Repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of successive words
What is Alliteration
100
Friends with Harper Lee, composed In Cold Blood.
Who is Truman Capote?
100
A family of five meets their death on a dirt road in Georgia.
What is A Good Man is Hard to Find?
100
refers to speaker, writer or personal and their credibility
What is Ethos?
100
A set of similarly structured words, phrases or clauses
What is Parallelism
200
Replacing one word for another.
What is Metonymy
200
His protagonist Winston is expresses this author's warning for the future of humanity.
Who is George Orwell?
200
The tale of a tragic end for a marriage tainted by a jealousy and betrayal of lies by a trusting friend.
What is Othello?
200
Key terms for the Rhetorical Triangle.
What is Writer, Occasion, Audience and Purpose.
200
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
What is Antithesis?
300
A word that replaces the part for the whole.
What is Synecdoche
300
Writes novel about Phillips Exeter under the fictitious name: The Devon School.
Who is John Knowles?
300
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkable smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room ..."
What is Middlesex?
300
Appeals to the emotion of the reader
What is Pathos
300
I woke up, got out of bed, pulled on my clothes, rushed out the door.
What is asyndeton
400
A genre of comedy that is directed at ridiculing human foibles and vices, such as vanity, hypocrisy, stupidity, and greed.
What is Horatian Satire?
400
Claims that "if we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end of believing in nothing and having worthless dreams."
Who is Yann Martel?
400
from "Dictionary of Muad'Dib' by the Princess Irulan"
What is Dune?
400
Appeals to the reasoning of the argument
What is Logos
400
The placing of contrasting settings, character or other literary elements in opposition between paragraphs or sections of a text to highlight an intended disparity.
What is juxtaposition?
500
Words or phrases that are parallel in order and syntax express opposite or contrasting meanings
What is antithesis?
500
Considered a recluse whose bestselling book spoke to a generation of non-conformists written in the 1950's and set in New York City where the teenage protagonist views the word as full of phonies.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
500
Short story of a woman who fears leaving her abusive environment rather than marrying and living in Buenos Ayres.
What is "Eveline"?
500
An acknowledgement of the opposing side of an argument
What is concession?
500
The placement of the subject at the end of the sentence