Figurative Language (terms)
Exaggeration that emphasizes a certain point or creates a strong impression
Hyperbole
The element of fiction that deals with events.
Plot
Alternative interpretations of a text can serve as ________ in an essay.
counterarguments
“When they are drunk, they neither yell, or shout, nor stagger, but skulk along like beaten hounds."
simile (Life in the Iron Mills)
“I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings!”
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Charlotte Perkins Stetson also OK)
The two "levels" of revision a writer can undertake.
Global and local
Establishes a relationship between two ideas or things by equating/replacing one with the other
Metaphor
In contrast to the real world, this is the alternative world in which a piece of fiction takes place.
storyworld
Name the three rhetorical appeals.
ethos, pathos, logos
“'Faith kept me back a while,' replied the young man, with a tremor in his voice, caused by the sudden appearance of his companion, though not wholly unexpected."
Metaphor ("Young Goodman Brown")
"I should have stated before that ground glass folding-doors divided my premises into two parts, one of which was occupied by my scriveners, the other by myself....I placed his desk close up to a small side-window in that part of the room..."
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville
This revision strategy makes a list of paragraph main ideas in order to get a bird's-eye view of essay organization.
Reverse Outlining
Attributes personal or human characteristics to a nonhuman entity, object, or idea
Personification
A narrator that has unlimited knowledge of the characters, events, etc. in the storyworld is an _________ narrator.
omniscient
Topic sentences that introduce the new information of the topic by first restating what the reader already knows use this strategy.
Old/New Contract
“I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down.”
"You like that. The idea that Tourists come to you to experience something real. DarAnne has it wrong. The Tourists aren't all bad. They're just needy."
"Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM" by Rebecca Roanhorse
This revision strategy, which focuses on eliminating unnecessary prepositions and creating active verbs, is like a "first responder" for local revisions.
The Paramedic Method
When a term for a part is used to refer to the whole.
synecdoche
In fiction, language is ________, meaning that it takes primary importance.
foregrounded
This fourth, lesser known rhetorical appeal is all about the timeliness of the argument. Why make this argument now?
Kairos
“While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened--there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind--the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight--my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder--there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters--and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the 'HOUSE OF USHER.'"
Metaphor ("The Fall of the House of Usher")
"They came by dozens and by hundreds; as far on either hand as one could see in the deepening gloom they extended and the black wood behind them appeared to be inexhaustible. The very ground seemed in motion toward the creek. Occasionally one who had paused did not again go on, but lay motionless. He was dead."
"Chickamauga" by Ambrose Bierce
This revision (and brainstorming) strategy requires visually mapping an argument or concept, connecting like ideas with like ideas.
Concept mapping
Connects/combines elements that appear to be contradictory, but conceals a point or paradox
oxymoron
________ characterization is when the narrator describes a character’s physical, mental, or behavioral characteristics.
direct characterization
The XYZ thesis is shorthand for… (i.e. the 3 words)
Observation, Intervention, Implication
“More tragical and more inscrutably mysterious than any mystic sight, human or machine, throughout the factory, was the strange innocence of cruel-heartedness in this usage-hardened boy."
Oxymoron ("The Tartarus of Maids")
"My strict integrity, economy, and rigorous business habits, here again came into play. I found myself driving a flourishing trade, and soon became a marked man upon 'Change."
"The Business Man" by Edgar Allan Poe
A writing process that is no longer linear, but is focused on the circular relationship between prewriting, drafting, and revision is this kind of writing process.
Recursive