Real-Talk Rhetoric
Livin' it up with Lit Terms
Amazing Annotations
Nobody Knows it Like Native Speaker
San José High!
100
A persuasion technique that relies on offering a logical argument
What is logos?
100
Describes the perspective from which the story is told—the angle and perception of the story
What is point of view?
100
A mark you can use to indicate that you have a question about part of the text.
What is a question mark (?)?
100
The author of Native Speaker.
Who is Chang-Rae Lee?
100
The school mascot.
What is the bulldog?
200
A persuasion technique that relies on evoking emotion out of the reader
What is pathos?
200
Describes the main idea of a text.
What is "central idea"?
200
A mark you can use to indicate that there is a key term or vocabulary that you should pay attention to.
What is the asterisk (*)?
200
What the narrator's wife left for him the day she left.
What is a list?
200
The annual football game between Lincoln High School and San José High School?
What is the "Big Bone" game?
300
A persuasion technique that relies on establishing the credibility of the speaker?
What is ethos?
300
Describes part of an author’s overall argument.
What is "claim"?
300
A mark you can use to indicate that you are surprised by what you are reading.
What is two exclamation marks? (!!)
300
What I would call the main message or morale of the story.
What is the "theme"?
300
The year the school opened.
What is 1863?
400
Describes the rhetorical device in the following statement: "Can you spare $1 a day? With your generous donation, you could save a child from starvation."
What is pathos?
400
Describes the overall feeling of the passage. How the reader feels.
What is "mood"?
400
A mark you can use to indicate that it is important for the author's argument.
What is an exclamation mark (!)?
400
The vocabulary word I would be analyzing if I were to consider why the author started the text the way he did.
What is "text structure"?
400
The date of back-to-school night.
What is September 5?
500
Describe the rhetorical device in the following statement: "Elect me as your site representative. I have been an employee at this company for over 20 years, and I have the skills necessary to provide services for you."
What is ethos?
500
Describes the author's word choice.
What is "diction"?
500
It is easier to do this type of activity when you annotate your text.
What is studying?
500
The vocabulary word I would be analyzing if I were to consider why the author chose to use specific words?
What is "diction"?
500
The name of the engineering program on campus.
What is PLTW?
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