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literary terms
Rhetorical Modes (types of writing) Category
100
“The leaves fell early that year.” This is a line in Ernest Hemingway’s opening line of A Farewell to Arms that subtly tells readers that there will be an early death.
What is foreshadowing?
100
In writing, film, and other mediums where the story is told by one of the characters about his/herself
What is 1st person point-of-view?
100
To use other sources properly in your own writing.
What is to cite?
100
comparing two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
A story, often told by the person who experienced it.
What is a narrative
200
“When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn’t necessary.” (Scrooge was an extremely stingy character from Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol.)
What is allusion?
200
The main message, meaning, or moral of a work.
What is theme?
200
The cultural meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
200
Giving human-like characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
200
Persuasive writing
What is argument writing?
300
The genre used in this video to entertain audiences. (Will Ferrell as Pres. Bush)
What is satire?
300
The telling of a story from an uninvolved perspective.
What is third person narrative.
300
Direct quotes from the passage at hand.
What is textual evidence
300
When the author hints at actions that will come in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
300
An objective description or report.
What is expository/descriptive writing?
400
Because I have this larger goal, this greater commitment to somebody I love more than myself, I can get right back on track. (Stephen R. Covey, The 8th habit).
What is an appositive?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
A type of poem of 14 lines generally broken into 2 stanzas which ends in a couplet.
400
To deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
What is to infer?
400
An intentional reference to another literary work or piece of art that the reader should understand in order to make connections.
What is an allusion?
400
The genre of writing to create the script for an advertisement.
What is argument?
500
The skill Sherlock uses in this clip. (A Study in Pink, 10:00-12:02 & 18:10-18:50)
What is inferring/inference
500
The literary technique that Brian Reagan uses in this clip when making fun of Erwin.
What is allusion? (Nicolaus Copernicus: a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center)
500
A noun, noun phrase, or series of nouns placed next to another word or phrase to identify it, rename it, give examples, or add further information.
What is an appositive?
500
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics
What is satire?
500
A passage containing a thesis and evidence.
What is an argumentative passage?