Rhetorical Choices
The use of one object, character, or idea to represent something larger than itself
Symbol/Symbolism
Modes of Discourse refers to…
How the writer arranges the text
Focuses on interpreting a work based solely on what is within the work itself by usually analyzing elements such as irony, paradox, imagery, and metaphor etc.
New Criticism
Followers of this philosophy celebrated imagination, emotion, nature, and individual experience, often emphasizing creativity and the beauty of the natural world
Romanticism
To cause someone to feel isolated or estranged
A. Alienate
B. Dishearten
C. Contemptuous
D. Perpetual
Alienate
The absence of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words
Asyndeton
Juxtaposes two thing to highlight their similarities and differences
Compare and Contrast
Focuses on demonstrating how human traits, flaws, weaknesses, and tendencies affect the outcome of the story, and how self-interest such as, greed, impatience, etc affects behavior.
Psychoanalytical
Followers of this philosophy focused on themes like human fallibility, guilt, and the supernatural, often exploring the mysterious and darker sides of life and emotion
Dark Romanticism
A feeling or strong displeasure towards something considered unjust, insulting, or offensive
A. Didactic
B.Indignant
C. Sardonic
D. Tentative
Indignant
Similarity in structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Parallel Structure/Parallelism
Uses many specific details using the five senses
Description
Which criticism is primarily used in this excerpt?
“Mr. Bennet's ironic expression symbolizes the aggression to catch the tie of higher class by lower middle class families. But at the end of the story, Mr. Bennet also seems very happy as he is informed about the marriage of Eliza and Darcy. Austen proves that in a materialistic society, one cannot remain good all the time, rather one can only be less evil here.”
Marxism
Followers of this criticism are are concerned with finding self and the meaning of life through free will, choice, and personal responsibility
Existentialism
Intended to teach, primarily having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
A. Didactic
B. Humiliate
C. Implement
D. Ratification
Didactic
Figure of speech in which the part of something is used to represent the whole
Synecdoche
Gives a series of examples that clarify what the writer is trying to say
Exemplification
Which criticism is primarily used in this excerpt?
“It is all the more fitting that Fitzgerald would use grey for the Valley of Ashes where Wilson's garage is because his life is dull. Life in the valley drained him, his vivacious wife sucked the life out of him. He is as good as dead.”
Archetypal
Which philosophy is most represented in this passage?
“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”
Transcendentalism
Based on what is generally done or believed
A. Artificiality
B. Conventional
C. Inborn
D. Solitary
Conventional
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
This is an example of…
Antithesis
Identify the most dominant Mode of Discourse:
“Just last week, I was walking down the street with my mother, and I again found myself conscious of the English I was using, the English I do use with her…My husband was with us as well, and he didn’t notice any switch in my Englishes.” (NOT Narration)
Classification and Division
Which criticism is primarily used in this passage?
“Of course, the fact that Jordan must cheat to succeed at golf also implies that women can’t succeed in a man’s field purely on their own ability. And her physical description completes the stereotype that women who invade the male domain are rather masculine: “She was a slender, small-breasted girl with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet” (15; ch. 1). The word most frequently used to describe her appearance is jaunty. In other words, Jordan looks like a boy.”
Feminism
Which philosophy is represented in this excerpt?
"the first thing that their eyes rested on was the same horrible black veil, which had added deeper gloom to the funeral, and could portend nothing but evil to the wedding. Such was its immediate effect on the guests that a cloud seemed to pass before their eyes."
Dark Romanticism
To hinder, restrain, or prevent
A. Equilibrium
B. Inhibit
C. Ratification
D. Tentative
Inhibit