Literary Terms
The life lesson or moral of the story
Theme
The assignment you completed to assess your skills at the very end of the unit after reading "Spider the Artist"
APEC paragraph
The three rhetorical appeals that authors/creators use to convince someone of their ideas
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
The author of The Odyssey
Homer (or -- not known for sure)
The last names of the feuding families
Montague and Capulet
A series of events that build tension and develop conflict in a story
Rising Action
What the robot spiders in "Spider the Artist" were protecting
Oil pipelines
A celebrity in a commercial would be an example of this
Ethos
Someone who uses power (magic, beauty, intellect) to make others weak or to lure them away from their task AND an example from The Odyssey
The Temptress (or Seductress) AND Circe
A long speech given to a group of characters
Monologue
Language that creates a heightened effect through exaggeration
Hyperbole
The summative you completed to assess theme after reading "The Paper Menagerie"
A thematic one-pager
The author of "Comb Jelly"
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The name of the Cyclops
Polyphemus
Groups of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph
Stanza
STEAL is an acronym that can be used to help us analyze an author's use of indirect characterization. It stands for...
Speech, Thoughts, Effects on Others, Actions, Looks
The genre of the short story, "The Paper Menagerie"
Magical realism
The title of the essay by Hanif Abdurraqib about sports
"The Face of the Devasted Sports Fan"
A larger panel, sometimes even a half-page that emphasizes an important moment
Splash panel
A type of poem frequently written by Shakespeare that is composed of 14 lines and uses an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme
Sonnet
The intentional choice of words used in writing or speaking
Diction
Udide
The animal that John Green describes jumping off cliffs (in addition to penguins) in his essay, "Penguins of Madagascar"
Lemmings
A symbol or pattern repeated across multiple stories
The name of the messenger who tells Romeo that Juliet has died (when she is actually still alive)
Balthasar