Digital Media
This text type uses short, punchy paragraphs, bulleted lists, and imperative language to convince users to click a "GET" button.
What is an App Store Preview/Advertisement?
This is the specific literary genre of A Long Way Gone, which focuses on a particular phase or time period of the author's own life, rather than their entire life story.
What is a memoir?
In editorial writing, this technique is the inclusion of an opposing viewpoint that challenges your main claim.
What is a counter-argument or counter-claim?
This term refers to an imagined society that is undesirable, frightening, or oppressive, often serving as the direct opposite of a "utopia."
What is dystopia?
An appeal to emotion, values, or shared human experiences in a text.
What is pathos?
This digital feature consists of a user's curated layout of photos and videos arranged in a $3 \times 3$ grid where aesthetic and design heavily come into play.
What is an Instagram Profile/Grid?
This physical item plays a dual role in Ishmael’s life, first appearing as a symbol of his innocent childhood hobby of dance, and later literally saving his life when he is captured.
What is a rap cassette tape?
This global event, run by Amnesty International, uses the power of letters, petitions, and signatures to defend prisoners of conscience and human rights defenders.
What is the Write for Rights campaign?
This teenage neighbor acts as a catalyst for Montag’s awakening by asking him the simple, devastating question: "Are you happy?"
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
Specialized terminology or language associated with a specific field, group, or industry (e.g., using "branding" and "innovation" in the sneaker industry).
What is jargon?
This layout feature, typically found at the very bottom of a website, improves usability by containing a sitemap, copyright information, and contact details.
What is a footer?
This recurring natural symbol is used by Beah throughout the novel, famously changing meaning and even "hiding behind clouds to avoid seeing what was happening."
What is the moon?
This rhetorical technique is used to persuade the reader by establishing the speaker's credibility, authority, or moral character.
What is ethos?
This eight-legged tracking device used by the fire department represents the terrifying misuse of technology to hunt down dissidents.
A term used to describe the author's voice or attitude toward a subject or audience, which can range from formal and academic to emotional and informal.
What is tone?
This specific social media format relies on sequential storytelling across 3 to 4 slides, combining visual-text interactions and short, powerful statements rather than dense paragraphs.
What is a visual carousel post?
These two factions fought against each other in the Sierra Leone Civil War from 1991 to 2002, both committing atrocities and utilizing child soldiers.
What are the Government Forces (and CDF) and the Rebels (or RUF)?
An editorial conclusion should move beyond the basic summary of facts and always end with this specific call to the reader.
What is a call to action?
At the end of the novel, Granger compares humanity to this mythological bird because we constantly destroy ourselves through war but have the unique ability to remember our mistakes and rebuild.
What is the phoenix?
This device is a direct comparison between two dissimilar things to highlight a shared quality, without using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
This YouTuber features thumbnails showing happy family moments in a clean space, evoking the joys of a minimalist lifestyle.
Who is Marie Kondo?
In Chapter 8, Ishmael tells a traditional story about a hunter and these animals, which serves as a deeper metaphor for the terrifying, destructive nature of the war.
What are wild pigs / boars?
This indigenous Sámi leader from Norway was a featured 2025 advocacy case, fighting the government to protect traditional reindeer-herding lands from a wind energy project.
Who is Ellinor Guttorm Utsi?
These are the names of the two distinct elemental entities used as titles for Part 1 and Part 2 of the novel, representing destruction and the frustration of trying to retain knowledge.
What are The Hearth and the Salamander and The Sieve and the Sand?
This persuasive technique plays on the reader’s fear of being excluded, making them feel like "everyone else is buying/doing it, so I should too."
What is the bandwagon effect?