Part I – Grammar Label the part of speech of the underlined words or phrases in the following sentences. (If the word is a noun, say the type of noun; if a verb, say the type of verb.) 1) The store by my house was closed, so I decided to go to the store near the school. 2) The New York Giants, the worst team this year, lost the game on Sunday. 3) The ball is stuck in the tree. What kind of sentence structure is the following sentence? 4) The test was hard, but I passed with flying colors. Answer the following questions about punctuation usage. 5) Give two (2) reasons why a colon might be used. 6) What is the possessive of the word buses? Part II – Description 1) What are the things we emphasized in class about good description writing? Part III – Parts of an Essay 1) Let’s say a writer is stumped and does not know how to open an essay. What are three (3) ways the writer can begin the essay? 2) What questions should a thesis statement answer? 3) “The stronger the counter-claim, the stronger the argument.” Explain this phrase. Part IV – Sources, Research, and MLA 1) Is Wikipedia a credible source? How might we use Wikipedia for research? 2) Give three (3) examples of credible sources for research. 3) Why do we not want “stand alone quotations” in our essay? 4) True or False: Everything should be double spaced according to MLA guidelines. 5) Should punctuation be placed before or after an in-text citation? 6) How should the Work’s Cited entry for a work in an anthology be ordered/written? Part V – Contrast Below are pairs of things that seem to be very similar at first glance. Choose one (1) pair and, in a brief paragraph, say how the items/elements of the pair are actually very different from each other. 1) Knowledge / Wisdom 2) Reading a physical book / Reading a book online Part VI – Rhetoric and Logic 1) Which rhetorical appeal has the highest reward but also the highest risk? Why? 2) When we discussed logos in class, I said that people tend to get logos wrong. What is logos, based on our class lesson? 3) Which logical fallacy is the “bandwagon” fallacy? 4) Which logical fallacy do you think people these days tend to fall into the most? Explain. (No “right answer” here, but I do need an explanation that makes sense.) 5) What is the most important aspect/part of rhetoric? Part VII – Argumentation Choose something you like—regardless of how trivial it may sound—and, in a brief paragraph, persuade me to like it too. Perhaps you can use one of the argumentative tactics that we discussed in class to help you.