A structure that analyzes similarities and differences between two or more works.
What is compare-and-contrast?
The author's word choice
What is diction?
Lines spoken by characters in a play.
What is dialogue?
The place time/place a work occurs within.
The facts and information you use to back up a claim or idea.
What is evidence?
The author's sentence structure.
What is Syntax
The author's attitude in a specific piece of a work.
What is tone?
bracketed instructions for the actors in a play
What are stage directions?
The person, people or groups of people an author creates a work for.
What is an audience?
What is a claim?
The purpose an expository essay.
What is to explain an idea?
The atmosphere of the overall work.
What is mood?
A type of work where the protagonist do not succeed and often dies or has a terrible outcome.
What is a tradgedy
The main idea or message within a work.
What is theme?
A text structured by an action and the result thereof.
What is cause and effect?
Strong words used to appeal to a reader's emotions.
A speech made by a character alone on a stage, usually not meant to be witnessed by other characters, that expresses the characters true desires.
What is a soliloquy?
The reason the author creates a work.
What is purpose?
What is author's purpose?
When an author addresses an argument that goes against their own idea, usually to refute it.
When a sentence is written in the same grammatical structure, usually to create emphasis.
What is parallelism?
What is parallel construction?
What is being in parallel?
Specific language choices used to persuade readers.
What is an Appeal?
What is Logos, Ethos, and Pathos?
When a character makes a short address not to the characters on the stage, mostly for the benefit of the audience.
What is an aside?
The inciting incident of a work.
What is occasion?
DAILY DOUBLE
When an author refutes a counterargument.
What is rebuttal?