Unit 1
The ____ of a word is its meaning that appears in the dictionary and has no associated negative or positive emotions.
What is Denotation?
This word means indicating favorable conditions or suggesting the likelihood of good fortune.
What is auspicious?
This word means skilled in vivid or fluent expression.
What is eloquent?
This word means in a way that is strongly emotional, heated, or impassioned.
What is vehemently?
This word means having or showing good judgment and an ability to grasp difficult concepts and ideas.
What is sagacious?
One can be determined by making an inference through reading between the lines and gathering textual evidence, and the other is distinctly conveyed through an author’s direct message or meaning.
What is the difference between Implicit and Explicit meaning?
The hero, The valiant knight, and the damsel in distress.
What are examples of character archetypes?
Situational, Dramatic, and Verbal.
What are types of irony?
"We ran as if to meet the moon that slowly looked behind the trees..." is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
Adds wit, sarcasm, absurdity, and a comedic quality in literature.
What is humor?
This method requires thinking about a topic, brainstorming, and planning.
What is prewriting?
Using the senses and an expressive choice of words to detail events, experiences, characters, setting, ect.
What is descriptive writing?
Requires essays to be double spaced, a 12 point font, and have proper citations.
What is MLA format?
The writer's values or opinions that influence the representation of a topic.
What is Perspective?
Writers can do this by describing a setting or series of events at length, by providing sensory images and details, and by focusing on a character’s thoughts and reflections.
What is slow down the pace?
A picture rose clearly before her mind. Cyril’s head, bobbing up and down, swimming to the rock. … Up and down – up and down. And herself, swimming easy practiced strokes after him – cleaving her way through the water but knowing, only too surely, that she wouldn’t be in time.
This is an example of _____
What is a flashback?
The quote, "Not a soul
But felt a fever of the mad, and played
Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
Plunged in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel,
Then all afire with me.." uses vivid imagery to affect the _____.
What is tone?
The _______ of “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” by John Keats is that obsessions have the power to destroy one’s life.
What is theme?
The stanza,
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
Uses a type of figurative language called ____.
What is metaphor?
The excerpt,
"Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was not a pleasant sight, even for other Vogons. His highly domed nose rose high above a small piggy forehead. His dark green rubbery skin was thick enough for him to play the game of Vogon Civil Service..."
Uses an _____ to de-emphasizes the hideousness of Jeltz.
What is understatement?
"Came Wealhtheow forth,
queen of Hrothgar, heedful of courtesy,
gold-decked, greeting the guests in hall;
and the high-born lady handed the cup
first to the East-Danes’ heir and warden,
bade him be blithe at the beer-carouse,
the land’s beloved one."
The writer used a type of narrative element called _____.
What is characterization?
in Gothic Romanticism: the _____ is where characters might face something that scares them or that reveals a secret.
What is climax?
"This is a question, this is a question, this is a
question, this is a question, this is a question,
this is a question." (Barrios, 12).
This quote has an _____.
What is in-text citation?
The death penalty should continue because it is a good deterrent for criminals, and it supports the idea of "an eye for an eye."
This sentence is an example of ______ writing.
What is persuasive?
As Mary walked into the forest, she saw the violently chopped trees, the destroyed animal habitats, and a littered brown lake.
This sentence uses _____ to affect the tone.
What is imagery?