Tone
Rhetorical Devices
Types of Nonfiction
Purpose
Miscelllaneous
100
Definition of tone
What is the author's attitude on the topic?
100
I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
What is repetition?
100
Key features include graphic organizers and subheadings
What is an article?
100
At twenty-four she left all those opinions behind and went for the first time to live in Texas, where there were no trees to paint and no one to tell her how not to paint them. In Texas there was only the horizon she craved. In Texas she had her sister Claudia with her for a while, and in the late afternoons they would walk away from town and toward the horizon and watch the evening star come out.
What is to inform?
100
My fellow Americans, a tree takes a long time to grow, and wounds take a long time to heal. But we must begin. Those who are lost now belong to God. Some day we will be with them. But until that happens, their legacy must be our lives. Thank you all, and God bless you.
What is religious appeal?
200
He is saying: ‘Don’t drink. Don’t smoke. Don’t kill. Go to school every day, and remember, American is not your home.’
What is authoritative?
200
Can anyone look at the record of this Administration and say, "Well done"? Can anyone compare the state of our economy when the Carter Administration took office with where we are today and say, "Keep up the good work"? Can anyone look at our reduced standing in the world today say, "Let's have four more years of this"?
What is rhetorical question?
200
key features include thesis and supporting details
What is an essay?
200
Castroville's drinking water comes from the Roth River. The watershed begins on the slopes of Mount Eagle and flows nearly eighty-five miles from the river's headwaters. Naturally occurring fluoride in the Roth River is less than 0.5 ppm (parts per million), which is the detection limit for analyzing fluoride. The water is made safe to drink through conventional treatment methods and consistent monitoring.
What is to inform?
200
What is emotional appeal?
300
Two things are about to happen in Britain. Next month ministers will increase the value of benefits by just 3.1% – the equivalent of a real-terms cut in light of soaring inflation. At the same time, household costs will rocket: energy bills will increase by 54% from April alongside record high rents and a national insurance hike.
What is serious?
300
What is plain folk?
300
key features include claim, evidence, and use of spoken word
What is a speech?
300
What is to persuade?
300
What is bandwagon?
400
Universal basic income (UBI) is a radical policy proposal of a monthly cash grant given to all members of a community without means test, regardless of personal desert, with no strings attached, and, under most proposals, at a sufficiently high level to enable a life free from economic insecurity.
What is formal?
400
What is emotional appeal?
400
Key features include fiction elements and reflections on an event
What is a memior?
400
There was shame there. Now there was shame everywhere. It seemed like the whole world had been inside that classroom, everyone had heard what the teacher had said, everyone had turned around and felt sorry for me.
What is to reflect?
400
We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers—in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.
What is parallel structure?
500
We were worn out and worn down. Bone-weary and tearful. And in the end, it was all too much. In my case, the pressure of trying to keep all the balls in the air led to two severe depressive episodes when I was in my 30s.
What is honest?
500
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
What is parallel structure?
500
Purpose is to persuade using various types of rhetoric
What is an argument?
500
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. . . .” Her voice slid in and curved down through and over the words. She was nearly singing. I wanted to look at the pages. Were they the same that I had read? Or were there notes, music, lined on the pages, as in a hymn book? Her sounds began cascading gently. I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a single word.
What is to entertain?
500
What is testimony?