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31 Cards in this Set
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Essay comes from the French word essai, which means to attempt, or to try: True or False
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True
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True or False : Diaries, letters, and journals are largely imaginative and therefore unworthy as sources of information on a period of history
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False
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True or False: Two American historians and diarists were Captain John Smith and William Bradford
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True
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Short character sketches are called:
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Vignettes
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The process of dividing into parts to study the whole is called: ___________
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Analytical pattern
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The quality of making writing short and unified is called _______________
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conciseness
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The quality of logic in writing is called:___________
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Coherence
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Formal and informal refer to 2 types of _____________________
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Essay
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The Tatler and Spectator papers were written by ____________________ and ________________
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Addison and Steele
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Essay's about literature were written by ______________________ and ________________
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Wordsworth and Coleridge
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The sarcasm or irony to attack/ridicule and idea considered to be foolish is called ______________
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satire
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Jonathan Edwards wrote about his growing ___________ awareness
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spiritual
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Edwards most enjoyed seeing a _________________
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Thunderstorm
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What tragedies happened to Corrie ten Boom while in prison?
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Her father and sister died
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What were the prison conditions?
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Cold, cruel treatment, forced labor, little food
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The thesis of biography is the ____
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Personality of the subject
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Setting and historical plays a __________ role
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secondary
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Jesse Stuart wrote an autobiography about his life as a _____
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Teacher in rural Kentucky
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Bradford's biography of Robert E. Lee reveals him as a general who felt the war was __________
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cruel
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Douglas Freeman wrote an account of the life of _______________________
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Robert E. Lee
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A very famous six-volume biography is ___________________
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Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln
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What attitude does Crevecoeur seem to express about America?
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A land of opportunity
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
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Jefferson
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The Declaration of Independence states that people ____________________
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tend to endure hardship, rather than rebel
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Poe says the sole arbiter of poetry is ________
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taste
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Poe says the province of a poem is __________
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beauty
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List the 3 things humor provides in writing
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Entertainment, emotional release, a method of criticism
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The block method is suitable for ____________ _______________
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shorter essays
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The point by point method is suitable for _________________, and _______________
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complex essays, lengthy essays
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3 ways to arrange details are:
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Order of importance, order of place, order of feature
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A helpful method for showing relationship between parts is _________________
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Classification
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