Rhetoric
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Plot Chart
Argument
Figurative Language
100
This is when an author repeats the same exact words several times in a speech.
What is repetition?
100
When they first get to her apartment, Roger is afraid Luella will do this to him.
What is turn him in to the police?
100
This is where conflict in the story is introduced. This is when the story starts to get better and more exciting
What is Rising Action?
100
This is when you use a quote from an article to prove your ideas and opinions are right.
What is Evidence?
100
The baby in the stroller was like an octopus trying to grab everything on the low shelves at the store.
What is simile?
200
A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
200
Roger loses his balance because of this.
What is the purse is too heavy?
200
This is the most exciting part of the story, and is when plot of the story changes direction.
What is Climax?
200
When you provide the opposite side of your argument is can be called two things.
What is a Rebuttal or a Counterclaim?
200
The clouds danced through the sky on the windy day.
What is personification?
300
This is an example of a rhetorical device: “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” - John F. Kennedy
What is parallelism?
300
Luella makes Roger do this when they get to her apartment.
What is she makes Roger wash his face?
300
Here is where the setting of the story and the main characters are introduced.
What is Exposition?
300
This is when you look for articles that will help you to prove your ideas are best.
What is Research?
300
Her soft hair was silk.
What is metaphor?
400
"We have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice."
What is extended metaphor?
400
We infer this because Roger has no money, wears dirty clothes and has a dirty face.
What is homeless or neglected?
400
This is basically the part of the story that comes after the climax. This is everything that happens after the conflict changes.
What is Falling Action?
400
When using a quote, providing the article's title and the author's name is called this.
What is Citation?
400
It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets.
What is hyperbole?
500
“We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities."
What is repetition?
500
According to Luella, this would have made his feet burn if he had stolen money from her.
What is buying shoes with the devils money?
500
This is how the conflict, or problem, is fixed.
What is Resolution?
500
Providing your opinion and the reasons why your opinion is right.
What is claim or thesis?
500
When he heard his grandmother was coming for a visit, he bounced around the house like a rubber ball!
What is simile?
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