Vocab 1
This verb means to adjust or change to fit a new condition.
What is Adapt?
A general literary technique where there is a sharp contrast between expectation and reality.
What is Irony?
This verb means to examine something in detail to understand it better, like reading a poem carefully to uncover hidden meaning.
What is Analyze?
The famous American author who PUBLISHED "Cannibalism in the Cars" in 1868.
Who is Mark Twain?
Literature that uses humor, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose, criticize, and mock people's stupidity or vices.
What is Satire?
An adjective that means believable or trustworthy, which you should always use for your research paper sources.
What is Credible?
Twain's attitude towards politicians and government committees in this story can best be described using this tone.
What is Mocking? (also Cynical/Derisive/Satirical)
Name two other stories or novels written by Mark Twain
Many possible answers.
This adjective describes someone who is able to express ideas clearly, fluently, and effectively.
What is articulate?
This specific type of Irony occurs when a speaker says one thing but means the exact opposite, often manifesting as sarcasm.
What is Verbal Irony?
This verb means to expect or predict something before it happens, like a football defense trying to guess the quarterback's next pass.
What is Anticipate?
Twain creates a dark comedic contrast between formal, polite legislative language and this gruesome topic.
What is cannibalism?
This specific type of Irony happens when the actual outcome of an even is totally different or contrary to what was expected.
What is Situational Irony?
A noun defined as a serious disagreement, argument, dispute, or clash.
What is conflict?
The setting of both the story and the story within the story in Cannibalism in the Cars.
What is a train?
Daily Double!!
What was Mark Twain's real name?
Samuel Clemens
Daily Double!
This adjective describes someone who is able to express ideas clearly, fluently, and effectively.
What is Articulate?
The art of effective and persuasive speaking or writing.
What is Rhetoric?
This verb means to strive for or aim at a high goal, like young athletes aiming to compete in the Olympic Games.
What is Aspire?
The literary technique did Twain used when he overstated the severity of the snowstorm or the length of the political debates to make his social critiques clear.
What is Exaggeration?
The rhetorical appeal to logic, intellect, reason and structured evidence through facts or logical arguments.
What is Logos?
Daily Double!!
Showing care, effort, and persistence in work duties, like a student reviewing flashcards every single night.
What is Diligent?
The sharp contrast between the narrator's calm, polite tone and the horrific subject matter of the story is an example of this rhetorical technique.
What is Juxtaposition?
Where did Mark Twain's pen name come from?
What is "Marking the twain" when he was a riverboat piolet.
A preference or prejudice for or against something, such as a referee favoring the home team.
What is Bias?
The rhetorical appeal to character, credibility, and ethics to establish trust.
What is Ethos?
A noun representing sympathy, empathy, and deep concern for others, such as volunteers helping flood victims.
What is Compassion?
Daily Double!
The social flaw Twain exposes when the passenger's voting outcomes secretly reveal their hidden favor or prejudice towards certain delegates. (also a vocab word!)
What is Bias?
This type of Irony occurs when the audience or reader knows crucial information that the characters themselves are unaware of.
What is Dramatic Irony.
To recognize or point out differences between things, like trying to tell identical twins apart.
What is Distinguish?
Daily.....TRIPLE!
The reader's growing realization that the stranger is insane creates this type of suspense during his conversation with Twain.
What is Dramatic Irony (or dramatic tension)
What year did Cannibalism in the Cars TAKE PLACE?
1853
To work together to achieve a common goal, such as students teaming up to finish a science project.
What is Collaborate?
The satirical technique of imitating the style or techniques of a person, place, or thing in order to ridicule the orginal.
What is Parody?
A noun defined as a result or effect of an action, such as missing sports practice leading to less playing time.
What is Consequence?
When the second story teller relies on his reputation as a polite, elderly gentleman to make Twain (and the reader) trust him, he is using this rhetorical appeal.
What is Ethos?
This type of Satire presents things out of place or absurd to their surroundings to highlight structural folly.
What in Incongruity?
To support or justify an idea, argument, or thesis using evidence from a text.
What is Defend?
The narrator of the inner story displays this psychological trait when he describes eating his fellow politicians with polite fondness.
What is Madness/Insanity
What river did Mark Twain pilot a boat on?
The Mississippi.