Characterization
What is indirect characterization?
The author shows the reader character traits through the character's actions, words, etc.
She was a storm cloud stomping through the hall is an example of what type of figurative language?
Metaphor
What is the name of the sentence that explains the topic and main points an essay will cover?
Thesis statement
What rhetorical device appeals to an expert or moral character?
Ethos
What is theme?
Author's comment on life, society, or humanity.
What is the acronym WALTeR used for?
To analyze a character.
What literary term is given to a word that is spelled like it sounds?
Onomatopoeia
What is the purpose of DICE?
To help analyze literature.
What kinds of things give a reader clues that logos is being used in an argument?
Facts, numbers, statistics, logic
What is the literary term for the introduction or beginning of a story?
Exposition
What type of character is a character that readers know a lot about?
Round
What is personification?
Giving human qualities to an inanimate object.
Write the correct citation format for a quote from page 84 in George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm.
(Orwell 84).
Pathos appeals to what?
Emotion
What is the term for the perspective a story is being told from?
Point of view
What type of character is a character that undergoes an important inner change?
Dynamic
He was as cold as ice is an example of what literary term?
Simile
What is an inference?
When a reader draws a logic conclusion from information in a text.
What type of persuasive appeal is used in the following sentence: Your donation can help feed 12 starving animals in shelters. Don't you have a heart?
Pathos
What are the five components of a story?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
What is direct characterization?
When the author explicitly tells the reader a trait of a character.
What is an allusion?
When an author references another well-known person, text, movie, etc.
What are the four elements of the DICE strategy?
Deconstruct, Infer, Connect, and Explain
What type of persuasive appeal is used in the following sentence: Doctors recommend 8 hours of sleep a night for optimal energy the next day.
Ethos
What is the difference between tone and mood?
Tone is the author's attitude and mood is how the reader feels.