We Read That?
What is the allegory of the cave?
"Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan."
What is appeal to emotion?
Substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant.
What is a euphemism?
You must use at least 3 of the sources.
What is the synthesis essay?
Also called a thesis– answers the question “What are you trying to prove?
What is a claim?
He said "it is safer to be feared than loved"?
Who is Machiavelli?
"Now I'm guilt stricken, sobbing with my head on the floor, stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice."
What is appeal to emotion?
An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work
What is an allusion?
Essay where you explain the effect of the author's choices on the audience.
What is the rhetorical analysis?
An unexpected twist or contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen?
What is irony?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj635laKpY0
The moment when John tears up the confession.
What is the climax?
"Indeed, even Steve Barr, the founder of Green Dot Public Schools lauded by "Waiting for Superman" as one of the leaders of the charter school movement, is vocally pro-union. In fact, all 17 of his charter schools are fully unionized, and the one in Bronx opened as a result of direct collaboration between Green Dot and the AFT."
What is appeal to authority
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
What is an oxymoron?
Often you will be asked to agree/disagree/qualify a quotation
What is argument/free response?
Having identical or very similar sentence structure. Example: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
What is parallel structure?
The title of the book this excerpt comes from:
One curious thing he had noticed, the very first day, in his profession of shoveler of guts; which was the sharp trick of the floor bosses whenever there chanced to come a "slunk" calf. Any man who knows anything about butchering knows that the flesh of a cow that is about to calve, or has just calved, is not fit for food. . . it was Jurgis' task to slide them into the trap, calves and all, and on the floor below they took out these "slunk" calves, and butchered them for meat, and used even the skins of them.
What is "The Jungle"?
"It used to be that machines automated work, giving us more time to do other things, but now machines automate the production of attention-consuming information, which takes our time. For example, if one person sends the same e-mail message to ten people, then ten people (in theory) should give it their attention. And that's a low-end example."
What is appeal to logic
A question not answered by the writer because its answer is obvious or obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no. It is used for effect, emphasis, or provocation, or for drawing a conclusionary statement from the facts at hand.
What is a rhetorical question?
Multiple choice is worth this percent of the test.
What is 45%?
Compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one.
What is an analogy?
This scene is thematically important because it represents:
What is the end of the mohicans/indians, the evolution of the frontier, the human cost of progress?
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more devine in the lapse of all the ages.
What is appeal to authority
Placing two very different things together for effect.
What is juxtaposition?
What is synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argument?
"Opportunity was knocking at her door."
What is personification?