Is a mode of alerting reality by the creation of discourse, which changes reality through the mediation of thought and action.
What is Rhetoric?
100
“The serpent that did sting thy father’s life.”
What is Trope
100
Author of Coming to an Awareness
Who is Malcolm X?
100
Author of "Shooting an Elephant"?
Who is George Orwell?
100
Author of "Mother Tounge"
Who is Amy Tan
200
An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
What is Epithet?
200
"If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it"
"A barking dog never bites"
What is Aphorism?
200
Where the author learn to read and write
What is prison
200
Where this book takes place
Burma, India
200
Where the author's mother originally came from
Where is China
300
A figure of speech in which a writer raised a question, then immediately provides an answer.
What is Hypophora?
300
“My dear bed”
“O desire”
What is Apostrophe?
300
What was the purpose of reading this in class?
To understand the power of the narrators voice
300
Fill in the blank
"The narrative expresses an ___________"
Argument
300
The purpose of reading this in class
What is seeing how to use rhetorical devices in writing.
400
A form of repetitions where words have the same or similar words appear after each other in the same sentence.
What is Scesis Onomaton?
400
"I know what you're going to say," she cut in, her voice quiet. "I know what you're going to tell me to do. Accept it. Move on. Try to forget about what happened to him."
What is Procatalepsis?
400
What is the author's message?
The importance of reading and writing
400
Why the narrator chose to shoot the elephant
What is pressure from others and his appearance
400
The reason author becomes a writer
Because the author is "rebellious" and enjoys a "challenge"
500
An expository pattern approaching a subject sometimes called "illustration"
What is Exemplification?
500
“I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;
And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;
And how, once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped for her,
And she balanced in the delight of her thought … “
What is Enumeratio
500
In "Coming to an Awareness" the author uses what device in this sentence,
"I saw the best thing I could do was to get a hold of a dictionary- to study, to learn some words."
Distinctio
500
Name 3 devices the writer uses in "Shooting an Elephant"
Colloquialism
Imagery
Figurative Language
Action Verbs
Irony
Paradox
500
In "Mother Tounge" the author uses this device in the following sentence,
"I wanted to capture what language tests can never reveal: her intent, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts."