Wild Card
What is the difference between a text structure and a text feature?
A text structure is the way information is organized. A text feature is a visual aid to help readers comprehend material.
What is setting, point of view, characterization, plot, theme, conflict?
Setting: The time and place in which a story happens.
Point of View (POV): The perspective from which a story is told.
Characterization: The way the author reveals a character’s personality—through actions, dialogue, thoughts, appearance, or what others say about them.
Plot: The sequence of events in a story.
Theme: The central idea or message of the story. What is the author trying to say about life or human nature?
Conflict: The struggle between opposing forces that drives the plot.
What is a metaphor?
A figure of speech that compares two seemingly unrelated things by stating that one thing is another, implying a likeness or analogy between them, without using like or as.
The definition of rhetoric is …? (Think: authors purpose)
The art of effective persuasion in writing or speaking.
What is the speaker’s purpose for asking rhetorical questions within speeches?
To emphasize a point or just to get the audience thinking.
What is the difference between chronological and sequence text structures?
Chronological uses time to organize information whereas sequence is a series of steps.
What is universal theme and what are some ways a reader can find the universal theme in a story (what should the reader pay attention to)?
The underlying message/lesson in a story seen across cultures and stories.
A reader can pay attention to the characterization, pov, setting, etc to determine the theme.
Identify the device and explain how you know the device.
"If I’m not home by curfew, I might turn into a pumpkin."
What is an allusion; an allusion to Cinderella.
What is the purpose of using ethos in a speech or piece of writing? Give an example of who uses ethos in the real world.
To give credibility to the speaker/writer, showing knowledge or trustworthiness.
Possible examples: A Doctor; Principal; Politician, etc.
What is parallelism, repetition and antithesis?
Parallelism: using similar grammatical structures to show that ideas are related or equally important.
Repetition: repeating the same word or phrase for emphasis.
Antithesis: putting two opposite ideas side by side to highlight contrast.
What figurative language device is being used in this excerpt from Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet"?
"I’ll be a candleholder and look on.
The game was ne’er so fair, and I am done.
I’ll watch and see where Cupid’s arrow strikes."
Allusion.
What is the difference between mood and tone?
Mood is the feeling the reader receives whereas tone is the author’s attitude towards a subject.
What is alliteration? Give an example.
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Name the rhetorical appeal:
Excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
"We have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.”
Logos; use of logical reasoning or rationalization as Americans are promised certain rights under the Declaration of Independence.
What rhetorical device is being used:
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight..."
Parallelism.
How does this excerpt characterize our protagonist, Rainsford, from "The Most Dangerous Game" and how is it an example of foreshadowing AND irony.
"The world is made up of two classes—the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are the hunters."
Superiority complex, ignorant, lacking empathy. Foreshadows Rainsford will become the huntee/ironic because he claims to be apart of the hunter class/use of word "luckily."
Name the 3 types of author’s purposes.
To persuade, to inform, to entertain.
Identify the figurative language device from "The Cask of Amontillado."
“I shall not die of a cough.” – Fortunato
“True—true.” – Montresor
Foreshadowing that Fortunato will die, but not from his cough.
What is the rhetorical appeal used in this excerpt from "Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience" by Senator Margaret Chase Smith?
"I speak as a Republican, a woman, and as a United States Senator."
Ethos.
Name the rhetorical device used in Niccolò Machiavelli’s "The Prince."
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
Antithesis.
What is the difference between verbal, dramatic and situational irony? Give examples of each (can be from texts... perhaps think "Romeo and Juliet.")
Verbal irony: when a speaker says something but means the opposite.
Ex. "Sure, you can ask me a personal question." (reflecting on the message/theme of Diane Burns' poem.)
Dramatic irony: the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not.
Ex. the audience knowing Romeo was listening below the balcony while the character of Juliet did not.
Situational irony: when an event or outcome takes place that is the opposite of what a person expected.
Ex. Rainsford being put in a situation where he was hunted.
What makes this sentence ambiguous?
“The little girls watched the ballerina doing pirouettes.”
The reader does not know if the little girls were doing pirouettes or if the ballerina was doing pirouettes.
Identify the figurative language device from "The Scarlet Ibis."
"Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.”
Metaphor; Pride is compared to a seed that produces both positive and negative results — a powerful metaphor for the narrator’s motivation and regret.
What is the rhetorical appeal used in this excerpt from "Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience" by Senator Margaret Chase Smith, and what mood does the excerpt convey?
"I do not believe that the American people want to continue to live in the atmosphere of fear and suspicion, distrust, and frustration."
Pathos; fearful, worrisome, etc.
Name the rhetorical device used in Niccolò Machiavelli’s "The Prince."
"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."
Chiasmus; a rhetorical device where the order of words or concepts in the first half of the sentence is inverted in the second half.