English 122
Reading Quiz
Extra Credit
Week 9—Chapter 3
1. Thinking rhetorically about subject matter means that you do what?
2. What does Peter Elbow, the writer in the epigraph of the chapter, mean when he says,
“meaning is not what you start out with but what you end up with”?
3. What are the two ways to create a surprising thesis?
4. What does it mean to give your thesis “tension”?
5. What are “particulars” according to your text?
6. What does “angle of vision?” refer to?