Autobiographies & Biographies
An organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States
What is the abolitionist movement?
an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally
What is hyperbole?
giving human qualities to an object, idea, or animal
What is personification?
a controlling idea that tells what your essay is about and previews your body paragraphs
What is a thesis statement?
lessons about life or human nature
What are themes?
The way a biographer reveals a subject's personality
What is characteriation?
the use of words or phrases that have similar structure or form
What is parallelism?
the writer’s attitude toward a subject
What is the tone?
explanations, connections, and descriptions given by the writer to support the topic sentence
What is elaboration?
a person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself
What is a symbol?
The difference between connotation and denotation
Denotation: literal, dictionary meaning
Connotation: implied, figurative meaning
The three rhetorical appeals and how they try to convince the reader/listener
Ethos (ethics/morals) - the gut
Pathos (emotions) - the heart
Logos (logic/reason) - the brain
a metaphor that is developed at length over several lines or stanzas in or throughout a poem
What is extended metaphor?
What does synthesize your sources mean?
Synthesis – integratng relevant evidence from multiple sources supporting a topic sentence
stories that take place in the past and include characters that may be based on real people, plot developments that reflect real events, and details that are historically accurate
What is historical fiction?
The difference between autobiographies and biographies
autobiographies: 1st person POV telling of chronological events
biographies: 3rd person POV using credible sources to tell someone else's story
the expression of opposing ideas presented side-by-side in parallel phrases or structures
What is antithesis?
a poem in which the speaker reflects on someone’s death
What is an elegy?
What is the role of transition words and phrases in your essay?
Transition words and phrases create cohesion and make the sentence flow more conversationally. They also show how the ideas within and among the paragraphs are related to one another.
a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of fiction
What is an allusion?
3 methods of characterization in biographies
1. direct comments, 2. character's thoughts, speech, actions, 3. other character's thoughts, speech, actions
What is the SOAPSTone acronym and how does it help you beter analyze rhetoric?
Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone – The first four capture the context/situation surrounding the text; the last two summarize the content of the text. The acronym helps explain why WHAT and HOW the speaker/writer said it was impacul based on WHEN, WHERE, and WHY it was said.
HOW does the TP-CASTT strategy help you beter analyze poetry?
Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title and Theme – The acronym takes readers through the process of analyzing the most literal meanings of a poem to the most figurative, nuanced meanings of a poem
What is the Say It, Mean It, Matter It strategy and how does it help your Development score?
Say It – Provides the text evidence, citation, and any necessary context to understand the example
Mean It – explicitly explains how the example supports the topic sentence
Matter It – Explains the significance of the idea/topic and/or shows connections between examples
What do historical fiction stories have in common with biographies? How are they different?
Both use chronological structure and third-person point of view; Both relate facts about a person’s life and use credible sources.
Historical fiction is different in the fact that some of the details can be made up and/or exaggerated. Biographies must remain factually accurate.