Elements of Narrative
This term refers to the character from whose perspective the reader experiences the story.
This is the main claim of an argument.
What is the thesis?
Because cell phones enable cheating by giving students instant access to answers during tests, banning them is necessary to maintain fairness and academic integrity.
What is logos or an appeal to logic?
The classroom was a zoo during the noisy group project.
What is a metaphor?
In fair Verona, woeful day,
Where love is doomed by fate’s harsh sway,
Two hearts entwined 'midst family's war,
Their passion dead forevermore.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This term describes the process by which someone changes or grows throughout a story, shown through their physical appearance, actions and attitude, inner thoughts, reactions of others, and speech.
What is character development?
This is a position that would be held by someone who disagrees with the argument's thesis.
What is a counterclaim?
Imagine the stress and loneliness a student feels when cyberbullying spreads through cell phones, turning school from a safe place into a source of fear.
What is pathos or an emotional appeal?
The wind whispered through the trees like a gentle song.
What is a simile?
Sing to me, Muse, of the overhyped man,
who did not deserve his clever wife or valiant son,
but dallied much throughout the Mediterranean,
and shot a rival through the esophagus.
What is the Odyssey?
This term refers to the process by which a reader identifies a likely truth by reading between the lines and making connections to the world beyond the text.
What is an inference?
This is the response a writer might give to demonstrate why a claim is not enough to disprove their thesis.
What is a rebuttal?
The University of Chicago recommends that schools prohibit cell phones from campus.
What is ethos, or appeal to character?
The stars danced playfully in the sky.
What is personification?
We learned through experience that rhetorical analysis is never given by the teacher; it must, rather, be created by the student.
What is "Letter from Birmingham Jail?"
This term describes a universal truth a writer communicates through a work of literature.
What is a theme?
What is evidence?
Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report that rising ocean temperatures threaten marine life, emphasizing the urgent need for climate action.
What is ethos, or appeal to character?
I've told you a million times to clean your room!
What is hyperbole?
The classroom buzzed like a controlled storm—minds sharp as blades, voices rising and falling with urgent purpose, where every lesson was a battle plan and every question a spark igniting the fire of knowledge.
What is "Legend"?
What is plot?
This is the explanation a writer gives of how their evidence supports their thesis.
What is reasoning?
Every day, countless students suffer in silence, their hearts breaking from cruel words and cyberbullying that steal their joy and sense of safety.
What is pathos, or emotional appeal?
The silence was deafening during the final moments of the championship game.
What is oxymoron?
"Bring me your questions, bright and true.
Your silent thoughts, your story new."
What is "The New Colossus"?