Literary/Rhetorical Devices
Author's Purpose and reasoning
Elements of Plot
Poetry
Unreliable Narrator/POV
100

Name the 3 kinds of irony

Dramatic, Verbal, situational

100
when an author writes for someone to enjoy it
What is entertain
100

What the main character is typically called in a story

What is the protagonist?

100

What is a Quatrain

A stanza with 4 lines

100

What are the three types of POV

First, second, and third person

200
a figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as it had human feelings, thoughts or attitudes
What is personification?
200

What is deductive reasoning based off of?

What is Facts

200

What the villain or conflict character is typically called in a story

What is Antagonist?

200

where do you find the theme in a sonnet?

The couplet at the end

200

What Kind of point of view is classified by they, them, she, him?

Third Person

300

What is a rhetorical question

a question that isn't meant to be answered

300
when an author wants you to know something or teach you about something
What is inform
300

What the main problem of a story is called

What is conflict?

300

What is the rhyme scheme for a sonnet?


DAILY DOUBLEE!!!!!!!!!!

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

300

What is an unreliable narrator?

A narrator you can't trust

400

NAME. THAT. IRONY! A life guard drowns at a pool party

Situational Irony

400

What kind of reasoning is used in this situation?

  • Usually, my partner gets home from work at around 6. It’s now 7 o’clock, so she must be stuck in bad traffic.

What is Abductive?

400
the chain of related events that tells us what happens in a story
What is plot?
400

Name three kinds of poems we talked about in class

sonnets

villanelles

epics

odes

400

What makes a narrator unreliable? (give at least 2 reasons)

Crazy

Biased

Lying

Don't know the full story

First Person (Sometimes)

500
a reference to something in current events, on TV, in history, in literature, and so on
What is an allusion?
500
The giant panda is a bearlike animal that has thick white fur with black markings on its ears, limbs, shoulders, and around its eyes. The giant panda feeds on bamboo forests at high altitudes in western China. It also eats bulbs, roots, eggs, and some small mammals. The cubs are born in late winter. The giant panda is an endangered species and is protected by the Chinese government. Purpose?
What is inform?
500

The solution to the conflict

What is resolution?

500

What is a sonnet? (there are 4 pieces you need to have)

14 lines

3 Quatrains and a couplet

Fixed rhythm and rhyme scheme

10 syllables per line, 5 stressed, 5 unstressed

500

Provide an example from a book or movie of an unreliable narrator, and tell me why they are unreliable?

Answers will vary.

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