Carry Your Own Skis
1. Define the following- Persuasive Esssay, Appeals to Reason, Appeals to Emotion, author’s motive, credible, comprehensive, generalizations
2. Define the following vocabulary: entailed, inevitability, collective, forgo, potential, riddled
3. When she asserts that in the mid-sixties "skiing was work," Dolan evidently means
4. What is the writer's tone in this passage from "Carry Your Own Skis"?
Forgo that last run of the day in near darkness, cold and alone and crying because your
siblings have skied on ahead without you? Who'd want to miss all that fun?
A nostalgic
B ironic
C enthusiastic
D factual
5. Dolan says that the reason her mother and her aunt learned to ski was to
6. From Lian Dolan's description of how she learned to ski, you can infer that her mother
emphasized what with her children?
7. What is the following line from "Carry Your Own Skis" an example of?
The real world is riddled with people who have never learned to carry their own skis.…
A a claim supported by statistics
B an expert testimonial
C a generalization
D foreshadowing
8. What does a persuasive essay usually include?
9. What does Lian Dolan mean by the "'carry your own skis' mentality"?
10. What is the author's style in the following passage from "Carry Your Own Skis"?
But me? I would sign up to make the PB&Js and to clean up the mess. I'd load the canoes
onto the truck and take 'em off again. And the tent? I'd put it up and I'd take it down. I didn't
know any different. As a result, I was invited to go on a lot of camping trips. The lodge and
back, baby—that was my attitude.
A elevated and serious
B emotionally charged
C conversational and breezy
D formal and solemn
11. What is the goal of a persuasive essay?
12. In "Carry Your Own Skis," the author says that she really doesn't "get" people like the"blame-shifters" and the "no-RSVPers." Which of the following best describes the language she uses?
A positively charged
B negatively charged
C ambiguous
D neutral
13. The best way to evaluate the persuasive appeals in a persuasive essay is to
14. In her essay, Lian Dolan most likely repeats variations of the phrase "carry your own skis"
in order to
A reinforce the persuasive emotional appeal of her central metaphor.
B emphasize how much she appreciated learning how to ski as a child.
C highlight the importance of doing activities together as a family.
D stress how irresponsibly her siblings behaved sometimes.
15. In "Carry Your Own Skis," how does Lian Dolan support her main idea?