Rhetorical Devices
SpringBoard
Forest of Hands and Teeth
SAT/Root Words
Writing
100
A protagonist who is the opposite of a traditional hero; may be incompetent, unlucky, clumsy, dumb, ugly, or clownish.
What is Anti-Hero?
100
The learned behavior and customs of a particular group of people.
What is Culture?
100
Following a large-scale disaster in which civilization has been destroyed or has regressed to a more primitive level.
What is Postapocalptic?
100
honest, frank
What is Candid?
100
Is not considered a complete thought and cannot be a sentence by itself. Example: If Denise comes to class late,
What is Dependent Clause?
200
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances/
What is an example of Metaphor?
200
A belief in or assumption of the superiority of the social or cultural group that a person belongs to
What is Ethnocentrism?
200
Never lose hope no matter how hard times may be.
What is Theme?
200
Lack of emotion or interest.
What is Apathy?
200
My father, a fat, funny man with beautiful eyes and a subversive wit, is trying to decide which of his eight children he will take with him to the county fair."
What is an Appositive?
300
"It doesn't matter whether you are young or old, experienced or inexperienced, rich or poor, you can make a difference in this organization."
What is example of Anti-thesis?
300
The emotional feeling attached to a word, either postive, negative, or neutral.
What is Connotation?
300
Are we merely the yolk of an egg, the Forest the white of the egg, another fence the shell?
What is Metaphor?
300
Root word for old, rule
What is Arch-?
300
Sentence Example: Because I partied all weekend, I never found time to do my homework.
What is Complex Sentence?
400
"But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition." (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream," 1963)
What is example of Anaphora?
400
Indentations, itallics, bolded words, underlined words are examples of....
What is Text Features?
400
A tear gathers in the corner of her eye, the fading sun glinting off it as it bulges and spills down her cheek..
What is Imagery?
400
The verb form of the noun Discernment.
What is Discern?
400
Should cover only what you will discuss in your paper and should be supported with specific evidence. Usually found at the end of the first paragraph. Example: The life of the typical college student is characterized by time spent studying, attending class, and socializing with peers.
What is Thesis Statement?
500
Water: birth-death-resurrection; creation; purification and redemption; fertility and growth. Sea/ocean: the mother of all life; spiritual mystery; death and/or rebirth; timelessness and eternity. Rivers: death and rebirth (baptism); the flowing of time into eternity; transitional phases of the life cycle. . . . Sun (fire and sky are closely related): creative energy; thinking, enlightenment, wisdom, spiritual vision. Rising sun: birth, creation, enlightenment. Setting sun: death. Colors: Red: blood, sacrifice, passion; disorder. Green: growth, hope, fertility. Blue: highly positive; secure; tranquil; spiritual purity. Black: darkness, chaos, mystery, the unknown, death, wisdom, evil, melancholy. White: light, purity, innocence, timelessness; [negative: death, terror, supernatural] Yellow: enlightenment, wisdom. Serpent (snake, worm): symbol of energy and pure force (libido); evil, corruption, sensuality, destruction.
What is Archetype?
500
The author's insight about life.
What is Theme?
500
Transformation of Mary, the protagonist, from beginning to end.
What is Archetypal conflict?
500
Antonym of Futile?
What is Useful?
500
"Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed." (Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales, 1955)
What is a Periodic Sentence?
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