Tropes
"The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white."
What is imagery?
Kennedy walks the audience through a structured factual timeline:
What is logos?
Carver says, "He looked around the bedroom before turning off the light."
What is foreshadowing?
What punctuation joins two independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction FANBOYS between them?
What is a semicolon?
What relative pronoun introduces a defining clause when referring to objects or things?
What is "that"?
"They look like white elephants."
What is simile?
Kennedy invokes "William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony."
What is ethos?
The empty, abandoned mill at the start of Hemingway's story "The End of Something"
What is a symbol?
What punctuation introduces a complete list after an independent clause?
What is a colon?
What are two possible functions of the participial adjectives that describe a noun?
What are agent and receiver?
Kennedy describes space travel: "We set sail on this new sea."
What is metaphor?
In Glengarry Glen Ross the film, Blake tell the real estate salesmen "You can't close them? Go home and tell your wife your troubles."
What is pathos?
Chekhov's Beliokhov, who spends his life wrapping himself in galoshes, dark glasses, and pit-cases for his pens, finally dies in his coffin and looks more at ease than ever.
What is situational irony?
What punctuation, used in a pair before and after inserts additional, turning-point information into the middle of a sentence?
What are em-dashes?
Name the error: "Each of the students brought their lunch."
What is subject pronoun agreement? (Each singular there is plural.)
Kennedy compresses 50,000 years of human history into half a century, ending: "We will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight."
What is hyperbole?
Kennedy ends a string of why questions with: "Why does Rice play Texas?"
What is allusion?
In Glengarry Glen Ross, Ricky Roma, the confident closer, can pitch to anyone, set against Shelly Levine, the broken has-been begging for good leads.
What is a foil?
Name the error.: "She wanted to go to the party, however, she was tired."
What is a comma splice (needs a semicolon before "however")?
What is the one joke that Ruby got tired of this year?
What is 67?
"The kitchen window gave no light."
What is personification?
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade."
What is repetition/anaphora?
Carver says, "In this manner, the issue was decided."
What is understatement?
What punctuation indicates a range, as in "1939 to 1945", and is shorter than an em-dash but longer than a hyphen?
What is an en-dash?
What is the agent participle adjective of the verb to impress?
What is impressive?