Short Stories and Poetry
The poem that begins "Glory be to God for dappled things." (Bonus 100 points for author's name as well.)
What is "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins?
The primary section of the speech where the speaker offers proof for the case. Usually arguments are ordered from least to most important.
What is confirmatio?
A type of word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
He said, "There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
He claims that the purpose of beauty is purely related to the evolutionary instinct to select a mate.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The shape and location of Georgiana's birthmark in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"
What is a red handprint on her cheek?
The brief outlining of arguments to come. Usually a thesis goes here.
What is partitio?
An optional comma that comes after the second last item in a list.
What is an Oxford comma?
He said, "Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
Who is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?
He claims that beauty in architecture and people requires symmetry and due proportion
Who is Vitruvius?
He wrote the poem "She Walks in Beauty"
Who is Lord Byron?
The introduction to the speech. The goal here is to catch the audience's attention and preview what the speech is about.
What is exordium?
A grammatically incorrect sentence that is missing either a subject or a predicate.
What is a sentence fragment?
She said "A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out."
Who is Virginia Woolf?
He claims that behind everything truly beautiful is the divine, and it is through out souls that we perceive that beauty.
Who is Plotinus?
The type of leaf (from which plant) that is painted on the wall in O. Henry's "The Last Leaf"
What is ivy/an ivy leaf?
The statement of key facts, definitions, and history relating to the topic. It helps the audience understand what the speech is all about.
What is narratio?
Small words such as a, an, and the that indicate whether a noun is definite or indefinite.
What are articles?
He said, "In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
Who is Immanuel Kant?
She claims that the definition of beauty continues to expand depending on what a particular culture and time period needs to express.
Who is Christine Perrin?
Both "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allen Poe stem from this Greek myth.
What is the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea?
The conclusion of a speech, in which the orator wraps up her case.
What is peroratio?
The word for a verb with an -ing ending that is functioning as a noun within a sentence.
What is a gerund?
He said, "A hero is a man who does what he can."
Who is Romain Rolland?
He claims that nature is a powerful conduit of beauty, and beauty, truth, and goodness are "different faces of the same All"
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?