Tools of Analysis
In persuasive speech, this tactic is employed when the speaker appeals to their audience using emotion, trying to garner empathy for their cause
What is pathos?
This word refers to all of the choices an author makes to give their narrative a distinct, entertaining, and engaging voice
What is craft?
This method of story-sharing and cultural memory is crucial to cultures like many early Native American cultures who did not possess written language
What is oral storytelling?
The rise and fall of action in a story that gives the narrative movement and purpose
What is plot?
This is the state reptile of Texas and the mascot of Mr. E's college
What is the horned frog?
This acronym can and should be used for poetry analysis and asks the reader to consider the title twice
What is TPCASTT?
What is a metaphor?
This kind of story is told to explain the truths and mysteries about the beginning of the natural world that might otherwise be explained by scientific inquiry
What is a creation myth?
One of the eminent authors in American History, he is a famous pioneer of Gothic literatures whose stories often end in bleak fashion, reflecting his melancholy view of life
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
This activity involves adding short notes into a text in order to boost comprehension
What is annotation?
In persuasive speech, this is employed when a speaker invokes their own trustworthiness or the credibility of another to make their argument stronger
What is ethos?
A way of speaking about the subject of one's writing that is less direct or makes use of a comparison but which adds critical or artful detal about the subject
What is figurative language?
The main antagonist of Native American people in the last two centuries; have made and enforced several policies which have disenfranchised Native people and taken away their land for various reasons
Who is the U.S. Government?
This kind of tension in a story occurs when a character has opposing views or feelings about their situation
What is internal conflict?
His real name was William Sydney Porter; he worked as a pharmacist and was once a fugitive from the law in addition to writing many famous short stories
Who is O. Henry?
In persuasive speech, this is invoked when a speaker references facts or figures to convince their audience of the validity of the speaker's message
What is logos?
A literary device which occurs when a narrator or character says one thing but implies or means a different thing
What is verbal irony?
Native American spirituality and storytelling places particular emphasis on this number as it relates to the cardinal directions
What is the number 4?
In French it is "Denouement", but in English it is the wrapping-up point of the narrative where the main conflicts of the story have been neutralized
What is the Resolution?
This Native American language was the most popular language for creating codes during WWII
What is Navajo?
Literally, this word means "an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning"; in poetry analysis, it calls attention to the figurative language a poet uses in his or her work
What is connotation?
What is tone?
This group of Native American warriors brought attention to both the resilient spirit of Native people and the hypocritical position of the U.S. towards Native populations, whose language the U.S. demanded access too even when they'd pushed for the eradication of Native languages ten years earlier.
Who are the Code Talkers?
In this short story by O. Henry, one of the protagonists finds the strength to survive her pneumonia diagnosis because of the kindness of one of her fellow artists, who succumbs to pneumonia himself in a classic twist of situational irony.
What is "The Last Leaf"?
What is the rhetorical triangle?