Lit. Device #1
The attitude of the author.
Tone
The use of humor or ridicule to mock societal issues.
"She gave a loud whisper..."
Oxymoron
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more..."
Not bleak
Not anguish
Not angst
Fatalistic
Stern
Austere
"A bad penny always turns up"
Aphorism
Informal words or phrases.
Colloquial
Who is going to dominate the mid-term exam? You are going to dominate the mid-term exam.
Hypophora
Film Clip (A Beautiful Mind)
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Erudite
Film clip (The Office)
Not abhorrent
Brusque
"She was feeling under the weather yesterday"
Euphemism
I came, I saw, I conquered...
Not allusion
Not asyndeton
Anaphora
Definition of LOGOS
Appeal to logic
Agony
Anguish
Warmhearted
Benevolent
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
Not paradox
Chiasmus
"The strength of America's response, please understand, flows from the principles upon which we stand"
Expletive
Reasoning from general to specific
Deductive reasoning
Film clip (Elf)
Not ardent
Ebullient
Reflective/ thoughtful
Contemplative
Film clip example (Batman Begins)
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Allusion
The movie was not the best.
Litotes
"usually" " in a few cases" "somewhat"
Qualifiers
"I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man."
"This is [supposed] to be a free country. Fella can go where he wants. That's what [I thought]"