Exam 9: Dividing and Classifying

Dividing and classifying are ______________ images.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -It happens in a flash, based entirely on surface cues , but people use first impressions to make sometimes irreversible judgments.

The ancient rites of male initiation were complicated and subtle experiences which could be imagined better as a continual spiral than as a walk down a road. The spiral could be described as a year which repeats itself in seasons. The four seasons of male development amount to four stages, four steps, and four events, though we all know that seasons run into each other, and repeat. The four seasons, or stages, … are bonding with and separation from the mother; bonding with and separation from the father; finding of the male mother; and the interior marriage or marriage with the Hidden Woman. -Robert Bly -How does the author organize this paragraph?

Which of the following are good examples to use in a division and classification paragraph?

In Sarah Hodgson's paragraph about dogs, how does she use division?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What type of grain is the most healthy?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Choosing ______________ or ________________ milk and yogurt, rather than cheese, gives you important vitamins and minerals and less sodium and fat.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Which personality would make the best police officer? The best president? The best doctor? Explain.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -Which fruits provide extra fiber?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -People who use their eyes and ears for clues are called ___________________.

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. Consider three ideas, proposed in perfect seriousness to explain that greatest of all titillating puzzles-the extinction of dinosaurs. Since these three notions invoke the primally fascinating themes of our culture-sex, drugs, and violence-they surely reside in the category of fascinating claims… . 1. Sex: Testes function only in a narrow range of temperature (those of mammals hang externally in a scrotal sac because internal body temperatures are too high for their proper function). A worldwide rise in temperature at the close of the Cretaceous period caused the testes of dinosaurs to stop functioning and led to their extinction by sterilization of males. 2. Drugs: Angiosperms (flowering plants) first evolved toward the end of the dinosaurs' reign. Many of these plants contain psychoactive agents, avoided by mammals today as a result of their bitter taste. Dinosaurs had neither means to taste the bitterness nor livers effective enough to detoxify the substances. They died of massive overdoses. 3. Disasters: A large comet or asteroid struck the Earth some 65 million years ago, lofting a cloud of dust into the sky and blocking sunlight, thereby suppressing photosynthesis and so drastically lowering world temperatures that dinosaurs and hosts of other creatures became extinct -Stephen Jay Gould -How does the author organize this paragraph?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What do thinkers tend to forget?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Intuitors see the big picture in spite of a tenuous grasp of the details.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Albert Einstein was the classic ______________________.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -They need to be the center of attention at all times, and have a habit of boasting .

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Aside from division/classification, what other rhetorical mode dominates? How do the two modes work together?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -Any food made from wheat, rye, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley, or another cereal grain is part of the_______________.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Sensers are just-the-facts people, and they get that way by using their objective senses, rather than their intuition, to gather information.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -What is the tone of the essay? Why do you think the author uses this tone?

The ancient rites of male initiation were complicated and subtle experiences which could be imagined better as a continual spiral than as a walk down a road. The spiral could be described as a year which repeats itself in seasons. The four seasons of male development amount to four stages, four steps, and four events, though we all know that seasons run into each other, and repeat. The four seasons, or stages, … are bonding with and separation from the mother; bonding with and separation from the father; finding of the male mother; and the interior marriage or marriage with the Hidden Woman. -Robert Bly -What is Bly's general message or purpose in this paragraph?