Part 4: Writing to Evaluate Mortimer's Style Answers

Which of these are examples of strong evidence? Check all that apply.

The purpose of adding relevant evidence to a paragraph is to

Which sentence uses precise, domain-specific wording?

Read the literary analysis paragraph.Shakespeare’s writing style reveals information about attitudes toward the landscape. His precise word choice provides detailed descriptions of the outdoors. In Titus Andronicus, he uses words like "ruthless,” "vast,” and "gloomy” to describe forests. Although he is known as the "playwright’s playwright,” Shakespeare could have been a travel guide.

Before writing her essay, Larissa asked herself the following question.What is my goal for writing?

When a reader evaluates an author’s style, the reader

At what point should a writer introduce evidence in a paragraph?

Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.There are no roads across this wasteland, only track ways. Elizabethans see it as good for nothing but pasture, tin mining, and the steady water supply it provides by way of the rivers that rise there. Many people are afraid of such moors and forests. They are "the ruthless, vast and gloomy woods . . . by nature made for murders and for rapes,” as Shakespeare writes in Titus Andronicus. Certainly no one will think of Dartmoor as beautiful. Sixteenth-century artists paint wealthy people, prosperous cities, and food, not landscapes.

Read the beginning of the literary analysis paragraph.The writer has a very accomplished style. His descriptions make the facts more dramatic for the reader.

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Read the sentence.The playwright created a tragedy with nice characterizations.