The message, meaning, or moral of a story.
What is theme?
The place in a book where a table of contents is usually found.
What is the beginning?
A repeated "hissing" sound in multiple words.
What is sibilance?
Arguments using logic, facts, statistics, and evidence.
What is logos?
What is four?
A character who goes through significant change during the story.
What is a dynamic character?
A text description of what is shown in an image.
What is a caption?
A section of a poem; like a paragraph, but for poetry.
What is a stanza?
An argument which goes against the author's argument.
What is a counter-argument?
Mr. Persinger did this important life event in November of 2025.
What is proposed/got engaged?
The event which causes the conflict to begin.
What is the inciting incident?
A list of topics in the text, along with each page which mentions the topics.
What is an index?
Word choice.
What is diction?
An author's defense of their own argument, disproving their opponent's claim.
What is a rebuttal?
Mr. Persinger met this animal at the Erie Zoo in 2026.
What is a red panda or an otter?
The reader knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
An image with clearly labeled parts.
What is a diagram?
A repeated vowel sound in multiple words.
What is assonance?
The Greek word meaning "the art or skill of argument."
What is rhetoric?
Mr. Persinger's favorite cartoon.
What is The Simpsons?
The real-world knowledge needed to understand a story set in a specific time period.
What is historical context?
An author's attitude toward the topic or subject.
What is tone?
The "feeling" associated with a word, instead of its literal meaning.
What is connotation?
The Greek philosopher who named the three types of effective argument.
Who is Aristotle?
Mr. Persinger owns this many Labubus.