Rhetorical Appeals
An appeal to a specific emotion in the audience to make an argument convincing by using emotional language or emotional examples.
Pathos
An individual, company, or institution sued or accused in a court of law.
Defendant
Repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable.
Repetition
The state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount, especially in terms of financial security.
Poverty
An advance hint of what is to come later in a story.
Foreshadowing
An appeal to the author/speaker’s credibility, which makes the argument convincing by making the audience think the author/speaker is a good/fair person, has done their research, or has personal experience.
Ethos
A lawyer who conducts the case against a defendant in a criminal court.
Prosecutor
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
Allusion
The system of ordering a society in which people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status.
Class
George and Lennie's Farm in Of Mice and Men = The American Dream
Symbolism
"My contract provides I be supplied with all my firewood."
Logos
A document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police or some other body to make an arrest, search premises, or carry out some other action relating to the administration of justice.
Warrant
"And ain’t I a woman?"
Rhetorical Question
Deoxyribonucleic acid, the carrier of genetic information and the fundamental and distinctive characteristics or qualities of someone or something.
DNA
The uncertainty created when an author leaves elements of a text open to the reader’s interpretation.
Ambiguity
"Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you."
Pathos
Oral or written evidence given by a competent witness, under oath, at trial or in an affidavit or deposition.
Testimony
"I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!"
Parallel Structure
Open or hidden hostility directed towards someone of a different race.
Racial Tension
At the end of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo believes Juliet is dead, but we, the audience, know she is not.
Dramatic Irony
"I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief."
Ethos
A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime.
Indictment
"Pontius Pilate! God will not let you wash your hands of this!"
Allusion
Illegal physical contact that usually involves force upon a person without consent or is inflicted upon a person who is incapable of giving consent or who places the assailant in a position of trust or authority
Sexual Assault
In TKAM, Scout's teacher, Miss Caroline, disapproves of Scout's ability to read and instructs her to tell her father not to teach her any more.
Situational Irony