Figurative Language
Rhetorical Devices
Elements of an Argument
Characterization
Misc.
100
The making of pictures into words
What is imagery?
100
"A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets."
What is irony?
100
A school voucher program provides parents with certificates that are used to pay for education at a school of their choice, rather than the public school to which they are assigned. Charter schools on the other hand are publicly funded schools that have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools. As Americans we enjoy choices and often associate choice as something positive. Being able to choose a school may sound like a reasonable initiative on the surface, but after a closer look it has serious problems. SCHOOL CHOICE TURNS OUT NOT TO ONLY BE A BAD IDEA; IT'S ALSO A VIOLATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION.
What is a claim/thesis?
100
"Karen is bright, energetic and helpful."
What is direct characterization?
100
"The whole team felt DEJECTED after they lost the final game. They all hung their heads."
What is sad?
200
"She is as lovely as a summer day."
What is simile?
200
The appeal to emotion
What is pathos?
200
An argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument.
What is a counterargument?
200
"If you want to kill Harry, you'll have to kill us too!" Ron shouted. (JK Rowling)
What is indirect characterization through speech?
200
"I hope the judges in the beauty contest are IMPARTIAL and not biased."
What is fair?
300
"All religion, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree." (Albert Einstein)
What is metaphor?
300
"side by side" comparison of two objects or ideals to highlight similarities or differences
What is juxtaposition?
300
At the center of the divided opinions is whether or not it is constitutional for the federal government to give money directly to private schools, many of which are religiously based. ACCORDING TO THE NEA “ABOUT 85 PERCENT OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE RELIGIOUS. VOUCHERS TEND TO BE A MEANS OF CIRCUMVENTING THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROHIBITIONS AGAINST SUBSIDIZING RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND INSTRUCTION [NEA].”
What is evidence?
300
"[A man] who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin." (Charles Dickens)
What is indirect characterization through actions?
300
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” (Shakespeare)
What is rhetorical question?
400
"The fire swallowed the forest."
What is personification?
400
"As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results."
What is ethos?
400
IT CAN BE SEEN THAT CHARTER SCHOOLS AND VOUCHER PROGRAMS, WHILE ATTRACTIVE AT FIRST, FADE UNDER CLOSER EXAMINATION. Instead consider that for decades how public education has suffered from lack of proper funding. Without proper funding, public schools have never had a legitimate chance to succeed. Why don’t people pursue a simple answer to a simple problem? American’s should fund the public schools adequately so they can get the job done. It’s a simple answer that will work.
What is a conclusion?
400
"The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue. . . ." (Charles Dickens)
What is indirection characterization through looks?
400
“And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.” (Donald Barthelme)
What is died/dead/brown sticks/depressing?
500
Exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant literally
What is hyperbole?
500
"She loves eating chocolate eclairs, taking moonlit walks, and singing classic jazz."
What is parallelism?
500
Two notable companies are Green Dot, which is the leading public school operator in Los Angeles (Green Dot), and KIPP, which operates 65 schools in 19 different states [KIPP]. These companies represent a growing trend of privatization of public schools by large corporations. IT IS FEARED THAT THESE CORPORATIONS COULD GROW TO A POINT THAT PUBLIC CONTROL OF EDUCATION WOULD BE LOST. EDUCATION POLICY WOULD BE LEFT IN THE HANDS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL THINK TANKS, CORPORATE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS, AND LOBBYISTS WHO ARE MORE INTERESTED IN PROFIT THEN EDUCATING STUDENTS.
What is analysis of evidence?
500
"I jumped up, knocking over my chair, and had reached the door when Mama called, 'Pick up that chair, sit down again, and say excuse me.'" (James Hurst)
What is indirection characterization through effect on others?
500
"There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none. A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do. It was dense enough to shut out everything from the light of the coach-lamps but these its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all." (Charles Dickens)
What is forlorness/evil/A clammy and intensely cold mist/unwholesome/dense enough to shut out everything from the light/labouring horses/etc?
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