Literary Analysis
The lesson or message an author hopes to impart.
What is theme?
Reading between the lines to reach a conclusion.
What is making an inference?
A sentence with one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
The sentence that states the author's main purpose or point.
What is thesis statement?
We know that Juliet is not dead, but alas, Romeo does not.
What is dramatic irony?
The struggle between opposing forces that moves the story forward.
What is conflict?
An author repeats the image of storm clouds building before major conflicts.
What is foreshadowing?
Correct the error:
Neither the students nor the teacher were prepared.
What is "was prepared"?
These are the three primary rhetorical appeals.
What are ethos, pathos and logos?
"jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence"
What is oxymoron?
A character starts off as selfish but learns to put others first. This is a ____ character.
What is dynamic character?
Quoting something verbatim (word for word) vs summarizing or referencing the moment.
What is direct quote vs indirect quote?
Identify the error:
Running through the hallway, the bell rang loudly.
What is a dangling modifier?
A celebrity holding a product adds this rhetorical appeal to the ad.
What is ethos?
"She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves." (Kate Chopin)
What is imagery?
Two readers disagree about the theme. One kid insists it's "true love" while the other insists it's "love requires forgiveness". Which is stronger and why?
What is "love requires forgiveness" because a theme is a message on a topic and not just a topic.
Identify the three parts of this quote:
Jackson describes how the "morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green" (523).
What is the lead-in, the quote, and the parenthetical citation?
You use this to separate two independent clauses that lack a coordinating conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
This is the primary difference between an informational/expository writing and an argumentative essay.
What is providing a counterclaim and rebuttal?
"And the wind cries 'Mary'."
What is personification?
The name for the basic plot diagram (the one that's shaped like a witch's hat).
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
You use three quotation marks to indicate this to the reader.
What is you are quoting dialogue?
These are six of the eight basic parts of speech.
What are noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunctions, and/or interjections?
This is the style in which we write essays in an English class.
What is MLA?
"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
What is allusion?