Context
The author of The Apology: Letters from a Terrorist
Who is Laura Blumenfeld?
One type of diction used in this piece
What is Humanizing or Connoation/Denoation?
One of the 5 main rhetorical strategies in this piece
What is POV or Imagery or Irony or Appeal to empathy?
The two rhetorical modes in this essay
What is Narration/Description and Cause/Effect?
The name of the treat Adora made
What is Rugelach?
The relation of David Blumenfeld to Laura Blumenfeld
What is her husband?
The change from "some Jew" to "my father" is an example of this type of diction
What is humanizing?
"For me, however, the shooting was personal." represents this point of view
What is first person?
A mode best characterized as "a form of writing that tells a story"
What is Narration or Narration/Description?
The capital of Israel
What is Jerusalem?
The conflict this story is based on
What is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
"a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning" is this form of diction
What is connotation?
"pink embroidered bathrobe" is an example of this strategy
What is imagery?
"a logical system that organizes evidence to show how something happened" defines this mode
What is Cause/Effect?
The language of Israel
What is Hebrew?
The year this passage was published
What is 2002?
"Omar's mother" compared to "his mother"
What is humanizing diction?
Omar saying David getting shot was "nothing personal" TO Laura is an example of this strategy
What is irony?
"*Omars letter*" followed by "for all its self-justifying tone, the letter was more candid on a personal level..." is an example of this mode
What is Narration/Description?
One of the four main religions of Israel
What is Jewish or Muslim or Christian or Druze?
The name of the book this passage is selected from
What is "Revenge: A Story of Hope"?
"having blood on my hands" is a common form of this diction
What is connotation?
"We were so frightened by the darkness and the sound of guns." represents this strategy
Laura's father being shot
What is Cause/Effect?
The population of Israel (millions)
What is 8.5 million?