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This type of irony occurs when what actually happens is meaningfully different from what the reader expects.
What is situational irony?
This character receives the report that her husband has died in a railroad disaster.
Who is Louise Mallard?
Who is the Wheatleys' daughter?
Facts, evidence, examples, and logical reasoning are used to create this rhetorical appeal.
What is logos?
This part of a story introduces characters, setting, background information, and the starting situation.
What is exposition?
This literary device makes a brief reference to a famous person, story, myth, historical event, place, or text.
What is an allusion?
This object allows Louise to feel the Spring air, see patches of blue sky, birds, and new life outside. This feature of Louise's room suggests renewal and possibility.
What is the open window?
Wheatley primarily addresses members of this religious group while challenging their racial prejudice.
Who are Christians?
Language intended to create emotions such as anger, sympathy, fear, or pride makes this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
A struggle between opposing forces—such as character vs. self, society, nature, or another person—is called this.
What is conflict?
Unlike a one-word topic, this is a complete message about life, people, or society developed by a text.
What is theme?
Louise's private words about freedom allow readers to infer her feelings rather than having the narrator directly state them, making this the type of characterization being used.
What is indirect characterization?
Wheatley's poem argues that this religious possibility is available to all people regardless of race.
What is Christian salvation (or redemption)?
The Declaration identifies life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as examples of these rights possessed simply by being human.
What are natural rights?
Customs, beliefs, traditions, family roles, expectations, and social rules are all parts of this type of setting.
What is cultural setting?
Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, and Looks make up the acronym students can use to analyze this type of characterization.
What is indirect characterization?
The report of Mr. Mallard's death serves this plot function because it disrupts the opening situation and begins the central conflict.
What is the inciting incident?
Wheatley refers to this biblical figure whose "mark" was later wrongly connected with Blackness by racist interpretations.
Who is Cain?
The Declaration's long list of complaints against King George III functions primarily as this type of rhetorical appeal because the grievances provide evidence for the argument.
What is logos?
A narrator who uses "he," "she," or "they" but reveals the thoughts and perceptions of only one central character uses this point of view.
What is third-person limited?
Fate, chance, or a higher power frustrating a person's plans is associated with this specific type of irony.
What is cosmic irony?
The contrast between the enclosed Mallard house and the open and active spring world outside helps develop this major idea of the story. What is personal freedom?
What is personal freedom?
The contradiction between racial prejudice and the Christian belief that redemption is available to everyone helps develop this idea in Wheatley's poem, which involves boarding the "angelic train.
What is spiritual equality?
At the end of the Declaration, the representatives formally announce this political action and pledge their lives, fortunes, and honor in support of it.
What is declaring the colonies free and independent from Britain?
Following expectations is compliance; doubting them is questioning; actively doing this to the expectations is rebellion.
What is resisting them?