’s comet appeared.