VOCAB
Define jocular
fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful.
T/F Onomatopoeia is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
FALSE
It is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
EXIGENCE-MOTIVATION/SPARK
ethos, pathos, logos
What did John Muir do for a living?
He was a naturalist
Define Laconic
(of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words.
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Ethos- Ethics (credibility of the person speaking)- Speaker
Pathos-Emotion (how the audience feels)-Audience
Logos-Logic (facts, research, etc.)- Message
List 3 examples of sufficient evidence in an argument
- anecdote
- experiment
- testimony
- statistic
What national park is being discussed in the first passage?
Yosemite
Define Portentous
hinting at something ominous or wrong that may happen-foreshadowing of sorts
Give an example of a personal anecdote
A personal anecdote is a real-life story/ies that often happened to the writer or speaker.
Tone is the speaker/writer's attitude towards the subject of a text
Tone shifts: rhetorical questions, simple sentences, large paragraphs to simple sentences.
Define allusion
UNICEF stands for what?
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
Explain what ethics are
moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
Define Irony and give an example of it
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Explain why it's so important to know the context of a piece of literature.
Context is the circumstances surrounding the writing. Knowing the context of when something/where something was written allows the reader some more insight/knowledge into where the author may have been at the time.
"I have a dream...I have a dream.."
The following is an example of which of the following rhetorical device?
anaphora
The third passage is about who?
Fredrick Douglas
Define the word: Contrived and use it in a sentence
What is a critical audience?
audiences who consider themselves intelligent and probably more intelligent than you. They will thus pick holes in what you say and disbelieve your assertions.
List what each letter stands for
SPEAKER
PURPOSE
AUDIENCE
CONTEXT
EXIGENCE
CHOICES
APPEALS
TONE
"I started questioning gender-based assumptions when at eight i was confused at being called "bossy," because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on for our parents-"
The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
Anecdote
What year was the weekly feature of The New York Times Magazine's column by Randy Cohen called "The Ethicist," published?
2003