Fall Semester Exam 12

Central idea developed throughout a work, the lesson or message.

• Evidence
• Semi-colon
• Theme

Proves the claim

• Topic sentence
• Evidence
• Theme

Joins independent clauses without a conjunction

• semicolon
• period
• comma

Explains how the evidence connects to the claim

• commentary
• synthesis
• topic sentence

Joins two independent clauses with a conjuntion

• comma
• topic sentence
• semi-colon

Combining multiple sources and ideas

• synthesis
• topic sentence
• theme

Evidence integrated into the sentence

• topic sentence
• embedded quote
• commentary

Introduces the main idea of a paragraph

• evidence
• commentary
• topic sentence

Which of the following is the best thesis statement?

• Educated, follows the journey of a young girl from rural Idaho to the PhD program at Cambridge University as she struggles against her family’s devout, isolationist religious beliefs and fights for an education, learning along the way that to be educated is to learn much more about the world than what’s contained in books.
• In Educated, Tara Westover illustrates how education empowers individuals to break free from restrictive environments and reshape their identities, despite the challenges of family loyalty and personal sacrifice.

Based on the paragraph above, which is a inference that can be made about the person's character. “If the coach doesn’t start me in the game tomorrow, I’m going to quit the team,” said Dan. “I’m the best pitcher we have, but I get to pitch only once a week. The coach says that is the rule of the league, but who cares about the rules? I deserve to play, and he’d better let me—or else.”

• He is a selfish.
• He is a nice person.
• He works hard and helps others.