Bias vs Unbias/Extras/Random
Bias means:
prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What poetic device is being used in the following line of the Raven? "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before"
Alliteration
This type of rhetorical device is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response to an impassioned plea or a convincing story.
Pathos
“The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers”
Personification
Sand and Sieve
the futility of trying to grasp and retain knowledge, where the sand signifies the knowledge itself (truth) and the sieve represents the human mind, which struggles to hold onto that knowledge, allowing it to slip through like sand through the holes in a sieve
Definition of unbiased:
showing no prejudice for or against something; impartial
"Hold steady. Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. We depend on you. I don't think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now."
Pathos
an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text is:
Allusion
"The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the gray head off a dry dandelion flower"
Metaphor
The "L" Button
the bad outcome that will happen to Will if he leaves the elevator and goes into the lobby
Sarah Koenig choosing to not introduce Jay on a personal level until episode 8 and 12 is an example of:
Bias
What type of figurative language is present? "Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority"
Hyperbole
“Random Thoughts” Poems- how do they correlate to Will’s inner feelings throughout the elevator ride? and How do they connect to Will’s Dad?
Varied answers accepted
“A great nuzzling gout of fire leapt out to lap at the books and knock them against the wall”
Personification
self-reflection, self-understanding, and the need to examine society's flaws
"Now imagine you have to account for a day that happened six weeks back. Because that's the situation in the story I'm working on in which a bunch of teenagers had to recall a day six weeks earlier. And it was 1999, so they had to do it without the benefit of texts or Facebook or Instagram."
Bias- this isn't just "any old day" this is a day his ex girlfriend went missing
What poetic device is being used in the following line: "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping"
Internal Rhyme
The following line from Shakespeare's sonnet 130 is an example of which type of figurative language?
"I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound"
Metaphor
"Walk carefully. Guard your health. If anything should happen to Harris, you are the Book of Ecclesiastes"
Allusion
Poker Game
Montag secretly rebels against the oppressive society, with his actions and thoughts carefully concealed like a poker player's hand, fearing that any "tell" could expose his true intentions and put him in danger
What is the main theme, or life lesson, behind Jason Reynold's novel, Long Way Down?
Varried answers.
“I later fact checked all these accolades, of course, and learned that Rabia was mostly right, though she sometimes gets a little loosey-goosey with the details."
This carries what type of connotation?
positive connotation
What are Faber's three in SPECIFIC terms, and how do they connect to the theme of F451?
1. Quailty and texture of information
2. Leisure to digest
3. The right to protest or act based on what one has learned from the first two
"Twice in half an hour, Montag had to rise from the game to go to the latrine to wash his hands. When he came back he hid his hands under the table"
Allusion to Lady Macbeth
Uncle Mark's Camera
representing a desire to document the realities of his community, particularly the struggles and lives of those around him, but also highlights the tragic consequences of losing that creative outlet, leading him down a destructive path of drug dealing to regain it.