WGU TBP1 English Composition 1 UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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WGU TBP1 English Composition 1
UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Slippery Slope - CORRECT ANSWER- Asserting that a *single event will lead to a
series of much larger events.*
Ad Hominem - CORRECT ANSWER- To attack the *person instead of the arguement.*
Straw Man - CORRECT AN...
WGU TBP1 English Composition 1
UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Slippery Slope - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Asserting that a *single event will lead to a
series of much larger events.*
Ad Hominem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- To attack the *person instead of the arguement.*
Straw Man - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Arguing a *misrepresentation of you oppositions
position.*
Hasty Generalization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Draws a *conclusion about an entire
population without a large enough sample size to base claim on.*
Message - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the idea that is related and will depend on the speaker,
the audience, and the context.
Context - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- is the environment in which the message is sent or
received.
abstract nouns - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A noun that is an idea or concept; examples
include love, friendship, and freedom.
active reading - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Reading strategies such as identifying the main
claim and major points, asking questions of the author, underlining evidence, and identifying
appeals that help readers stay engaged in reading, and therefore improve comprehension and
retention.
active voice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The voice of a verb shows whether the subject of
the sentence is performing the verb or having the verb performed on it. The active voice is
desired in academic writing because it's often more concise and clear. For example: A
organization's executives should lead employees toward effective change is written using
,active voice, while Employees should be led toward effective change by the organization's
executives is passive.
adjective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An adjective describes a noun.
adverb - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An adverb is a modifier that describes a verb or
adjective.
aesthetic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Aesthetic criteria address attributes of a topic that are
beautiful, attractive, tasteful, artistic, or pleasing to the senses.
aggregate data - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Data that has been collected from two or more
sources.
analogies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Expressions that show relationships between two sets
of terms.
anaphora - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The intentional repetition of a group of words at the
beginning of successive sentences.
annotated bibliography - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A list of sources (books, journals,
websites, periodicals, etc.) one has used for researching a topic that includes a summary
and/or evaluation of each of the sources.
antecedent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An antecedent is the word that a pronoun refers to.
antithesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The side-by-side placement of contrasting words or
ideas, often written in parallel structure.
apostrophe - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A literary device-refers to the act of addressing
something that cannot answer back.
, appeal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A strategy for persuading an audience. Ethos, pathos, and
logos are appeals to the author's credibility, shared values with the audience, and logic or
reason.
appositive - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A noun or noun phrase that serves to define or clarify
the main noun and follows it immediately.
argument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A type of writing or speech designed to persuade an
audience to adopt the author's point of view.
attitude - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The reflection of the author's feelings on the subject he
or she is writing about; often recognizable through the tone the author uses.
audience - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Those that a communication is prepared for. The
audience for your research paper includes your graders, but the graders are standing in for a
general academic audience, which can be defined as an audience that isn't an expert in your
topic but that is willing to learn new things if the information is presented in an interesting
and professional way.
cause-and-effect argument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A cause-and-effect argument
analyzes why something has happened or what happened as a result of an event or situation.
clarity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The quality or state of being clear. Clarity is effected by
using sentence structures that make the meaning of sentences easily understandable and by
using precise language.
clause - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Any group of words; clauses can be independent or
dependent/subordinate.
Cliché - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A phrase that has been used so much and is so familiar
that it has become powerless.
comma splice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A grammatical error in which two sentences or
parts of sentence are joined by a comma, but they are not coordinated in a way that makes it
clear which sentence is designed to be independent
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