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Rhetoric
100
How to become a writer
What is Lorrie Moore
100
Reaching of the official age of adulthood and legal responsibility
What is Coming of Age
100
Writing manual to become a writer, process and preparation. But ironically suggesting how to not become one.
What is How to become a writer
100
take off credits of something, lessening its importance
What is Diminution
100
Ethics, image
What is Ethos
200
Killing Chickens
What is Meredith Hall
200
The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
What is Flashback
200
Change of life, killing hope, trauma
What is Killing Chickens
200
The act of inflating something
What is inflation
200
Emotions, image
What is pathos
300
American
What is Joshua Clark
300
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning or incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs
What is Irony
300
Hurricane/ trauma leading to peoples decisions. Characters choose the opposite of hope. Chaos,
What is Americans
300
taking the opposite point of view
What is reversal
300
Logic
What is logos
400
Burying Jeremy Green
What is Nora Bonner
400
A direct comparison of two different things
What is Metaphor
400
Coming of age, learning, trauma- firing gun
What is Burying Jeremy Green
400
not balanced uncommon set up/feeling
What is incongruity
400
Something meant to provoke action ( to buy)
What is Advertisement
500
Where I slept
What is Stephen Elliot
500
A piece of creative work, that imitates and often satirizes another work or style
What is Pastiche
500
Ugly side of human nature, tragedy, journey, survive.
What is Where I slept
500
imitation of an author or his work with the idea of ridiculing the work
What is parody
500
Something meant to provoke a feeling
What is propaganda