Fiction
This Sophocles tragedy centers on a conflict between personal conscience and the law.
What is Antigone?
JFK’s Inaugural Address was delivered for this primary purpose.
What is to unify or inspire the nation?
A hint or clue about events that will occur later in a text is called this.
What is foreshadowing?
An appeal based on logic and reasoning is called this.
What is logos?
A sentence that presents the main argument of an essay is called this.
What is a thesis?
In “The Country of the Blind,” the villagers believe this is a myth.
What is sight?
According to the speech, Americans must be willing to pay this price to defend liberty.
What is any price?
A struggle between opposing forces within a character is known as this type of conflict.
What is internal conflict?
Analyzing how a speaker uses rhetorical strategies to achieve a purpose is known as this type of writing.
What is rhetorical analysis?
This type of writing explains ideas clearly and objectively.
What is expository (or informative)?
This Shakespearean play features a prophecy delivered by THESE three supernatural figures.
Who are the weird sisters?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie first encountered “single stories” through this medium.
What are books?
When the audience knows more than the characters, as in Macbeth after the witches’ prophecies, this is called this type of irony.
This element of the rhetorical situation explains why a text was written.
What is purpose?
This punctuation mark is used to join two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
This character believes ambition justifies immoral actions in order to gain power.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
According to Adichie, power determines this aspect of storytelling.
What is who tells the story and how it is told?
A recurring idea, image, or pattern in a text is known as this literary term.
What is motif?
JFK’s repeated phrase “Let both sides…” is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is anaphora?
After a quotation, writers should do this to explain how the evidence supports the claim.
What is analysis or commentary?
In Macbeth, blood most often symbolizes this abstract idea.
What is guilt?
Both JFK and Adichie emphasize the importance of this idea.
What is understanding others?
Blindness in “The Country of the Blind” symbolizes this broader idea.
What is limited perception?
In “The Country of the Blind,” Wells uses this technique to criticize societal assumptions.
What is satire?
When introducing a quotation, writers should include this instead of dropping the quote in abruptly.
What is a signal phrase?