Annotation
Something that is asked.
What is a question?
A hint in surrounding text that helps readers to infer meaning of unfamiliar words, phrasings, and concepts.
What is a context clue?
To stir into action.
What is incite?
The emotional appeal in rhetoric; pity
What is pathos?
Brenda's age in "Brenda's Got a Baby," by Tupac Shakur.
What is twelve?
A reader's question or comment about a text; you can find these in margins.
What are annotations?
Clues in text that are derived from comparisons.
What are comparison context clues?
Large, vacuous, spacious.
What is capacious?
The appeal to facts, statistics, and logic.
What is logos?
The very first song we played for Song of the Day.
What is "King Rat" by Modest Mouse?
Tracing the development of events and ideas within a text.
What is tracking?
Clues in text that are derived from contrasts.
What are contrast context clues?
An over-the-top comedy that prioritizes action over characterization.
What is a melodrama?
The appeal to credibility and trustworthiness; ethics.
What is ethos?
"Humans are unsettled by entities that look almost, but not quite, human." This is an example of this kind of Aristotelian appeal.
What is pathos?
Making a judgement or decision about something.
What is an evaluation?
Clues in text that are derived from direct definitions.
What are definition context clues?
A form of artistic expression that is esoteric, or individualized for a particular audience.
What is an idiom?
The spaces in which rhetoric is encountered.
What is occasion?
A source's authenticity and credibility is part of this kind of Aristotelian appeal.
What is ethos?
An idea created from textual evidence and one's own background knowledge and critical thinking skills.
What is an inference?
To discern meaning from a text using evidence and one's own critical thinking skills.
What is to infer?
"Television is not the new novel. Television is the old novel." He wrote this in his article.
Who is Mohsin Hamid?
The author's goal in composing rhetoric.
What is purpose?
The name of the Greek tragedy we will be using next week...
What is Antigone?