Rhetoric & Argument
This is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.
What is rhetoric?
This theme highlights how Nazis treated Jews as less than human.
What is dehumanization?
Pi practices multiple religions because of his belief in this.
What is the power and beauty of faith?
This is a speech delivered by a character to other characters on stage.
What is a monologue?
This sentence expresses the main argument in an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
Including this strengthens an argument by addressing opposing views
What is a counterargument?
This relationship is central to Elie Wiesel’s experience in Night.
What is the father-son relationship?
This is a central question of the novel: Is it better for a story to be __ or ____?
What is true or inspirational?
This term describes a tragic protagonist whose flaws lead to downfall.
What is a tragic hero?
This statement reveals the deeper message of a work of literature.
What is a theme statement?
These are three main rhetorical appeals.
What is ethos, logos, pathos?
Elie Wiesel writes the memoir to emphasize this responsibility.
What is the importance of memory and bearing witness?
Pi's survival journey reflects this theme related to instinct and will.
What is survival?
This is the difference between a soliloquy and an aside.
What is a soliloquy is a long speech alone on stage; an aside is a short remark to the audience or self, unheard by other characters.
These are the four steps for analyzing figurative language.
What is Gathering Ideas, Planning the Essay, Finalizing the Essay, and Drafting the Essay?
This acronym helps analyze the rhetorical situation of a text.
What is SOAPSTone?
This major theme explores the questioning of spiritual beliefs during the Holocaust.
What is the loss of faith?
The novel contrasts science and this other mode of understanding the world.
What is religion (or nature/faith)?
This is the pattern of iambic pentameter.
What is unstressed-stressed syllables (five feet per line)?
A strong thesis should do these three things.
What is a clear stance, be specific, and a claim worth proving?
These three components make up the rhetorical triangle.
What are speaker, audience, and message?
This theme reflects how people cling to life in extreme conditions.
What is the struggle for survival?
This aspect of storytelling matters most to Pi and the author.
What is belief and meaning, not just facts?
Shakespeare used apostrophes to do this.
What is to fit poetic meter and to mimic natural speech in Elizabethan England?
When organizing an essay, a writer should consider these (3) things.
What are clarity, logical structure, and transitions (or audience)?