Literary elements 1
The author's message. We usually use subordinating conjunctions to communicate these.
What is a central idea?
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
“My love is like a red red rose”
What is a simile?
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
What is personification?
Define central idea.
The universal truth or message found in a story.
A figure of speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter such as a place, event, or literary work by way of a passing reference.
What is an allusion?
A comparison that does NOT use like or as.
What is a simile?
He is a very cunning old fox.
What is a metaphor?
She taller than a house and running faster than the wind.
What is hyperbole?
What is the question that the text-analysis response essay asks you to answer?
How does the writer use literary elements to convey a central idea?
When an author exaggerates in the extreme to prove a point.
What is hyperbole?
A contrast or incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality.
What is irony?
A customer says "Good job," to a waiter who has dropped his tray.
What is irony?
Name the rhetorical appeal:
An advertisement about donating to a charity includes scenes of emaciated children and the words, "For just $1.00 a day, you can feed a starving child."
What is pathos?
What kind of sentence do we generally use to convey a central idea?
What is a SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
What is a theme?
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but . . . sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
What is symbolism?
Name the rhetorical appeal:
A commercial about a specific brand of toothpaste says that 4 out of 5 dentists use it.
What is ethos?
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The attribution of human characteristics to a nonhuman object.
What is personification?
These are the three rhetorical appeals, and what they mean.
Ethos (authority), pathos (emotion), logos (logic)
You could say that this excerpt's __________ is casual:
The way I look at it, someone needs to start doing something about disease. What's the big deal? People are dying. But the average person doesn't think twice about it until it affects them. Or someone they know.
What is tone?
“The wage system has made people believe that what a man needs is work. This, of course, is absurd. What he needs is the goods produced by
work, and the less work involved in making a given amount of goods, the better … But owing to our economic system …where a better system would
produce only an increase of wages or a diminution in the hours of work without any corresponding diminution of wages.”
What is logos?
What is the central idea of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao?
(The class decides)