Lit. Elements
A contrast between two characters that allows a specific character (usually the protagonist)to stand out more distinctly. Characterization occurs through character comparison and interaction. This is most commonly done between round and flat characters or protagonist and antagonist.
F.O.I.L
.... is the narrator’s attitude toward the events or characters being described in the story.
Tone
A character addresses Death not as an occurrence of nature but as an individual who may commit malicious acts. Here an author employs what type of figurative language?
Personification
What type of evidence deals with numbers, charts, or figures?
Facts and statistics
In this brief phase, the conflict has been resolved, and balance is restored. This was traditionally used to tell "the moral of the story, but today often leaves readers to ponder the possible meanings of what came before.
Denouement
Some word choices, or a diction strategy, employ meaning beyond the word's actual definition. This is known as what?
Connotation
Within a debate one arguer establishes a negative association with their competitor's overall point by establishing a separate but related point or topic within their claim. They then proceed to argue against that instead of their competitor's primary argument. What type of fallacy is this arguer committing?
Straw Man Fallacy
A writer recounts a story that a colleague once told them to support a claim. This is what type of evidence?
Anecdote or anecdotal evidence
A character speaks a certain way due to the time period of a story. They dress in certain clothes, and listen to certain types of music, all pertaining to their era. As an author employs these details they are attempting to establish what?
Zeitgeist
An author consistently compares a character's beauty to a garden. It occurs both across chapters and is also, at times, elongated into an entire paragraph. This is known as a what?
Extended Metaphor
An author uses an excessive amount of commas, conjunctions, and other grammatical techniques to extend a sentence rhythmically or to exaggerate a point. What type of figurative language/syntactical strategy is being used here?
Polysyndeton
The author chooses to use testimonies of experts that have already voiced opposition to the counterclaim being presented. What type of bias is this?
Bias of selection or omission
A man may forgive his father for his flaws but that does not mean that he will repeat his father's mistakes.
The above line is a strong example of what Literary element from the play Fences.
A Theme
“I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering.” (39).
What stylistic element is utilized to demonstrate both visual and internal change in this scene? Provide one example from the text.
Imagery
A man purchases stress relief candles to help with his anxiety. He then falls asleep after feeling so relaxed by the scents and the candles end up burning his house down.
This type of figurative language/stylistic elements can best be described as?
Irony/Situational Irony
A reporter carefully interviews bystanders that were near an event but were not able to attend due to security. The reporter works for a company that also owns the stadium where the event took place. This could be an example of what type of bias?
Source Control Bias
A reader discerns that a character is a member of a working class from a lower socio-economic designation due to their clothing, the way they speak to other characters, and the callouses formed on their palms. The reader is analyzing what? Or rather the author has employed what?
Indirect Characterization
“George was coming down in the telemark position, kneeling, one leg forward and bent, the other trailing, his sticks hanging like some insect’s thin legs, kicking up puffs of snow, and finally the whole kneeling, trailing figure coming around in a beautiful right curve, crouching, the legs shot forward and back, the body leaning out against the swing, the sticks accenting the curve like points of light all in a cloud of snow.”
This is an example of what type of sentence?
Cumulative
You have as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do winning the lottery. Therefore, if you ever get struck by lightning you should buy a lottery ticket because you will probably win.
Is this a logical fallacy, and if so, which one?
False Analogy or False Equivalency
... in literature is a point yielded to an opposing perspective during an argument. It allows a writer to acknowledge that information presented by an opponent has some amount of validity and should be considered.
Concession