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Syntax/Schemes
Figurative Lang/Tropes
Potpourri
Appeals
Rhetorical Situation
100
"He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." (Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957)
What is an example of asyndeton?
100

Hope is on the horizon.

What is an example of a metaphor?

100

Who wrote "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calvares County"?

Who is Mark Twain? 

100
"They’ve worked against everything we’ve worked so hard to build, and they don’t care who gets hurt in the process. Make no mistake, they’re the enemy, and they won’t stop until we’re all destroyed."
What is an appeal to Pathos?
100
The message the author intends to express to an audience via his/her writing. This is sometimes subtle and one has to look beyond the surface to perceive.
What is the Purpose of a text?
200
"It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place." (Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, 1951)
What is an example of anaphora?
200
“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.” - Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
What is an example of hyperbole?
200

He likes to walk around referring to his friend as "thee" & "thou."

What is archaic diction?

200
"You don’t need to jump off a bridge to know that it’s a bad idea. Why then would you need to try drugs to know if they’re damaging? That’s plain nonsense."
What is an appeal to Logos?
200
The reason (speech, essay, advertisement, letter) a text is created, which often dictates the style of writing the author uses.
What is the Occasion of a text?
300
"We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us." (Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854)
What is an example of parallelism?
300
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is an example of alliteration?
300

When one theme or idea or person is paralleled to another in a piece.

What is Juxtaposition?

300
"The veterinarian says that an Australian shepherd will be the perfect match for our active lifestyle."
What is an appeal to Ethos?
300
The attitude an author demonstrates in a piece of writing, which can be discerned through analysis of devices like word choice, syntax and figurative language (including irony).
What is the Tone of a text?
400
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841)
What is an example of a periodic sentence?
400
"Pimento eyes bulged in their olive sockets. Lying on a ring of onion, a tomato slice exposed its seedy smile . . .." (Toni Morrison, Love: A Novel.)
What is an example of personification?
400

Create a thematic statement for Bartleby

What are various correct answers? Mr. Tanner will decide.

400
Referring to your country as the "motherland."
What is an appeal to Pathos?
400
The type of individual behind the writing of a piece, which can be known through subject, word choice, tone and purpose (if no other clues are given).
What is the Speaker of a text?
500
"He pulled the blue plastic tarp off of him and folded it and carried it out to the grocery cart and packed it and came back with their plates and some cornmeal cakes in a plastic bag and a plastic bottle of syrup." (Cormac McCarthy, The Road. Knopf, 2006)
What is an example of polysyndeton?
500
“Indeed, it is not uncommon for slaves even to fall out and quarrel among themselves about the relative goodness of their masters, each contending for the superior goodness of his own over that of the others.” (Frederick Douglass)
What is an example of litotes?
500

What three elements of analysis did we add to images in our last visual analysis? 

What are emphasis, color, and alignment? 

500
“Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation”. - Francis Bacon
What is an example of Logos?
500
The intended (and sometimes unintended) receivers of the speaker's message, which can be discerned through the tone, word choice and purpose of the speaker.
What is the Audience of a text?