Persuasive Techniques
This is an appeal to audience emotion
What is Pathos
This character wants to invest in a liquor store.
Who is Walter
This is a work that ridicules its subject through the use of a number of techniques in order to make a comment or criticism.
What is satire?
This character died by getting a boulder pushed onto them.
Who is Piggy?
The title Raisin in the Sun comes from this.
What is kairos
This character wants to pursue a career as a doctor.
Who is Beneatha?
This is an imitation of a person, place, or thing.
What is a parody?
This is the term for the kind of story that Lord of the Flies is.
What is an alleogry?
Mama's plant is a symbol for this.
This is an appearl to logic and reason, often using facts, data, and statistics.
What is Logos
This character treasurers their house plant.
Who is Mama?
This presents the opposite of normal order.
What is reversal?
This character represents democracy.
Ralph
Mr. Linder saying he is a member of the neighborhood welcoming committee would be an example of this type of irony, given his real reason for being there.
What is situational irony.
This is an appeal to ethics, often persuading someone with character or credibility.
This character attempts to buy out the Youngers and keep them from moving into their new house.
Who is Mr. Linder?
What is Incongruity?
This character represents totalitarianism.
Who is Jack.
This is the type of irony that allows us to know that Walter spent the money on the liquor store and not on its intended purpose.
What is dramatic.
This is meant to be distracting or misleading.
What is red herring?
This character's death allowed the family to get a $10000 insurance payout.
Who is Big Walter?
This is made to enlarge, exaggerate, or increase a representation of something beyond the normal bounds in order that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be clearly seen.
What is hyperbole.
The Lord of the Flies (pig's head on the stake) symbolizes this.
Who is Satan or the devil?
Walter can be viewed as this type of character after he changes his mind and rejects Mr. Linder's offer.
Dynamic.