One of the “Previously On” videos this week includes the following suggestion: “Think of yourself as using words to construct ideas.” Which concept does this suggestion help review?
The video that reviewed sentence flow included an excerpt from the book The Content Trap by management professor Bharat Anand.
“Franchises and sequels, covers and same-name apps, vertical integration and bundling, backward spillovers and traffic machines—all are responses to the challenge of getting noticed. The solutions are all similar: Use _______ products to market unknown ones.”
Fill in the missing word. The approach Anand recommends shares a lot with our concept of moving from “old information to new information.”
The American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton signed a letter to his wife Eliza on July 4, 1804 in the following way.
“Adieu best of wives and best of women.”
The “best of wives and best of women” part is an example of _____________.
The readings mentioned a speech given by the American civil rights activist Malcolm X in Cleveland, Ohio in 1964. The title of that speech is “The Ballot or the ______.”
One of the classroom clips included a line of poetry from Robert Frost’s 1914 poem “Mending Wall” that is a good example of parallel structure. Identify it below.
Both the readings and the videos mention an observation by the 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal that nicely captures the idea of parallel structure. Identify it below.
One of the class clips used a painting by Leonardo DaVinci to illustrate the idea of parallel structure. Identify that painting below.
True or False: The following sentence from the American poet Mary Oliver conforms with standard conventions of punctuation.
“Language is rich, and malleable.”
Which of these is not an example of the “omit” move—otherwise known as “ellipsis”—covered in Chapter 7 of Good with Words (“Corresponding Ideas in Corresponding Places)? The move involves leaving out an implied word or phrase from what would otherwise be a perfect parallel structure construction.
True or False: The following parallel structure statements about the U.S. criminal justice system appeared in Chapter 7 of Good with Words.
“We have a system that treats you better if you are poor and guilty than if you’re rich and innocent.”