Dystopias
This character from "Harrison Bergeron" is saddled with the most handicaps due to his great strength and intelligence.
Who is Harrison Bergeron?
Santiago spends his life in search of this.
What is his Personal Legend?
This is the repetition of similar sounds at the END of successive phrases in poetry.
What is rhyme?
This is the Roman leader who was killed by 23 stab wounds.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This is the general term used to describe what speakers or authors used to persuade an audience of something.
What is a rhetorical appeal?
True or false: In a dystopian society, the setting is always futuristic.
False
This character gives Santiago a job and acts as a great role model for hard work and kindness.
Who is the Crystal Merchant?
This is another term for the reason an author writes a text.
What is purpose?
This character told Caesar to "beware the Ides of March."
Who is the soothsayer?
Writing that includes vivid description and sensory detail best represents this literary term.
What is imagery?
The overarching idea behind the story "Harrison Bergeron" is this.
What is forced equality?
This character was also searching for the alchemist with Santiago.
Who is the Englishman?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
This character sees Caesar's ghost in his tent.
Who is Brutus?
This rhetorical appeal best refers to an author or speaker's credibility or notability.
What is an appeal to ethos?
Harrison demands that this person dance with him.
Who is a ballerina?
This country is Santiago's homeland.
What is Spain?
This is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
What is meter?
This character's funeral speech was fiery, emotional, and manipulative, successfully persuading his audience (through irony and repetition) to rise up in mutiny against the conspirators.
Who is Marc Antony?
This rhetorical appeal refers to a speaker or author's ability to persuade through emotional connections with the audience.
What is an appeal to pathos?
This person from "Harrison" fits the dystopian characteristic of "powerful figurehead."
Who is Diana Moon Glampers, Handicapper General?
These are the two stones that Santiago received from Melchizedek.
What are Urim and Thummim?
This is the attitude the writer has toward his or her subject of writing.
What is tone?
This is a footrace that Roman men partake in. Caesar told Antony to touch Calpurnia with his sandal during it to "make her fertile."
What is the Lupercal?
"Over 60% of the Arctic's wildlife population has decreased in the last 50 years. Therefore, we need to change our habits to help slow the rates of climate change." This example best represents this rhetorical appeal.
What is an appeal to logos?