Literary Devices
The literary device used in this example from Of Plymouth Plantation is:
"The winter was sharp and violent, and subjecting them to great suffering."
What is Personification
The rhetorical device is being used in this example from thomas Paine's Common Sense is:
"Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity a proper power for America to depend upon?"
What is Rhetorical Question
How does Jonathan Edwards reinforce the theme of divine wrath in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
By using terrifying imagery of hell and portraying God as both just and wrathful.
This Puritan minister's sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God used vivid imagery to warn of divine punishment.
Who is Jonathan Edwards
identify the error in this sentence: The dog chased it's tail around the yard.
What is the incorrect use of "it's" instead of "its."
The literary device used in this example from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is:
"The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow..."
What is Imagery
This is the purpose of using Rhetoric in argumentative works.
What is to convince people to agree with you
A character's downfall due to excessing pride reflects this common theme.
What is The danger of Hubris/pride?
Revolutionary literature often used this persuasive technique, appealing to readers' emotions to inspire action.
What is Pathos
The subject and verb in a sentence mist always agree in:
What are tense and number.
The literary device used in this example from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is:
"The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire..."
What is Metaphor
This is an example of (ethos/pathos/logos) from Of Plymouth Plantation:
"I have been a witness to these events, and I have recorded them so that future generations may know of our struggles."
What is Ethos
Stories that focus on people learning to navigate difficult moral choices often explore this theme.
What is morality and ethics
Revolutionary writers often used this persuasive strategy, asking question without expecting an answer.
What are rhetorical questions
This punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon
The literary device used in this example from Patrick Henry's Speech at the Virginia Convention is:
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
What is hyperbole
This is an example of (ethos/pathos/logos) from Patrick Henry's Speech at the Virginia Convention:
"If we wish to be free, we must fight! The war is inevitable - and let it come!"
What is Logos
How does Thomas Paine support the theme of independence in Common Sense?
By using logical arguments about tyranny and the need for self-governance.
The Puritan belief in strict moral codes led to writings that emphasized this concept, often linked to public shame.
What is guilt and redemption
A complete sentence MUST have both a ___________ and a _____________.
A subject and a predicate.
The literary device used in this example from Young Goodman Brown is:
"Faith kept me back, and Faith kept me back."
This is an example of (ethos/pathos/logos) from Thomas Paine's Common Sense:
"The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part!'"
What is Pathos
Is this a theme or not a theme:
"Power can corrupt even the most well-intentioned leaders."
THEME
This is the difference between the beliefs of the Romantics and the Dark Romantics
What is Romantics emphasized beauty, nature, and human goodness, while Dark Romantics focused on human flaws, sin, and the darker aspects of existance.
What is the term for a phrase that interrupts the flow of a sentence and should be set off with commas?
What is a parenthetical phrase