Authors
President of the US during 9/11
Who is George W. Bush?
The practice of passing down a culture's history, wisdom, and stories through speech or song
What is oral tradition
Rhetorical device whoch is an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text
What is allusion
Period that includes the setting of The Crucible
What is Puritanism?
Author of The Great Gatsby
Who is Fitgerald
The Arthur Miller play comparing the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to the anti-communist movement of the early 1950's.
What is The Crucible?
Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience
What is rhetoric?
What character said this? "Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you”
Who is Abigail Williams
Author of 'Indian Education'
Who is Sherman Alexie?
This author was married to Marilyn Monroe, and was accused of being a Communist
Who is Arthur Miller
“All that many people could initially see was the brute randomness of death. All that many could feel was unearned suffering. All that many could hear was God’s terrible silence.” What device is being used in this quote?
What is anaphora
Who says the following in The Crucible? “I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
Who is John Proctor?
Literary period of Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe
What is dark romanticism?
Children's TV presenter who gave a speech On May 1, 1969 to the Senate Subcommittee on Communications to make the case for funding children's educational programming.
Who is Fred Rogers?
The name for the political movement that prompted Miller to write 'The Crucible".
What is McCarthyism, or the Red Scare
What rhetorical device is being used in this quote from The Great Gatsby? "By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived - no thin five piece affair but a whole pit full of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums"
What is polysyndeton
The following line is an example of what Rhetorical device?
“Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not…”
What is antithesis
Speech in which Patrick Henry explains that the colonists must be prepared to fight and defend their freedom, even if it means risking their lives .
What is Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death?
A Native American creation myth, primarily associated with the Iroquois people, which tells the story of how the Earth was created by a Sky Woman who fell from the heavens and landed on the back of a giant turtle
What is The Earth on Turtle's Back?
"On America’s day of trial and grief, I saw millions of people instinctively grab for a neighbor’s hand and rally to the cause of one another" What device is being used in this quote?
What is metaphor
"I know how you sweated like a stallion whenever I'd come near you. I saw your face when she put me out. You loved me then, and you do now" Who says this to John Proctor in The Crucible?
Who is Abigail Williams
Greek philosopher who invented the art of rhetoric
What is Aristotle?