Bias vs Unbias/Extras/Random
Bias means:
prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What poetic device is being used in the following line of the Raven? "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before"
Alliteration
This type of rhetorical device is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response to an impassioned plea or a convincing story.
Pathos
“The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers”
Personification
This type of literature's purpose is to entertain as well as inform or persuade.
Literary Nonfiction
Definition of unbiased:
showing no prejudice for or against something; impartial
"Hold steady. Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. We depend on you. I don't think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now."
Pathos
an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text is:
Allusion
"The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the gray head off a dry dandelion flower"
Metaphor
This type of literature uses exact facts that have been fact-checked or peer-reviewed. These facts are primary sources, first-hand accounts, or researched by an expert.
Nonfiction or Informational Text
Sarah Koenig choosing to not introduce Jay on a personal level until episode 8 and 12 is an example of:
Bias
What type of figurative language is present? "Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority"
Hyperbole
The fact that Poe created 7 rooms in the "Masque of the Red Death" could be intentionally written to connect with the 7 stages of life, or the 7 deadly sins. This type of figurative language is called:
Symbolism
“A great nuzzling gout of fire leapt out to lap at the books and knock them against the wall”
Personification
This type of fiction uses no historical facts with the exception that historical fiction might use real dates or events to accurately depict the setting of a story.
Fiction
"Now imagine you have to account for a day that happened six weeks back. Because that's the situation in the story I'm working on in which a bunch of teenagers had to recall a day six weeks earlier. And it was 1999, so they had to do it without the benefit of texts or Facebook or Instagram."
Bias- this isn't just "any old day" this is a day his ex girlfriend went missing
What poetic device is being used in the following line: "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping"
Internal Rhyme
The following line from Shakespeare's sonnet 130 is an example of which type of figurative language?
"I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound"
Metaphor
"Walk carefully. Guard your health. If anything should happen to Harris, you are the Book of Ecclesiastes"
Allusion
This type of literature's purpose is to only entertain an audience.
Fiction
The theme of "The Raven" could be considered:
grief can overcome a person's ability to live in the present and engage with society.
What element of gothic horror is described?: "But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death. His vesture was dabbled in blood—and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror."
Supernatural
"The Raven" is considered what type of poem?
Narrative Poem:
form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse
"Twice in half an hour, Montag had to rise from the game to go to the latrine to wash his hands. When he came back he hid his hands under the table"
Allusion to Lady Macbeth
Literary Nonfiction can be defined as:
Characterization of real life people takes shape through what the author includes in the narrative to form direct and indirect characterization of a real person.