How Do You Feel About Poetry?
Term for a group of lines in a poem
What is stanza?
Appeal to reason/logic
What is logos?
(Multiple choice) A synonym for infer:
a. Know
b. Deduce
c. Guess
d. Explain
What is b. deduce?
The character who goes against the main character, possibly the villain of the story
What is antagonist?
Another word for biased
a. subjective
b. objective
What is a. subjective
The following is an example of which type of figurative language: Talking to you is like talking to a brick wall.
The "thesis statement" of an argumentative essay
What is the claim?
What you use to make a logical inference about what you're reading
What is text evidence?
The type of characterization displayed here:
Watson is the dumbest dog I know.
What is direct characterization?
The term for an author's reason for writing a text
What is author's purpose?
Term for the repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry?
What is assonance?
An error in reasoning that invalidates an argument
What is a logical fallacy?
An inference based on the following information:
Marcus studied every night, asked questions in class, and checked his answers carefully before turning in his test.
What is Marcus is a good student/ wants to do well in school/ cares about his education?
Three of the ways an author might indirectly characterize in a work of fiction
What is through the character's words, actions, feelings/thoughts, effect on other characters, and physical appearance?
Synonym for word choice
a. author's claim
b. Dichotomy
c. Diction
d. Structure
What is c. diction?
The two literary devices used in the following lines of poetry:
...their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate/ sky of Spring rains
What are alliteration and imagery? (will also accept symbolism)
The rhetorical appeal used in the following example:
93% of pediatricians agree that giving your child Pedialyte during an illness can help prevent dehydration.
What is ethos?
A logical inference about what led to the following comment from Alice's Adventured in Wonderland:
“‘Suppose we change the subject,’ the March Hare interrupted, yawning.”
What is someone said something boring or uninteresting?
A character who is very developed and shows many sides to their personality
What is a round character?
The text structure of the following:
The two friends started the sleepover by baking cookies. Then, they watched a movie, ate the cookies, and laughed for hours. Finally, they fell asleep around 1:00 AM.
What is sequence/chronological?
Rhyme scheme of this short poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost?
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is AA BB CC DD?
The type reasoning error seen here:
If I don't get this question right, I know I'm going to fail the EOC. If I fail the EOC, I'll have to drop out of Honors. If I drop out of Honors, I'll end up dropping out of school altogether!
What is slippery slope?
A logical inference based on the following:
The narrator describes the painting as “beautiful but unsettling,” focusing on the subject’s smile that “never quite reaches the eyes.”
What is The subject isn't truly happy/ something is disturbing the subject/ the subject is hiding something?
Two literary terms to describe the type of character Curley is in Of Mice and Men
What are static, flat, antagonist?
On the EOC, what word or phrase will they use that is a synonym for "theme" in a written work?
What is "central idea"?