Advancing Rhetoric
Persuasion is used for these three reasons.
What is
a) to cause one to listen
b) to cause one to believe
c) to cause one to react
Oedipus gives off this first impression.
What is power and pride?
Beowulf blends these two ideals.
What is pagan and Christian?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is part of the _____ genre.
What is lyric/lyrical ballad?
This word means a natural attraction to a person, thing, or activity; a relationship, connection.
What is affinity?
These are the three artistic proofs.
What are
a) ethos
b) pathos
c) logos
Oedipus was looked so highly upon because _____.
What is he had already solved the riddle of the sphinx?
"Swan-road" is an example of this, seen often throughout Beowulf.
What is a kenning?
This feature enables the Mariner to stop the wedding guest in his tracks.
What is his glittering eye?
This word means the common people, the masses.
What is hoi polloi?
This artistic proof is the author's ethical appeal.
What is ethos?
What is privately, openly?
Beowulf is the leader of the _____.
Who are the Geats?
The Albatross is characterized as _____.
What is a good omen?
This word means a learned person; one who gives authoritative opinions.
What is pundit?
Close reading does these two things for a reader/writer.
What are
a) improve ability to understand texts
b) develop ability to write well
This man had been murdered, unknowingly, at the hands of his own son.
Who is Laius?
______________ were more important than even one's own name in Beowulf.
What are family relationships?
This part of the sailors haunted the Mariner throughout the latter part of his story.
What are their eyes?
This word's synonyms include visionary, quixotic, pie-in-the-sky.
What is chimerical?
While close reading, the reader should always be closely evaluating the text's ________.
What is big idea?
The Chorus represents whom?
Beowulf defeats Grendel by doing this.
What is tearing off his arm?
This Christian symbolism is at work throughout The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
What is redemption?
This word's antonyms include weakness, foible.
What is forte?