The Hero's Journey
Rhetorical Appeals
Grammar
Term Definitions
Term Examples
100

What is the last step of the hero's journey called?

Return with the elixir

100

Name this appeal: to logic

Logos

100

Identify what one of the letters stands for in FANBOYS.

For

And
Nor

But

Or

Yet

So

100

This is the turning point of the story

Climax

100

Which literary and/or poetic device is this an example of?

How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!

(From "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe)

Onomatopoeia

200

Name this step of the hero's journey: the hero is hesitant to begin the journey

Refusal of the call

200

Name this appeal: to credibility/celebrity

Ethos

200

Is this a complete sentence or a fragment?

They flew.

Complete sentence

200

This is the rhyming pattern in the poem labeled in alphabetical order

Rhyme scheme

200

Which literary and/or poetic device is this an example of?

I ate a spicy pepper

From my brother on a dare.

The pepper caught my head on fire

And burned off all my hair.


(From "I Ate a Spicy Pepper" by Kenn Nesbitt)

Hyperbole

300

Name this step of the hero's journey: the final obstacle for the hero

Resurrection 

300

Name this appeal: to emotion

Pathos

300

Is this a compete sentence or a fragment?

The Bulldog BBQ in August.

Fragment

300

This involves copying a source exactly or near exactly and trying to pass it off as your own work

Plagiarism

300

Which literary and/or poetic device is this an example of?

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -


(From "Hope is a thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson)

Metaphor

400

Romeo confiding in Benvolio about Rosaline in Act I most closely matches which step of the hero’s journey?

Meeting the mentor

400

An influencer doing a sponsored post for a nutritional supplement is an example of which type of appeal?

Ethos

400

True or false, the italicized part of this sentence is the dependent clause: 

My dad takes pictures any time he sees a scenic background.

True

"Any time he sees a scenic background" is not a complete thought; it needs the independent clause ("my dad takes pictures") for the sentence to make sense.

400

What is called when the audience knows something the characters do not?

Dramatic irony

400

Which literary and/or poetic device is this an example of?

If you had known the virtue of the ring,
Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,
If you did know for whom I gave the ring
And would conceive for what I gave the ring
And how unwillingly I left the ring
When nought would be accepted but the ring
You would abate the strength of your displeasure.

(From Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice)

Epistrophe

500

Juror #8 asking for a vote and vowing to go along with the group if he’s the only hold out most closely matches which step of the hero’s journey?

Approach to the innermost cave

500

The music switching to something slow and melancholy (depressing) when a contestant is kicked off a show is an example of which appeal?

Pathos

500

True or false, the italicized part of this sentence is the independent clause: 

Whenever I go to the movies, I sneak in my own food.

False

"Whenever I go to the movies" is a dependent clause; it cannot stand on its own as a sentence.

500

This refers to who is delivering the information and how their impression of the world influences the information

Perspective

500

Which literary and/or poetic device is this an example of?

Withstand pandemonium
and scandalous
nightstands
commanding candlelight

         and
         quicksand

(From "And" by Nicole Sealey)

Assonance

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