If you ask why something was written, you are asking about this SPACECAT category.
What is purpose?
Word choice, sentence structure, and figures of speech all fall under this SPACECAT category.
What is choices?
The public defender compares Jefferson to this.
What is a hog?
The title of the novel comes from this story.
What is the biblical story of Cain and Abel?
This is a common theme or storytelling device used in literature.
What is a trope?
This is the catalyst that motivated the speaker/writer to act.
What is exigence?
Including personal testimonies to demonstrate someone's credibility is this type of rhetorical appeal.
What is ethos?
Grant and Vivian plan to get married once this happens.
What is Vivian's divorce?
The Hebrew word "timshel" translates to this two-word phrase.
What is "thou mayest"?
This is another word for the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.
What is rhetoric?
This is the group of readers/listeners to whom the text is directed.
What is the target audience?
This rhetorical appeal would likely be used to great success in a GoFundMe campaign for a puppy that needs surgery.
What is pathos?
This object has to be rented and brought into town near the end of the novel.
What is the electric chair?
Cathy most identifies with this literary character.
Who is Alice in Wonderland?
When Lee and Grant switch between different types of speech depending on context and audience, they are engaging in this common linguistic practice.
What is codeswitching?
If you ask how a text would have been received by a different audience in a different time, you are asking about this SPACECAT category.
What is context?
The specific language through which the author expresses their emotions can be best analyzed by looking at these TWO SPACECAT categories.
What are choices and tone?
Who is Willie Francis?
Lee briefly leaves to __________________ in the city of _________________ but returns after five days because he is lonely.
What are "open a bookstore" and "San Francisco"?
This literary movement focuses on the external forces that determine people's behavior.
What is naturalism?
The author and the speaker of the text are not necessarily...
What is the same?
The Greek word "pathos" literally translates to this.
What is "suffering"?
Jefferson believes that the Lord only works for these.
What are white people?
According to Steinbeck's letters to his editor, he wanted his writing in EoE to have none of these.
What are adjectives?
What is the sophistication point?