Elements of Fiction
This is a major idea or concept that a work of literature comments on.
Theme
When you are asked to determine the meter of a line of poetry you might be asked to ______ it.
Scan
The Greek term for a rhetorician's appeal to logic.
Logos
"The Shot"
This poet wrote about the results of anger.
A character who is minimally developed—a minor character.
The attribution of human qualities to a non-human thing.
Personification
A well-developed counter argument is a common example of this rhetorical appeal.
Appeal to credibility
Joy preferred to go by this name.
Hulga
This poet wrote about a beautiful day during wartime.
Amy Lowell
The pattern of events in a work of literature.
Plot
A figure of speech in which one thing is said to "be" another.
Metaphor
This structure of argumentation has been around for thousands of years.
Classical oration
In this story, we saw the world from a little boy's perspective.
"Boy on a Train"
This poet loved to write about America.
Walt Whitman
This part of Freytag's pyramid is the opening of a story—before the plot really gets going.
Exposition
The sound pattern contained in this line: "Blame Lola for spilling the milk."
Consonance
When I appeal to a well-known authority on a subject I am using this appeal.
Appeal to logic (logos)
Y Block: This character died "without any illusions."
A Block: This character learned how the other half lives.
Y: Paco
A: Laura
This poet wrote about the joys of being a rock or grass.
Emily Dickinson
This narrative perspective blends the narrator's and the character's language.
Third-person limited OR free indirect style
A line of poetry that consists of six of the following foot: - - /
Anapestic hexameter
This rhetorical appeal can be misused by tyrants and would-be dictators.
Pathos (appeal to emotion)
Manley Pointer carries one of these in his suitcase.
Playing cards with dirty pictures OR whiskey OR a certain prophylactic device
This poet used vernacular to reflect on Black life in America.
Gwendolyn Brooks