Structure tools
When it sounds like the author is telling the story, it is written in this perspective.
What is First Person Narration?
“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.”
Captain Ahab, Chapter 36, Page 236
What is dialogue?
What is hyperbole?
This is one way of comparing two things by stating one IS the other.
What is a Metaphor?
When a writer discloses and develops character personalities
What is Characterization?
This is how you respond to the story, setting and voice of the author.
What is mood?
When writing a paper, research, or a nonfiction work, your main point is called this.
What is a thesis?
These are objects or even ideas that stand for something else, another idea.
What are Symbols?
Calling something to mind without saying the idea directly. An indirect reference using something commonly known.
What is an Allusion?
The author's feelings in a piece of writing
What is Tone?
In "Pride and Prejudice," this tool uses "silly" to stand in for foolish and reckless ways of the two youngest daughters.
What is a euphemism?
A group of lines forming the basic, repeating unit in a poem
What is a stanza?
When we read Huckleberry Finn,
( this ) will be a challenge for us Northerners to understand what's being said.
What is Dialect?
Giving an inanimate object's actions the descriptions of human activity.
What is Personification?
What is a novel's overarching message about life or human nature in a story?
What is Theme?
Agree/Disagree and why?
“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
Ishmael, Chapter 3, Page 34
Ishmael’s pragmatic conclusion challenges societal prejudices. He prioritizes Queequeg’s calm dignity over a “drunk Christian’s” potential disruptiveness, valuing genuine character above superficial labels.
Why is this incorrect?
Jane Bennet falling in love with Mr. Charles Bingle is an example of this structural tool,
What is a subplot?
When you or an author, or anyone chooses certain words in order to shape how we understand the meaning, give a different connotation, and/or give context clues to what's being said.
What is semantics?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
Word used to describe a sound and it kinda sounds LIKE it.
What is Onomatopoeia
The most important concepts the writer wants readers to understand or agree with even if he does not explicitly say it.
What is the author's world view?
Tool here: “God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart forever; the vulture the very creature he creates.”
Speaker: Captain Peleg about Ahab, Chapter 44, Page 292
What is an allusion?
(allusion to Prometheus, one of the Greek Titans, the supreme trickster, gave fire to man but punished by Zeus)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Mr. Bingley being interested in Jane Bennet, but his sisters and Mr. Darcy not supporting that is an example of what structural part (and what story-telling necessity)?
What is Rising Action and Conflict?
Parody is a humorous imitation of a specific work or style, often exaggerating its features for comedic effect, while _____ uses humor, irony, or ridicule to criticize societal issues or human behavior. Both forms aim to entertain, but parody focuses on the original work, whereas _____ addresses broader themes.
What is Satire?
These are the three types of irony.
What are Verbal, dramatic, and situational irony?
The Romantic authors like Hawthorne, Shelley, William Wordsworth and Austen use nature to depict corruption of urban life and the innocence of rural life to set a peaceful tone.
What are 'Pastoral works'?
This tool places Ahab's rebellion against fate next to Starbuck's sense of responsibility.
What is juxtaposition?
What is a foil?