Non-Fiction & Symbolism
Writing that is about real events and facts, rather than stories that have been invented.
What is Non-Fiction?
Descriptive details in setting (the picture the writer creates)
What do we call the reason a person writes a particular text?
What is author's purpose?
To convince an audience using emotions?
What is pathos?
Is a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity
What is repetition?
A true story told as a memory, usually in the past tense
What is a memoir?
The author’s/narrator's attitude towards the text
What is tone?
How the reader feels in response to the text (emotional effect of audience)
What is mood?
To convince an audience using logic?
What is logos?
Questions that do not require a reply.
What is rhetorical questions?
Talk or public address; purpose may be to entertain, to explain, to present a claim, to inspire or to entertain.
What is a speech?
Conclusion that a reader makes while reading or after reading. This conclusion is based on what the reader knows outside the text plus information that is presented in the text, an educated guess.
What is an inference?
Main idea or central insight into life that exists in the story. It may occur as a moral, a lesson, a human value, quality or truth.
What is theme?
To convince an audience using credibility?
What is ethos?
The use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance
What is parallelism?
Short work of non-fiction that deals with a single subject.
What is an essay?
Writer’s word choice: Connotation/ Denotation
What is diction?
Is depicting a person in clear images that reveal his physical appearance, his actions, his thoughts, his speech, and his attitudes towards his life and those around him.
What is charcaterization?
What is the writer’s position on an issue or problem?
What is a claim?
Is a point-by-point comparison between two things that are alike in some respect
What is an analogy?
What are the three types of Symbolism?
What is universal, conventional, and contextual symbolism?
Person, object, action, place, or event that, in addition to its literal meaning, suggests a more complex meaning or range of meanings.
What is symbolism?
What are the three main author's purpose?
What is persuade, inform, and entertain?
Is a speech or writing that presents a claim about an issue or problem and supports it with reasons and evidence.
What is an argument?