An argument that appeals to logic or reason
What is a logical appeal or logos?
pattern of similar sounds, often occurring at the ends of lines
What is a rhyme?
In literature, the atmosphere and word choice contribute to this emotional response by the reader
What is the mood?
a story that is based on true or real-life circumstances
What is non-fiction?
“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be"
What is a simile?
An argument that appeals to our emotions or heart
What is the emotional appeal or pathos?
repetition of consonant sounds ( Love’s Labour’s Lost is an interesting comedy by William Shakespeare.
What is alliteration?
the attitude of the writer or speaker about their subject
What is tone?
A personal narrative that may focus on one specific time period or event from a person's history
What is a memoir?
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.”
What is a metaphor?
An argument that appeals to our sense of right and wrong
What is an ethical appeal or ethos?
repetition of vowel sounds (once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary)
What is assonance?
This occurs when the reader or audience knows something before the characters.
What is dramatic irony?
A story within a story that often makes use of multiple plot lines or flashbacks to create the structure
What is a frame story?
"Oh I am Fortune's fool!"
What is personification?
A logical fallacy based on the assumption that the opinion of the majority is always valid: that is, everyone believes it, so you should too
What is bandwagon?
moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark
Autumn showing off colors slowly
Letting the splendid colors
Flow softly to earth below.
What is an enjambment?
When someone speaks directly to someone who is not present or is dead, or speaks to an inanimate object.
What is an apostrophe?
a traditional story, often religious in nature, concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events
What is a myth?
a startling contrast, at times humorous and other times serious, created by an overstatement:
"I cannot live without you."
"I am absolutely starving."
"I'm freezing to death."
What is hyperbole?
A type of logical fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue.
What is a red herring?
A statement that has a seemingly incorrect supposition, but when we look deep into its meaning, we see the truth.
“The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave, that is Rainbow in her womb…”
What is a paradox?
a typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature.
What is an archetype?
a traditional story, secular in nature, concerning the early history of a people or a hero's journey or quest; often teaches a simple moral lesson
What is a folktale?
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
What is an allusion?