RHETORIC
POETRY
PERSEPOLIS
ALEXIEVICH
3UENALANH1/SL1
100

An appeal to logical reasoning.

What is logos?

100

My love is like a red rose.What is a simile?

What is a simile?

100

Term expressing emotions.

What is emanata?

100

The year Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature 

What is 2015?

100

Number of students in this class.

What is 25?

200

A speaker using or boosting his/her credibility. 

What is ethos? 

200

The trees danced.

What is personification?

200

The year of the Islamic Revolution. 

What is 1979?

200

Alexievich’s nationality 

What is Belarussian?

200

Number of students with a Slavic background. 

What is 1?

300

Anaphora. 

What is the name of the rhetorical device where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of several sentence?

300

Language that is not literal. 

What is figurative language?

300

The language Persepolis was originally written in. 

What is French?

300

The term that best describes Alexievich’s use of “voice”. 

What is polyphony?

300

The number of students that have more than 20% absence in this class

What is 14?

400

“Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country--to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man” (Lyndon B. Johnson, "We Shall Overcome,“ 1965) What is tricolor?

What is tricolon?

400

The equivalent of narrator in poetry.

What is a speaker / voice?

400

The years of the Iran/Iraq War.

What is 1980-88?

400

The overall title of Alexievich’s five books 

What is “Utopia of Voices”?

400

The number of lessons we’ve had in this class

What is 135!

500

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." (Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964) 

What is antithesis?

500

A rare and radiant maiden. 

What is assonance and consonance? 

500

The genre of Satrapi’s work 

What is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel?

500

The three key elements in the Nobel Committee’s motivation.

What is “polyphonic writings, monument to suffering, courage in our time”?

500


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