Life in New World II
Compares two things without like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The relationship of a narrator to the story.
What is point of view?
a traditional story that explains a belief, a custom, or a force of nature.
What is a myth?
A nonfiction narrative in which the author relates the story of his or her own life for a public audience.
What is a rhetorical question?
When one makes a general statement based on the information in a text.
What is draw a conclusion?
What is diction?
literature that passes by word of mouth from one generation to the next.
What is oral literature?
You put something you have read into your own words.
What is to paraphrase?
The way parts of a text are organized and related to each other.
What is text structure?
The set of mental pictures that writers create by using sensory details.
What is imagery?
What is bias?
a character type, descriptive detail, an image, or a plot pattern that recurs frequently in the literature from many cultures and evokes strong emotional responses.
What is an archetype?
The distinctive use of language that conveys the author's or narrator's personality to the reader.
What is voice?
The author's intent in writing a work.
What is author's purpose?
What is connotation?
What is responding personally?
explain how natural phenomena came to be or why a society has certain beliefs and customs.
What is origin myths?
A specific kind of language that includes: allusion, hyperbole, metaphor, metonymy, Personification, simile, or symbol.
What is figure of speech?
Writer argues from specific instances to general principles.
What is inductive reasoning?
Descriptions that appeal to one or more of the senses.
What are sensory details?
The first constitution ever created on American Soil.
What is the Iroquois Constitution?
Major Premise - All human beings are mortal.
Minor Premise - Mrs. Davis is a human being.
Conclusion - Mrs. Davis is mortal.
What is syllogism?
Writer argues from general principles to specific conclusions.
What is deductive reasoning?