Literary Basics
How the audience feels after reading a text.
What is mood?
Using visually descriptive language that creates a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
Research shows that 75% of students spend too much time on their phones.
What is logos?
Name the rhetorical device: perfectly prompt problems require rapid responses.
What is alliteration?
Name the fallacy: if we let teachers bring their kids to school, what's next? Their dogs and cats? Their pet fish and lizards? Their parents and siblings? Pretty soon the school will be overcrowded.
What is slippery slope?
The main idea or subject of a text.
What is theme?
A symbolic story that requires interpretation to uncover a hidden meaning.
What is allegory?
Please give me another chance on this assignment. My parents will be so disappointed if they see I failed the test.
What is pathos?
Name the rhetorical device: this exam review is never going to end.
What is hyperbole?
Name the fallacy: my opponent is a dirty, rotten scoundrel with bad breath.
What is ad hominem?
The message or lesson that an author tries to convey.
What is purpose?
A term to describe the total result of all the unique choices that an author makes when writing.
What is writer's voice?
Doctors all over the country agree that ultra-processed foods are bad for you.
What is ethos?
Name the rhetorical device: this Jeopardy-style review is like a breath of fresh air.
What is simile?
Nate the fallacy: you make some good points, but most people agree with me so I must be right.
What is ad populum?
The emotions an author puts into a text.
What is tone?
The unique word choice that an author uses.
What is diction?
If you are failing 1st hour because you keep falling asleep, you either need to get more sleep or drink some caffeine in the morning.
What is logos?
Name the rhetorical device: before break I felt like Einstein, but after two weeks I've forgotten everything!
What is allusion?
Name the fallacy: sure, eating healthy food is important, but students should have the freedom to go anywhere in the building during lunch.
What is red herring?
If you feel upset and sad after reading a text, that is an example of...
What is mood?
The unique word order that an author uses.
What is syntax?
Based on years of study and practice, I can promise that this product works.
What is ethos?
Name the rhetorical device: reviewing for an exam is a lot like practicing a sport - the more time and effort you put in, the better the results become.
What is analogy?
Name the fallacy: my parents barely let me go out - I might as well be a prisoner.
What is false equivalence?