Characterization
a literary technique where the author explicitly tells the reader about a character's traits, personality, and motivations.
What is direct characterization?
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
What are the three rhetorical appeals?
“Repeating the initial consonant sounds in a group of words is called this.”
“The stillness in the room / Was like the stillness in the air – / Between the heaves of storm”
What is alliteration?
hints found in the words and sentences around an unfamiliar word that help you figure out what it means.
What are context clues?
hints or clues about what’s going to happen later in the story.
It builds suspense and prepares the reader for future events without giving everything away.
What is foreshadowing?
As Marcus walked into the crowded room, he kept his eyes low and shuffled to a corner, fidgeting with the hem of his shirt.
What is indirect characterization?
trying to convince the audience that you are trustworthy, knowledgeable, and worth listening to. It’s basically saying, "You should believe me because I know what I’m talking about."
What is ethos?
Comparisons:one says two things are similar; the other says that the one thing is another.
What’s are similes and metaphors?
Benevolent:having a desire to do good; kind and generous.
What is denotation?
The apple pie screamed my name as I walked by.
What is personification?
a character who contrasts with another character — usually the protagonist — to highlight particular qualities of the main character.
What is a “foil”?
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!"
What is Pathos?
something — usually an object, place, or action — that stands for a bigger idea beyond just itself.
In "The Story of an Hour", the open window represents freedom and new possibilities.
What a symbol?
“home.”
rather than meaning a place where someone lives.
instead meaning warmth, comfort, safety, family.
What is connotation?
Joe said rolling his eyes, "I've been waiting all week to take this test; I can't wait!"
What is verbal irony?
a literary tool used to reveal a character by revealing their personality, background, emotions, and motivations through what they say and how they say it.
What is dialogue?
"Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?"
What is a rhetorical question?
“When a line of poetry continues without pause to the next line, it is called this.”
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –”
What is enjambment?
In-conceive-able: conceive is
What is the root of the word?
At first, everyone (including the reader) thinks Mrs. Mallard will be heartbroken after hearing about her husband’s death.
Instead, she feels relief and freedom — she’s actually happy to imagine her new life alone.
What is situational irony?
This type of character is developed throughout the story, like John Proctor.
What is a round character?
"He has refused... He has forbidden... He has dissolved..."
What is parallelism or repetition?
“The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry is called this.”
What is meter?
The breaking down of a word into its three parts in order to determine its meaning
What is morphology?
a story where characters, events, and settings all stand for something bigger — like ideas about morality, politics, or human nature.
What is allegory?