Vocabulary
A person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story.
Who is a character?
Logos, Pathos and Ethos
What are the three types of Rhetorical Appeals?
The highest point of tension in a storyline.
What is the climax of a story?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is the meaning of hyperbole?
The narrator exists outside the events of the story and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they.
Third -person point of view
A universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.
What is a theme?
An appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic.
What is the meaning of logos?
The conclusion of a story's plot.
What is the resolution in a story?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is the meaning of alliteration?
The narrator describes the reader's actions, thoughts, and background using "you.
The second-person point of view
The use of a concrete image to represent an abstract idea.
What is Symbolism?
An appeal to credibility.
What is the meaning of ethos?
The introduction or beginning of a story that reveals important background information.
What is the exposition of a story?
She broke his car and his heart.
What is an example of zeugma?
Uses the pronouns “I,” “me,” “we,” and “us,” to tell a story from the narrator's perspective.
The first-person point of view
A character in a story who is presented as the main enemy and rival of the protagonist.
Who is an antagonist?
An appeal to emotions.
What is the meaning of pathos?
The period in a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution.
What is the falling action in a story?
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is the meaning of irony?
The narrator's attitude toward or the way he/she feels and thinks about something.
What is perspective?
The main character of a story who makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it.
Who is the protagonist?
ASPCA commercials that use photographs of injured puppies, or sad-looking kittens, and slow, depressing music to emotionally persuade their audience to donate money.
What is an example of pathos?
The part of a story that leads up to the most exciting part—the climax.
What is the meaning of rising action?
A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other
What is the meaning of antithesis?
The narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters.
Third-person omniscient