Literary Logic
This is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of neighboring words.
What is alliteration?
From Greek, this is an appeal to logic.
What is logos?
My "kids" might be informal, but my "progeny" sounds like this.
What is formal?
The title of this short story (that we studied) is also the name of a dessert.
What is "Brownies"?
The bird in this Edgar Allan Poe poem is believed to be a messenger from "the other side".
What is "The Raven"?
This is the term for words or phrases that appeal to the senses.
What is imagery?
This appeal is often used in advertising featuring abandoned dogs, babies and grandmotherly figures.
What is pathos?
The acronym used when analyzing for tone.
What is DIDLS?
"Everyday Use" used the premise of the city mouse and the country mouse as its set-up. The city mouse and country mouse is this genre of storytelling.
This Native American poet is serving her second term as our U.S. Poet Laureate.
Who is Joy Harjo?
Otherwise known as the "dictionary definition of a word".
What is denotation?
This appeal is used when President Biden makes an speech on education, with his wife (a teacher), inside an elementary school, with students and educators surrounding him.
What is ethos?
If tone is the attitude or feeling of the speaker/writer towards a subject, mood is the vibe felt by this person or group.
What is the audience/reader?
What is Cleófilas?
James Baldwin pens a letter on racism to his nephew in this 1963 essay (the specific essay in The Fire Next Time).
What is "My Dungeon Shook"?
The figurative meaning of a word or phrase.
What is connotation?
Rhetorical appeals are used in this type of speaking or writing in order to sway or influence.
What is persuasive?
What is word choice?
The girls drew attention from A&P customers when they walked through the store wearing these.
What are bathing suits?
Ta Nehisi-Coates writes of finding the joy and beauty of the Black experience at this university, his alma mater.
What is Howard University?
This is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is allegory?
He is the ancient Greek philosopher credited with naming the rhetorical appeals.
Who is Aristotle?
Short, abrupt sentences often sound serious and commanding, while longer sentences sound thought-provoking and dreamy. These are examples of this element.
"My Life with the Wave" is an example of this genre of writing, perfected by Latin American authors.
What is magical realism?
This author writes of leaving his reservation to attend the white high school, where graduated as valedictorian.
Who is Sherman Alexie?