Literary Eras
This literary era focuses on elements of nature, imagination, and dark supernatural forces.
What is American Gothic?
This Latin root means "to write" and appears in words like manuscript and inscription.
What is scrib/script?
In the line "The wind whispered secrets through the trees," this literary device provides human qualities to a non-human element.
What is personification?
This resource would be helpful in verifying the precise meaning (denotation) of words.
What is a dictionary or on-line dictionary?
In an argumentative essay, a writer who cites peer-reviewed studies, uses precise data, and avoids emotional language to strengthen credibility uses this method.
What is rhetorical appeals, specifically Logos?
This literary era's primary focus was nature that included elements of the oversoul and the transparent eyeball.
The Greek root meaning "sound" is found in words like telephone and symphony.
What is phon?
A character spends months preparing for a speech on confidence, only to faint from stage fright when delivering it represents this literary device.
What is situational irony or irony?
This type of resource is often used in academic research and provides specific subject information such as for law, medicine, or literary theory.
What is an encyclopedia?
This element of argument is reflected in the following example: A political editorial uses sharp, sarcastic language to criticize a policy.
What is tone?
This literary viewpoint idealizes the balanced coexistence of spiritual integration with nature.
What are Native American Myths?
This Latin root means "light" and is used in words such as illuminate and lucid.
What is lum/luc?
The recurring idea within a piece of literature that conveys the work's central message.
What is theme?
This resource is used to clarify nuanced differences between similar academic terms using synonyms, antonyms, and usage notes.
This strategy is being used when an author begins with a compelling anecdote, transitions to background information, and then presents a thesis followed by supporting evidence.
What is logical progression or organization?
This literary era represents the shift from focusing on social structure and political liberty to valuing individual emotion, nature, and imagination.
What is Romanticism?
The Greek root means "race" or "kind" and appears in words like homogeneous and genotype.
What is gen?
In The Scarlet Letter, the recurring image of the scarlet "A" and the vivid descriptions of its color, convey these two elements of figurative language.
What is symbolism and imagery?
This is the method of determining the meaning of a technical term in multiple disciplines using multiple primary and secondary sources.
What is cross-referencing?
This element of argument is utilized in the following example: A writer supports their claim about climate change by citing NASA data, referencing peer-reviewed journals, and explaining the logical connection between rising CO2 levels and global temperature.
What is reasoning and evidence?
This literary era utilizes sermons that illustrates the ultimate authority as being derived from theological sovereignty and that God resides in governmental decisions.
What is Colonialism?
This Latin root means "to lead" and is found in words such as induce, conduct, and deduction.
What is duc/duct?
The sentence "She wanted justice, she demanded fairness, she expected truth." uses this element of figurative language.
What is parallel structure or parallism?
This research approach is used to consult the historical development of words in order to understand their Latin roots.
What is the study of etymology?
In a speech advocating for renewable energy, the speaker uses urgent language and vivid imagery of environmental destruction is used to demonstrate the use of this argumentative technique.
What is author's purpose? (Also acceptable: persuasion or Pathos)