Author's Purpose
The definition of author's purpose.
What is "the reason an author is writing a text"?
The definition of diction.
What is "the author's choice of words"?
The definition of main idea.
What is "what the text is mostly about"?
The definition of a metaphor.
What is "a comparison that does not use 'like' or 'as'"?
The definition of rhetoric.
What is "the study of effective speaking and writing"?
The three main author's purposes. (*Hint: PIE.)
What is "to persuade, to inform, and to entertain"?
The two main types of diction.
What is "informal and formal diction"?
The definition of theme.
What is "the moral or universal lesson of a story"?
Name the figurative language: "The sun smiled down on the grass."
What is "personification"?
The three rhetorical appeals.
What is "ethos, logos, and pathos"?
The reason why it is important to know the author's purpose.
What is "to understand the author's motives/reasons they want you to feel a certain way about their text"?
Type of diction that is "often filled with descriptive words that are quite precise and sentences are usually longer and more complex."
What is "formal diction"?
Main Idea or Theme: Overcoming obstacles is the key to progress.
What is a "theme"?
A figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
What is "hyperbole"?
The rhetorical appeal of the following ad: https://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/atandt-sues-verizon-over-theres-a-map-for-that-ads/ (verizon vs. at&t) *YOUR RESPONSE MUST EXPLAIN WHY.
What is "logos because it uses statistics/facts to appeal to viewer's logic"?
The author's purpose of our excerpt from the Autobiography of Malcolm X.
What is "to inform the reader of Malcolm X's life and to persuade black people during the Civil Rights movement to educate themselves"?
Type of diction that "often assumes that the audience already knows what you're talking about, uses shorter words, and may be incomplete or ignore some finer points of grammar and usage."
What is "informal diction"?
Main Idea or Theme: A witch lures little boys and girls into her gingerbread house.
What is "main idea"?
Name the figurative language: Sally sold a few shells on the shore last month.
What is "alliteration"?
The rhetorical appeal of the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KQTCEM08k&t=20s (Apple- Misunderstood) *YOUR RESPONSE MUST EXPLAIN WHY.
What is "ethos; it evokes an emotional response in the viewer because of the ability of technology to bring families closer"?
The author's purpose of "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
What is "to inform King's critics, the clergymen, of his reasons for protesting in Alabama/being arrested and to defend his name and actions"?
What is "informal diction because it uses the colloquialism 'y'all' and expects that the listener knows what the speaker is talking about"?
Main Idea or Theme: The circle of life is what makes our world go 'round.
What is a "theme"?
The three types of irony.
What is "situational, verbal, and dramatic"?
The rhetorical appeal of the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq2CvmgoO7I (Nike: Dream Crazy) *YOUR RESPONSE MUST EXPLAIN WHY.
What is "ethos and pathos; the ad appeals to emotion because it uses the struggle of being great in sports and also famous sport's figure Colin Kaepernick to market the brand"?