Exam 6: Illustrating

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -But these are normal contingencies of life.

What kind of example should you choose to include in your illustrating paragraph?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -The narrator's mother doesn't like to do the shopping without her daughters because

Answer the following questions about the essay. -______________ is the idea that one's future expectations generally are formulated in line with reasonable observations about the present.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -When the butcher can't understand what the narrator's mother wants, he simply __________ her.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -But the lack of progress in the last century imperiled that plan.

A century ago, the average U.S. citizen lived to be 48. Now we live to an average age of 76-thanks in large part to medical research. Pharmaceutical companies do an excellent job in research, and they increased their research spending from $2 billion in 1980 to $20 billion in 1998. But we can't rely on them for basic research efforts. That's why funding for the National Institutes of Health, which does basic research that can benefit us all, is so important. Its funding has doubled in the last 15 years-to $15 billion. But while $15 billion is a sizable sum, it is inadequate when compared to what we spend on legalized gambling ($638 billion), alcohol ($95 billion), and cigarettes ($50 billion). Two-thirds of Americans agree that funding for medical research should be doubled, according to a poll taken recently by the nonprofit advocacy group Research! America. -Paul Simon -Does Simon include enough examples to make his point? Explain your answer.

How does Lynn Peters Alder organize the examples in her paragraph about the progress women have seen in the last century?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -I mostly loathed the task, partly because it meant I couldn't spend the afternoon off playing catch with my friends but also because I knew our errands would inevitably lead to an awkward scene, and that I would have to speak up to help my mother.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Staying mostly at home to care for us, she didn't have many chances to try out sundry words and phrases.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -The narrator makes her dad laugh by doing what?

Where do good examples for an illustration essay come from?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Do you think that Americans should be more lenient with foreigners' inability to speak the English language? Why or why not?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Chris Lebron begins his essay with one striking sentence: "I don't know how many days are left in my life." Why do you think he begins his essay this way? Is it an effective opening sentence?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Here is another idea that matters for us: rationality .

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. She was the first wife of any president to hold press conferences, to speak before a national Party Convention, to write a syndicated column (it appeared in 135 papers six times a week), to be a radio commentator. She was able to use the office of the First Lady on behalf of the causes she believed in, rather than let it use her, and in so doing she became, in the words of the columnist Raymond Clapper, the "most influential woman of our times." Doris Kearns Goodwin (about Eleanor Roosevelt) -What main idea do you think Goodwin is trying to communicate in this paragraph?

A century ago, the average U.S. citizen lived to be 48. Now we live to an average age of 76-thanks in large part to medical research. Pharmaceutical companies do an excellent job in research, and they increased their research spending from $2 billion in 1980 to $20 billion in 1998. But we can't rely on them for basic research efforts. That's why funding for the National Institutes of Health, which does basic research that can benefit us all, is so important. Its funding has doubled in the last 15 years-to $15 billion. But while $15 billion is a sizable sum, it is inadequate when compared to what we spend on legalized gambling ($638 billion), alcohol ($95 billion), and cigarettes ($50 billion). Two-thirds of Americans agree that funding for medical research should be doubled, according to a poll taken recently by the nonprofit advocacy group Research! America. -Paul Simon -How does each of the author's examples explain the paragraph's main point? List the main examples from the paragraph, and explain how they are related to the topic sentence.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -The mother eventually dies of __________.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -I am not suffering from a terminal disease.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -You may feel I am just being melodramatic in thinking that because I live in America as a black person I am somehow at special risk.