Expository Excerpts
What is expository text?
The message or lesson in life.
What is theme?
This genre of writing includes imagery, figurative language, and special devices such as rhyme.
What is poetry?
The writer's attitude toward his/her audience and subject.
What is tone?
Ethos, Logos, and Pathos help a writer or speaker to connect to their reader or listener.
The main idea or purpose in a piece of informational text (similar to central idea).
What is thesis?
This includes the exposition, a sequence of events, and the resolution.
What is plot?
In a poem, these groups of lines may be a short as a 1 line, or can be many lines.
What is a stanza?
The feeling created in a reader by a piece of writing (created by the writer).
What is mood?
In the speech "A Day Which Will Live in Infamy," Roosevelt repeats the words "Last night,..."
What is repetition?
From the speech "A Day Which Will Live in Infamy," Roosevelt's purpose is to build public support for Congress to declare war with Japan.
What is persuade?
When the reader knows something the character in the text does not.
What is dramatic irony?
In the poem "The Bells," the use of the word bells can possibly suggest obsession.
What is repetition?
When a writer gives details that can be used as a guess based on clues.
What is inference?
In the speech "A Day Which Will Live in Infamy," Roosevelt creates appeal by providing factual information about the exchanges between Japan and the U.S.
What is logos?
From the speech "A Day Which Will Live in Infamy," Roosevelt suggests that the Japanese attack on the U.S. was deliberate and premeditated.
What is inferred central idea in the speech?
A character's setting and experiences motivate their attitudes or the way they think and act the way they do.
What is perspective?
From the poem "The Bells," the bells are being described as being able to scream and shriek, and can feel terror.
What is personification?
Scenes that interrupt the present time of a story to show events from the past.
What is flashback?
In the speech "9/11 Address to the Nation," Bush creates appeal using words such as: moms and dads and evil, despicable acts of terror.."
What is pathos?
From the speech "A Day Which Will Live in Infamy," Roosevelt suggests that the U.S. will use its strength and determination to overcome the enemy.
What is inferred central idea in the speech?
There are two main types of struggles that characters face in a story.
What is external and internal conflict?
In the poem "The Bells," there is a progression of stages of life, from youthful joy to marriage in young adulthood to terror and death in midlife at the end of life.
What is symbolism?
The use of clues to hint at events that will happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
In the speech "9/11 Address to the Nation," Bush creates appeal when he quotes from the Bible; he uses the credibility and moral authority to create comfort to Americans.
What is ethos?