Engl. 1301 final exam

Revision

"reseeding" or "seeing again"

two necessary tools for the editing process:

1. dictionary 2. grammer handbook

To be forgiven for the deaths if his wife and children, hercules had to perform,

12 labors

Denotation

A word's dictionary meaning

Who did Aphrodite change into a crimson flower?

Adonis

Who bore the world on their shoulders?

Altas

God of war

Ares

His eye were put on hera's bird and this bird later came to be known as the peacock

Argus

Who created the olive tree and claimed the owl as her bird?

Athena

she is the favorite child of Zeus and got to carry his thunderbolt

Athena

Daphne was...

Changed into a laurel tree to escape apollo

will receive into his boat only the souls of those whose lips hold the passage money that was placed there when they died and were duly buried

Charon

Subjective Description

Convey a highly personal view of the subject and elicit a strong emotional response from reader

Polyphemus is a

Cyclops

Lady of Wild Things and Goddess of Hunt

Diana

In a descriptive essay, what does the thesis usually center on?

Dominant impression

Who did Hera turn against and what was this person condemned to do?

Echo; she as condemned to only use her tongue to repeat what was said to her.

Who was seduced when Zeus transformed himself into a bull

Europa

examples, facts, and quotations are all what?

Evidence

Aphrodite made which statue real?

Galatea

Neptune did what?

Gave the first horse to man

Dionysus

God of wine

who could turn men into stone when they were looked upon

Gorgons

His wife is persephone whom he carried away into the underworld

Hades

How did Jason betray his wife?

He wanted to marry another woman

Zeus's messenger and the God of Commerce and Market is...

Hermes

To help her husband Jason,

Madea killed her brother and betrayed her country

Who was the river titan that encircled all of the earth?

Ocean

Who blinded polyphemus with a pointed stick?

Odysseus and his men

Eurydice could be retrieved from the underworld only if...

Orpheus did not look at her on the journey back to the earth's surface

Who cut off Medusa's head?

Perseus

Son of the sun

Phaethon

First step in the writing process is...

Prewrite

Who can man fire

Prometheus

Story that tell the legend of red mulberries

Pyramus and Thisbe

What story tells the legend of halcyon days

Sexy and Alcyone

Aphrodite was born how?

She sprung from the foam of the sea

Paragraphs filled with ___ engage readers and clarify meaning

Specific details

engages readers, persuades them that the thinking is sound, and clarifies meaning

Specific evidence

What did Hercules do as a baby

Strangled snakes that were put in his crib to kill him

Jason of the Argonauts was in search of...

The Golden Fleece

What is the bird of Zeus?

The eagle

most common POV in academic writing

Third person

A title should attract audience and preview the essay's purpose (True or False)

True

Good readers are normally good writers? (True or False)

True

Revision should occur throughout the writing process (True or False)

True

The topic sentence is usually the first sentence in a paragraph (True or false)

True

by varying sentence types, the writer will wary sentence length as well?

True

reading the material backwards prevents writers from getting caught up in the slow of ideas.

True

imperfect goddess who was ugly and lame

Vulcan

What does the power of description hinge on?

ability to select from all possible details only this that support the dominant impression.

Diana punished opus and Ephialtes by...

allowing each to be pierced by the others spear

intro paragraph

arouses reader's interest, introduces the subject and states the thesis

simple to complex pattern of organization

begins with easy to grasp examples then builds to difficult levels

essay map/plan if development

brief statement in the intro that is part of the thesis. It introduces the major points of the essay.

Daedalus

built his son a pair of wax wings and told him not to fly to close to the sun or they will melt

The three headed dog who guarded the gates of hell

cerberus

Proofreading

checking over for errors

Body of paper

composed of paragraphs that support the thesis

thesis

declares the controlling idea of the paper

Objective description

describe the subject in a straight forward, literal way without revealing feeling.

Your sentence will be ___ if you eliminate redundancy and delete weak phrases

economical

Define description

expression in vivid language. the five sense experience

title

finishing touch to any paper

A ___is a incomplete sentence. It has no subject nor verb

fragment

Sexist language

gives the impression that one gender is more important than the other

Demeter

her chief festival came at harvest time because she was the goddess of corn

Hercules greatest flaw is...

his temper

Pegasus

is a winged horse

Tone

is the writer's attitude towards the subject matter and the audience

Purpose

is what the essay is to accomplish

During revision you should work with printed text because

it helps to see the work impartially

What did thesus do

killed the Minotaur with his bare hands

An assignments sheet indicates what?

length and purpose

Psyche could marry Cupid but she could never

look at him

Titian are...

of enormous size and of incredible strength

The Graiae lived...

on the farther bank of the ocean and had but one eye between them

Once the writer has generated supporting evidence, the writer is ready to...

organize

Coherence

paragraph where all sentences and ideas flow

emphatic

placing the best point/example first or last in the body section

What did Pandora's box contain

plagues, sorrows, and mischief

boomerang

planning technique that invites travel over a subject from opposite directions

Signal devices

provide readers with cues, reminding them where they have been an indicating where they are going

Saturn

ruled over the titans until his son Zues dethroned him and seized power himself

Perseus

son of Danae. was placed in a boat with his mother and cast into the sea to die

Atalanta has the gift of...

speed

Transitional Paragraphs

sum up what has been discussed and the direction of the essay

paragraph development

supporting information/evidence in each paragraph that allows readers to understand the subject matter

Annotate

take notes in margins

Peer Review

the critical reading of another person's writing with the intention of suggesting constructive changes

Topic Sentence

the sentence in a body paragraph that states a main point in support of the thesis

A highly opinionated statement, announcement, and factual statement are to be avoid when creating a...

thesis

working thesis

thesis in planning. it can change

Atalanta was tricked into losing a race and marriage by...

three golden apples

Phaethon's request of his father was...

to drive his chariot

The device used to connect sentences and paragraphs is called...

transition

Each pattern of development/organization has its own internal logic that makes it appropriate for some writing purpose/modes but not for others? (true or false)

true

a paragraph that sticks to its subject is said to have...

unity

Redundancy

unnecessary repetition

Prewriting

writing strategies used ti generate ideas before beginning paper