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Rhetorical Devices
Logical Fallacies
The Bluest Eye
Roll the Dice
100

This is the name for the main idea or life lesson in a story

Theme

100

This rhetorical appeal tries to convince the audience through emotion.

Pathos

100

This fallacy misrepresents someone’s argument to make it easier to attack.

Straw Man

100

This young girl believes that having blue eyes will make her beautiful and loved.

Pecola Breedlove

100

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200

A story told by a narrator using “I,” “me,” and “my” is written in this.

First person point of view

200

This rhetorical appeal builds trust by showing the speaker is credible or ethical.

Ethos

200

This fallacy uses one small example and makes a broad conclusion based on it.

Hasty Generalization

200

This narrator helps tell the story and reflects on the events from a child’s point of view.

Claudia MacTeer

200

- 200

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300

This is the term for a struggle between opposing forces in a story.

Conflict

300

This rhetorical device repeats a word or phrase for emphasis throughout a speech or passage.

Repetition

300

This fallacy makes an issue seem like there are only two choices when there are actually more.

False Dilemma

300

In the Winter section, Pecola buys this candy and associates it with beauty, whiteness, and blue eyes.

Mary Janes

300

- 300

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400

This type of word describes a noun.

Adjective

400

This rhetorical device compares two unlike things to make an idea more vivid or persuasive.

Analogy

 (I will also take Juxtaposition)

400

This fallacy attacks the person making the argument instead of the argument itself.

Ad Hominem

400

This season of the novel introduces Pecola’s trip to Mr. Yacobowski’s store and shows her longing for beauty and acceptance.

Winter

400

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500

The character or force working against the main character is called this.

Antagonist

500

This rhetorical device repeats the same word or phrase at the beginning of multiple clauses or sentences.

Anaphora

500

This fallacy assumes that because one event happened before another, it must have caused it

Post Hoc Ergo Propoter Hoc

 (will also accept false cause)

500

This character is presented as a girl admired by everyone, helping show the novel’s harmful beauty standards.

Maureen Peal

500

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