Literary Terms
Non- fiction Terms
Reading
People
Rhetorical devices
100
a short written or oral account of an event from a person's life
What is anecdote
100
the story of a person's life written by that person
What is autobiography
100
In "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes" we learn that Ghana used to be the center of?
What is the international slave trade
100
who was a Greek philosopher and scientist?
What is Aristotle
100
a statement that can be proven
What is fact
200
the quality of a literary work that makes the characters and their situations seem funny, amusing or ludicrous
What is humor
200
a specific type of persuasive writing that relies only on logic reason and evidence to convince the reader
What is argument
200
Franklin believes once people begin rising earlier what will happen
What is it will become a habit
200
grew up in Arkansas, over came many struggles, and is a celebrated poet
What is Maya Angelou
200
someone view, belief, or way of thinking
What is opinion
300
a short pointed statement that expresses a wise or clever observation about human experience
What is aphorism
300
a work of nonfiction that tells the story of important historical events or developments
What is historical narrative
300
What was Helen Keller's first abstract word she understood
What is "think"
300
the father of aphorisms, creator of "Poor Richard's Almanac" and a founding father of our country
What is Ben Franklin.
300
what are the three rhetorical devices Aristotle theorized (came up with) and what does each word mean?
What is ethos - credibility logos - logic/ reason pathos - emotion/ feeling
400
persuasive techniques used by public speakers and writers of literary works, especially those written to persuade an audience.
What is rhetorical devices
400
what are the five different types of non-fiction
What is autobiography, biography, personal essay, expository essay, and persuasive essay/speech
400
in "That One man's Profit is Another's Loss" Montaigne believes human beings act the way they do out of
What is natural instinct
400
Tells their story to show the difficulties people who are blind and/or deaf face
Who is Helen Keller
400
Tiger Woods endorses Nike example of?
What is ethos
500
a contrasting relationship between two ideas
What is antithesis
500
how is a graphic novel different from a comic book? (3 ways)
What is they are longer than the standard comic, they present only a single story, and deal with more realistic subject matter.
500
What are the four things Franklin proposes to wake people up earlier
What is outlawing night time travel, imposing a tax on windows with shutters, and ringing the church bells when the sun rises, and putting guards in front of the candle shops to limit the amount people buy
500
Who believed living in constant fear of dying is like dying over and over
What is Abraham Lincoln
500
a child is shown covered in bug bites after using an inferior bug spray
What is pathos
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