Just a Bunch of Rhetoric
I can show you the world Shining, shimmering splendid. This Disney Aladdin song uses this repetition of sounds at the beginning of adjacent words.
What is alliteration?
This type of tone is used when you are charging someone of wrongdoing. It's the blame none of us want to be the victim of.
What is accusatory?
When John Proctor forgets the commandment of adultery AND the audience is aware that he has indeed broken this commandment, it is the author's clear use of which TWO types of this literary device.
What is the dramatic and situational irony?
On the American Literature Milestones exam, the highest possible score you could get is this
What is 4?
Using facts, statistics, and reasoning is an appeal to this.
What is logos or logic?
And ain't I a woman?" Sojourner Truth uses this rhetorical device to appeal to the empathetic emotion of her audience.
What is rhetorical question?
Rappers often use this very braggadocious tone when they brag about their money, cars, and clothes. How vain and arrogant!
What is haughty?
Although The Crucible detailed events from the 1692 Salem witch trials, it also served as a comparison for what happened during the McCarthy era when innocent Americans were being accused of being communists. This use of a story, poem, or picture to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one is called this...
What is an allegory?
No narrative would be complete without dialogue, plot development, and this other kind of development which can be done both directly and indirectly.
What is character development?
This is a form of diction that describes informal everyday language which most writers refrain from using in academic papers, but may use in narratives.
What is colloquial? (Dialect is also acceptable)
When two words, phrases, images, ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
This tone comes from the Greek word for "teach"--Hence the author's attempt to educate or instruct the reader
What is didactic?
This kind of literature revealed the pious nature of its writers and audience and often included letters and journal entries.
What is Puritan/Colonial literature?
This refers to how fast or slow your plot develops.
What is pacing?
The lines "It's in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lip" is written in this type of structure.
What is a parallel/parallelism?
A commercial about donating money to hungry and homeless children, a pamphlet with facts of the negative effects drinking alcohol, and an ad endorsed by President Obama are respectively using these three appeals.
What is pathos, logos, and ethos?
I feel like I can't do anything right. You FIND FAULT with everything I say and do.
What is critical?
In a drama, this can be helpful in determining a character's action, emotion, thoughts, and other direct traits.
What are stage directions?
This is the most important element to your analysis. It's explained in more detail than the assertion and evidence because it shows how well you understand and can explain an author's rhetoric.
What is commentary?
This syntactical structure is written so that the main idea is at the beginning of the sentence.
What is a loose sentence?
"I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind." These are no Kris Kross lyrics, but it is an example of a rhetorical device which comes from the Greek word meaning Criss Cross. It is parallel in syntax but the words are reversed.
What is chiasmus?
"Back in the days when I was young--I'm not a kid anymore--but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again" I guess those were the good ole days...
What is reminiscent or reflective? (I'll accept lyrical)
This is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience or quietly to another character. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by other characters on stage. ... It is usually a brief comment, rather than a speech. (Unfortunately there were no examples of this in The Crucible)
What is an aside?
This is one of the few rhetorical devices that begin with "L." It describes a statement that is affirmed by negating its opposite. For example: "He's no fool." Meaning he's really smart. (I'll allow you to use your resources for this one but the time limit is still the same)
What is litotes?