Rhetoric
Literary Terms
Romantic Attitudes
Transcendentalists
Poetry
100

Which rhetorical appeal is utilized in the following example:  A dentist, with many years of experience in his field, endorses a specific toothpaste brand for overall dental health and hygiene?

Ethos

100

Identify the literary term used in the following sentence: Despite trying to eat healthier, chocolate was her Achilles' heel.

Allusion (as well as a metaphor)

100

Which Romantic attitude (otherwise known as a belief or pillar) suggests that woman is the ideal inspiration for man?

Man

100

What transcendentalist author asked his reader to “Trust thyself" in which famous essay?

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

100

What are the groups of lines within a poem called?

Stanzas

200

Which rhetorical appeal is utilized in the following example: A concerned citizen presents years worth  of budgetary data, suggesting wastefulness and carelessness, at a town council meeting to advocate for better financial responsibility?

Logos

200

Parallelism, parallel structure, epiphora, and anaphora are all literary terms that share what similarity?

Repetition

200

Which group of Romantics believed that other writers wrote mysticism?

Dark Romantics

200

To arrive at the truth, man must look beyond books and listen to inner soul. This statement best reflects which transcendental attitude / belief / pillar?

The relationship between man and God

200

What is the voice or persona delivering a poem?

Speaker

300

A speaker or writer can utilize pathos and logos to create what?

Ethos

300

Identify the literary term used in the following sentence: A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Idiom (as well as an aphorism)

300

Which group of Romantics believed that nature was a moral educator?

Transcendentalists

300

This 19th-century American transcendentalist wrote that “government is best which governs not at all." Who wrote these words?

Henry David Thoreau

300

What type of vivid, descriptive language appeals to the five senses?

Imagery

400

Jolliffe's and SOAPSTONE are two frameworks that share distinctive similarities. One of the words making up SOAPSTONE'S acronym is "Occasion" - the specific time, place, and context that prompted a speaker or writer to create a text. This definition most closely aligns with which JRF element?

Exigence

400

Identify the literary term used in the following sentence: Abigail Williams is a conniving, manipulative, vengeful, and selfish 17-year-old orphan. In other words, how is she being described?

Direct characterization

400

Which attitude / belief / pillar suggests pride in our country’s past and in our country’s accomplishments?

Society

400

What famous essay argues that individuals have a moral duty to resist unjust laws, an idea that later influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.?

Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"

400

Provide one example of what would be included in the “connotation” section of a TPCASTT analysis.

Teacher discretion. Possible answer: Deeper meaning aided by form, diction, POV, symbolism, imagery, allusion, other figurative language, etc.

500

The terms exigence, audience, and purpose make up the "triangular point" of Jolliffe's Rhetorical Framework. What is another name for this phase of the framework?

The rhetorical situation

500

Create an original metaphor that depicts Romantic beliefs about life or nature.

Teacher discretion (but an example could be something like: Life is a ship atop uncertain seas, but calm waters await after the storm.)

500

What did the Romantics believe about man?

Every man is different. Every man is important. Woman is the ideal / inspiration. Man can be heroic.

500

Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax because he believed doing so made him complicit in this government-supported institution, which he passionately opposed. What institution?

Slavery (would also take the Mexican American war)

500

What does the “S” stand for in the TPCASTT acronym? Hint: change. Give an example of how / why this occurs in a poem.

Shift. Teacher discretion but could along the lines of: shift in tone, speaker, structure, time, etc.