Vocab in Action
This story brackets another story or group of stories to create a story within a story.
What is frame story?
This first-person narrative flashback tells us what the narrative is thinking and feeling.
What is interior story?
The scene was gut-wrenching. All around me, people futilely cried for help, the desperation in their voice already a lament for the corpses the medics were too late to save.
The underlined words are an example of this type of language.
What is charged?
This type of story uses its out-of-order structure to create mystery, curiosity, or suspense. It also helps the reader better understand a character.
What is frame story?
This nonfiction work attempts to persuade readers to accept the author's POV. It includes a claim, evidence, and reasoning.
What is argument?
This part of "The Seventh Man" allows the audience to be a fly-on-the-wall observer and bookends the interior story.
What is the frame?
As René Descartes once said, "I think, therefore I am." By this reasoning, Robert is not in this room with us because Robert does not exist because he does not think.
The underlined is an example of this mode of persuasion.
What is ethos or the appeal to authority?
Soundgarden's song "The Day I Tried to Live" is ultimately a hopeful song despite its melancholy feel. Cornell expresses his frustration with feeling like an outsider with vivid imagery but returns to the line "One more time around might do it."
This underlined is an example of this part of an argument.
What is the claim/central idea?
This Latin root means "death."
What is mort-?
Survivor's guilt, loss, and self-forgiveness are examples of these in "The Seventh Man."
What are topics?
Your money can support an animal in need. These animals have been mistreated and left outside to freeze. Your support can ensure they eat today. Be the reason they can live.
This example is an example of this method of persuasion.
What is pathos or the appeal to emotion?
He said, "Go straight home. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200."
He said that you should probably hurry home.
The underlined statement is an example of this in relation to the "evidence," the quote listed above it.What is summary?
This Latin suffix changes a verb into a noun to express action, state, or the condition of.
What is -tion?
This concept is a universal statement or claim about human nature based on or inferred from the literature he or she reads.
What is theme?
If I do my homework, then I will get good grades. By getting good grades, I can get into a good college, where I can then major in art. After graduating with an art degree, I will be unemployed.
This is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is logos or the appeal to logic?
"Sand rains down and here I sit, holding rare flowers in a tomb, in bloom. Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved. See my heart, I decorate it like a grave."
The speaker's figurative language about death and burial demonstrate his fragile emotional state, which could be either tied to a breakup or underlying depression.
The underlined is an example of this type of reasoning used in an argument.
What is analysis?
The part of an argument uses analysis or the explanation of specific details to create logos and/or pathos.
What is reasoning?
A shift in point of view is one example of the difference between the frame and interior stories. A change in _______ is another.
What is setting?
Poe offers his reader insight into [his process of] composition, however truthful it may be, in “The Philosophy of Composition.” Essentially, he explains that he builds the poem over a specific structure of his choosing (“The Philosophy of” 646). He believes that something even as simple as the length of the poem lends itself as a merit...Indeed, Poe’s approach seems to be the opposite of how a poet typically composes a poem; content is often prioritized over structure. Both must be present to create beauty.
This is perhaps why Poe remains popular in literary circles. Scholars such as Darlene Harbour Unrue try to classify Poe into neat boxes – as a Romantic, a Gothic, or even a Transcendentalist writer, and yet he does not fit (113-114). An exception must be made for Poe.
This example uses these two modes of persuasion to create an argument.
What are ethos and logos?
Claim: Acid Bath is the best sludge metal band.
Evidence: Thousands of people have bought tickets to Acid Bath's concerts. Many shows have already sold out. Concerts are now scheduled internationally.
This process allows us to see why our evidence does not support our claim well.
What is evaluation?