Language
This is the term for the author's attitude toward the subject matter.
What is tone?
This is the term for the author's choice of words.
What is diction?
This is when a story is told by one character and reflects his/her experiences and point of view.
What is first person narration?
This logical fallacy is when someone draws a conclusion based on limited evidence.
What is hasty generalization?
This is a fundamental idea or message that resonates across cultures and time periods
What is Universal Theme?
This term best describes the emotional atmosphere or feeling that a text creates for the reader.
What is mood?
We use this term when an author uses extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole.
This type of narrative has clear symbolic representations and tells a story on two levels
What is Allegory?
This logical fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person making an argument rather than addressing the argument itself.
What is Ad Hominem?
This king realized he had killed his father and married his mother, proving that a person can not escape their destiny.
Who is Oedipus?
This is the term for the actual literal definition of a work.
What is denotation?
This is a character whose traits contrast with and highlight another character's qualities.
What is a foil?
This information is directly stated in a text and requires no interpretation.
What is explicit?
This logical fallacy attempts to persuade you to believe something is true because many people believe it.
What is Bandwagon?
In the novel, Ellen Foster, food represents this concept.
What is love?
The words an author chooses NOT to use are just as important as the ones they do use. This is an example the power of analyzing this term.
What is diction?
This is when an object in a story has a literal meaning, but also represents a larger idea or concept.
What is symbolism?
When messages in the text are understood through context and inference we use this term.
What is implicit?
"Most people are buying electric cars now, so we should too." This is an example what type of fallacy?
What is Bandwagon?
What is setting?
The word "childlike" versus "childish" demonstrates the importance of knowing this term.
What is connotation.
This is what we call an object that represent a the same thing in almost all literature.
What is a universal symbol?
This shapes how readers understand and relate to the story and its characters.
What is cultural and historical perspective?
"Don't listen to Dr. Smith's medical advice because she got divorced twice, " is an example of this type of fallacy.
What Ad Hominem
This is a short story we read which teaches that we should try to understand other people's perspectives, and when we don't, bad things can happen.
What is, "The Blue Stones"?