Souped Up Style
This device is used to give human attributes to abstract concepts or non-human objects.
What is personification?
A short, self-contained story
What is an anecdote?
A noun or verb that indicates a differing opinion, often a less popular or subordinate position.
What is dissent?
This refers to the time and place, including geographical, socio-historical, and cultural locales of a story.
What is the setting?
The appeal to a reader's personal experiences or emotions in order to evoke feeling.
What is pathos?
Two things are placed beside one another or close to each other to create a contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
A type of clever intelligence.
What is astute?
What is didactic?
This refers to the choice of words, whether formal, informal, colloquial or slang, used in a piece of writing
What is diction?
An appeal to character or credibility to earn a reader's trust.
What is ethos?
A direct comparison that used the words "like" or "as" to add concreteness or visualization to an abstract concept.
What is a simile?
What is alliteration?
The final part of a story when the plot resolves.
What is denouement?
This is a universal idea, message or lesson that is explored in a literary work.
What is a theme?
This is intended to influence readers to believe in a specific idea or opinion.
What is persuasive writing?
The comparison of two unlike object, concepts, or actions in which characteristics of the first comparison figuratively transfer to the second comparison.
What is a metaphor?
An adjective that means good-natured and friendly.
What is affable?
A form of respect, submitting to one's superior.
What is deference?
The construction or description of a person's physical and non-physical traits.
What is characterization?
To appeal to a reader's sense of reason through the use of facts and statistics.
What is logos?
This term refers to the tension or anticipation that is created when the readers know something that the characters do not, understanding the full significance of the action.
What is irony? BONUS! Double your points if you responded "What is dramatic irony?"
What is avarice?
The clashing of two unharmonious sounds, ideas, or concepts.
What is dissonance?
This part of a story provides readers with background information such as setting or characters and sets the mood for the story.
What is the exposition?
This is a model the reflects the balance of ethos, pathos, and logos in order to create effective communication.
What is the rhetorical triangle?