Definition of Terms
Comparing two things using the words "like" or "as"
Would Cicero have shone so distinguished an orator if he had not been roused, kindled, and inflamed by the tyranny of Catiline, Verres, and Mark Anthony?
What is rhetorical questions and allusion?
When a comparison is made WITHOUT using the words “like or as”
What is metaphor?
I check my time about four times per hour. I carry my phone around me as if it were an oxygen tank.
What is What it Takes to Put Your Phone Away by Jia Tolentino?
Specific word choice used to emphasize an idea
What is diction?
When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities, which would otherwise lie dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
What is personification?
When a sentence is deliberately long or deliberately short to emphasize an idea or to create urgency
What is syntax?
No matter the subject, our teachers never gave us clear advice about how to do better. When I couldn't understand long divisions or fractions and decimals in math, I felt bad at first...I was told to "try harder," but none of my teachers spent extra time with me to over what I was doing wrong.
What is "School" by Kyoko Mori?
a reference to a well-known person, character, place, or event that a writer makes to deepen the reader's understanding of their work by creating an association between the work and the reference
What is allusion?
Last year 150 students graduated from NLHS.
What is facts?
An inquiry that ends in a question mark but is asked for effect rather than to elicit an answer. It's often used in persuasive writing but is also common in everyday conversation.
What is rhetorical questions?
My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
What is "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nick Carr?
When a sentence structure is being repeated
What is anaphora?
People will tell you that you have to know math to be a scientist, or physics or chemistry. They’re wrong. That’s like saying you have to know how to knit to be a housewife, or that you have to know Latin to study the Bible.
What is analogy?
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, to expose, denounce, corruption of institutions, people, or social structures
What is satire?
Damiens, who cried out profusely, though without swearing, raised his head and looked at himself; the same executioner dipped an iron spoon in the pot containing the boiling potion, which he poured liberally over each wound. Then the ropes that were to be harnessed to the horses were attached with cords to the patient's body; the horses were then harnessed and placed alongside the arms and legs, one at each limb.
What is Discipline and Punishment by Foucault?
Personal stories presented to emphasize a lesson learned or a specific point
What is an anecdote?
You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs upon the reasons they are dying.
What is juxtaposition?
The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with a contrasting effect. One is contrasted with another in order to emphasize a particular point
I was beyond thrilled on election night [when Obama was elected]. Yet when I walked out of the election night party, I was immediately reminded of the harsh realities of the New Jim Crow. A black man was on his knees in the gutter, hands cuffed behind his back, as several police officers stood around him talking, joking, ignoring his very existence.
What is The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander?