English II Final Exam
College: First year
Denouement/Resolution
the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
Mr. Johnson may argue that we need to save the whales, but he as gone through two messy divorces.
Ad Homenin
Driving while smoking a cigarette isn't illegal, so driving while smoking marijuana shouldn't be illegal either.
False analogy
Because several school shooters were users of violent video games, the games should be banned.
Hasty Generalization
The town council erred in permitting the adult bookstore to open, for shortly after two women were assaulted.
Post Hoc
People watch television because they are too lazy to talk or read or because they want a mindless escape form their lives.
Either/Or
Logical
logos
Ethical
ethos
Emotional
pathos
Kinds of audiences:
Supportive, wavering, and hostile
Deductive reasoning
Generalization that goes with a specific case
Inductive reasoning
Specific facts and drawn conclusion
The title of novels should be _____________.
Underlined or italicized
The title of short stories should be in _____.
Quotations
The title of poems should be in ____.
Quotations
In formal writing, a writer should use ____ person point of view.
Third
A literary analysis paper should be written in ____ tense.
Present
Argumentative writing involves more than presenting a point of view and ___.
Providing evidence
Pacts, statistics, examples, and observations based on _______ can be used as a support on an argumentative essay.
Personal experience
An argumentative essay should be written in a ____ person point of view.
Third
A writer much document information he or she has summarized or paraphrased from a source. True or False.
True.
On a works cited page, a writer should only include sources _____.
Used in his or her actual paper.
______ format is what we use for all paper in English.
MLA
Is it acceptable for a writer to use back to back quotes?
No.
If a writer introduces a quote with the author's name, he or does does/does not have to put the author's name in parentheses at the end.
does
Sources found in the library are what kind of sources?
Secondary
A long quotation is more than four sentences.
False
Second person is acceptable only in direct quotes.
True
If you alter a quotation to emphasize a point or to clarify a point, you should ____
Identify new material with brackets
the part of the research process where you summarize all sources and evaluate their usefulness to your paper is called ____.
Annotated bibliography