Rhetorical Devices
This is when an author describes a character's personality or attributes, either directly or indirectly.
What is Characterization?
As your doctor, I am recommending that you get a flu shot. Even though flu shots are painful, I am a medical professional, and I know how effective they are at preventing illness.
What is Ethos?
What is the exposition?
When a student knows that the work is boring, but they feel responsible to complete it so they will get a good grade in the class.
What is man vs self conflict?
Things Fall Apart Takes place in this African country.
What is Nigeria?
This is when an author uses language that appeals to any of a reader's five senses, in order to create a vivid image in the reader's mind.
What is Imagery?
What is pathos?
This is the middle, or most dramatic part of a story.
What is the climax?
When a parent and their child disagree about what to eat for dinner.
What is man vs man conflict?
This U.S. city is the birth place of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
What is Baltimore?
This is when a reader includes a short mini-story within their larger argument, in order to prove a point.
What is an anecdote?
Students at Dewitt Clinton should be able to leave for lunch because they are in high school and independent enough to handle this responsibility.
What is logos?
This is the end of a story.
What is the resolution?
When a character is a Muslim, but they live in a mostly Christian community, which leads to discrimination.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of this book that we read.
What is Between the World and Me?
This is how the text makes you feel.
What is tone?
Who is the ancient Greek philosopher that came up with names of the three rhetorical appeals?
Who is Aristotle?
What is rising action?
When you really want a cat, but you know you shouldn't because your landlord does not allow animals.
In Things Fall Apart, this character is described as aggressive, masculine, and ill-tempered.
Who is Okonkwo?
This is when an author includes some sort of disagreement or struggle in the text, either within one character, between two characters, or between a character and a whole group of people.
What is conflict?
When I was a student, I went through the same stressful classes as you did, so I understand the pressure you have to do well in all of your classes.
What is Ethos?
This is towards the end of the book, when the conflict begins to be solved and the drama decreases.
What is falling action?
When you finally move into a nice house, and then it is destroyed in a forest fire.
What is man vs. nature?
Between the World and Me is addressed as a letter to this person.
Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates' son?