Aristotle's Appeals
Name Aristotle's three appeals
Ethos, pathos, and logos
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
Diction
Give the definition of author's purpose and three examples of what an author's purpose might be.
The author's purpose is their reason or intent in writing.
Persuade, inform, entertain.
True or False: Poems have to rhyme to be considered poems
False.
A situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality
Irony
Aristotle's appeals are a form of rhetoric that are intended to help the author to do what to the audience?
Persuade the audience
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
Syntax
These types of stories focus on the growth of a character out of childhood and into adulthood. Sometimes this event is marked by a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, a Quinceanera, or a Sweet 16th Party.
Coming-of-Age Stories
A lengthy narrative poem, typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters (like gods)
Epic poetry
Uses humor and exaggeration to criticize something or someone
Satire
Ethos is
The reliance on ethics or one's trustworthiness of character to persuade an audience
Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience
Rhetoric
This is an experience or period in a person's life that leads to a greater awareness of evil, pain, and/or suffering in the world around them.
Loss of innocence
While short stories and other fiction works are written in prose, poetry is written in...
Figure of speech in which a part represents the whole, as in the expression "hired hands" or "hungry mouths to feed" or even "offering your hand in marriage"
Synecdoche
Pathos is
The reliance on an emotion to persuade an audience
This means a word/term has a negative, neutral, or positive implication
Connotation
In the western world, THIS is a concept that has become synonymous with self-realization and the true self.
Spiritual Enlightenment
Name at least 2 common themes of epic poetry
Answers may include: Myths, legends, heroism, the hero's journey
Using a word that is associated with something to refer to that thing.
For example, referring to the President of the United States or their administration as "The White House." Or the British royal family as "The Crown." Or, the New York Stock Exchange as "Wall Street"
Metonymy
Logos is
The reliance on logics or statistics to persuade an audience
Connecting two different meanings of the same word together, setting them side-by-side to surprise, delight, or confuse audiences.
For example: "She broke his car and heart." Or, "She opened the door and her heart to the stray cat."
Zeugma
Give an example of a universal theme that a story may contain.
Good versus Evil. Love. Redemption. Courage and perseverance. Coming of age. Revenge.
Answers my include: epic poetry is long, often book-length, narrative written in verse form, content is extraordinary, includes the hero's journey
The omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join words or clauses for emphasis. (Often used in rhetoric. For example, "I came, I saw, I conquered." Or, "I was feeling melancholy, exhausted, rueful, burnt-out."
Asyndeton