Rhetoric
Heros Journey
Literary Elements
Lit Terms
Lit Terms 2
100

 “Caring for the environment may not change your life, but it will change the lives of your children.” 

Ethos Pathos or Logos

Pathos

100

How Many stages are there in a Hero's Journey?

12

100

Point of View: A narrative perspective where the narrator knows all the thoughts, feelings, and actions of every character in the story. This type of narrator has a "god-like" knowledge, allowing them to provide insights into multiple characters and events happening simultaneously.

Third person omniscient

100

A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end


Static Character

100

a literary device in which a writer uses one thing—usually a physical object or phenomenon—to represent something more abstract.

Symbolism

200

“Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer. So why start smoking?”

Ethos Pathos or Logos

Logos

200

Stage 6: Tests, Allies, and _______. Where the hero must face obstacles and adversaries.

Enemies

200

Third person point of view which only shows the perspective of one character

Third-person limited


200

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)


Imagery

200

all the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their literal dictionary definitions


connotation

300

an appeal to the audience's sense of reason


Logos

300

Stage 8: The hero encounters the ___________. This is a life or death situations for the hero.

The Ordeal

300

The sequence of events of which a story is composed

Plot

300

The general character or attitude that an author takes when writing, which might be cheerful or depressed, sarcastic, or sincere, comical, or mournful, praising, or critical, and so on.


Tone

300

a character with many different character traits, which sometimes contradict one another (like real people)


Round Character

400

an appeal to emotions of the audience


Pathos

400

Step 10: The hero must make the journey home called ___________.

The Road Back

400

The main problem, which can be internal or external

Conflict

400

way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people


Dialect

400

figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the word like, as, than, or resembles


Metaphor

500

"If his years as a Marine taught him anything, it's that caution is the best policy in this sort of situation." 

Ethos, Logos or Pathos

Ethos

500

This stage is when the hero's ordinary world is threatened.

Call to Adventure

500

When answering a constructed response, what should you do first?

Restate the question asked.

Often combined with Answer

500

contrast between expectation and reality--between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true


irony

500

the author's representation of the traits, motives, and psychology of a character in a narrative.

Characterization