Rhetoric
What is personification?
Giving human qualities to inhuman things
What text structure uses similarities and differences between two or more things to convey its ideas?
Compare and contrast
What is perspective?
perspective relates to the way a topic within a text is interpreted by the author-- the filter the authors brings to the text, etc.
What is theme?
Theme is the lesson, message, idea or take-away that the author uses the story to convey.
What is tone?
Tone is the general attitude that the narrator, character, or author takes towards the subject or text.
Which rhetorical device uses language that addresses the reader's senses?
Imagery
What text structure explains how and/or why something happened?
Cause and effect
What is point of view and how is is different from perspective?
point of view is the literal view from where the story is being told. Examples include first person, second person, third person, etc.
POV is different from perspective because it relates to the character, not the author.
What is universal theme?
Universal them is a theme that relates to all mankind and can be applied across cultures and texts.
What is mood?
Mood refers to the emotional or general atmosphere of the text.
What allusion is conveyed in these lines from "The Latin Deli"?
"and to the Cubans perfecting their speech
of a "glorious return" to Havana -- where no one
has been allowed to die and nothing to change until then;"
It is an allusion to the country of Cuban and it's complicated history.
What is the difference between a chronological text structure and sequence text structure?
A sequence is a specific order of events or steps of a process, and chronological order is the order of things in terms of time.
What cultural aspects does the author infuse into her poem?
Provide examples from the poem.
specific foods, maternal figure who works in the store, childhood candies
Which of the following literary elements could be used to develop a universal theme in a text?
A. Rhetoric
B. Text structure
C. Perspective
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
What is the difference between tone and mood?
Tone is how the narrator/characters/author feel about their subject, and mood is how the text makes you feel.
A president is giving a speech on poverty in America.
He tells his listeners that it is their moral responsibility to help reduce poverty.
What kind of rhetorical appeal is he making?
Ethos-He is making an ethical/moral appeal.
A manual telling you about having a flat tire and then how to change it would be an example of which text structure?
Problem and solution
How is the perspective of the author important to consider when reading "A Latin Deli?"
The cultural background of the author suggests that she is familiar with the cultural importance of the latin deli.
What example from the text supports the theme of unity in "The Latin Deli?"
All of the different nationalities, the presiding shopkeeper, the patroness of exiles, the old man and his grocery list.
What is the tone of the Latin Deli?
Nostalgic, comfort seeking, homesick
Which rhetorical device can be found in these lines.
"the fragile old man lost in the folds
of his winter coat, who brings her lists of items
that he reads to her like poetry,"
Simile
What is the poetic structure of “The Latin Deli” poem? (free verse, sonnet, haiku, limerick)?
Free verse
What is the POV in these lines:
You walk into the room and see something new.
Something you have never seen before.
Is is dark, and looming, and mysterious.
You feel afraid.
Second person.
What example from "The Latin Deli" supports the idea that the customers are home sick?
They look for the familiar-- their favorite foods, talking about their home countries, their memories.
What Mood is conveyed in these lines:
“whose needs she must divine, conjuring up products
from places that now exist only in their hearts—
closed ports she must trade with.”
Homesickness, comfort providing