Poetic Techniques
This is a type of meter which consists of five feet known as iambs, which have one unstressed and one stressed syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
This is a type of narration in which the narrator is a separate entity from the characters of the story but only has access to the main characters thoughts and feelings.
What is third-person limited?
This is the main idea/argument/point of a nonfiction text.
What is thesis?
This is a type of nonfiction text in which the similarities and differences of two things are explained.
What is Compare and Contrast?
This is Mr. Tullier's first name.
What is Tyler?
This element of figurative language was used in "The Second Coming" by representing the post-war society as a falcon which couldn't hear its falconer.
What is symbolism?
This is a universal principle which can be extracted from a story and understood by anyone, anywhere, at any time.
This is an argument from the other side of an issue which can strengthen your own argument if you acknowledge and answer it.
What is counterargument?
This is a type of nonfiction text which describes its topic in detail.
What is Description?
This is Mr. Tullier's sister, whom he loves and who is one of this best friends.
Who is Maggie?
This is one of the inferences we could make about J. Alfred Prufrock based on his own confused speech.
What is "lonely?" What is "insecure?" What is "indecisive?"
This is the emotional association that we have with a word rather than the word's literal definition.
Ex. Slim is preferred over scrawny to describe one who is thin.
What is connotation?
This is the group of people to whom a nonfiction writer is attempting to appeal.
Ex. A political ad during election season is appealing to prospective voters.
What is target audience?
This is a type of nonfiction text which outlines the order of events in a process.
What is Sequence? What is Chronology?
This is what Mr. Tullier did before becoming a teacher.
What is insurance sales? What is fast food?
These are elements of sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound which construct a scene in a reader's mind and can be used to emphasize certain purposes by the author.
What is imagery? What are sensory details?
Rosemary Fell sending away Ms. Smith due to her husband's comments characterizes her as this.
What is insecure? What is jealous?
These are at least three of the five relative pronouns, whose job is to relate clauses to one another in a sentence.
What is who? What is whom? What is whose? What is which? What is that?
This is a nonfiction text which discusses a causal relationship between two distinct instances.
What is Cause and Effect?
This is Mr. Tullier's favorite poem of all time.
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?"
This is restating a section of text in your own words in a shorter format than the original text (perhaps 1-2 sentences).
What is paraphrasing?
Providing the reader with a view of how Rosemary sees the world and describing things from her perspective is the role of this individual in the short story "A Cup of Tea" by Katherine Mansfield.
Who is narrator?
This is a logical fallacy which states that if something can happen, then it either will happen or is likely to happen.
What is appeal to probability fallacy?
This is a text which identifies an issue and gives a call to action for the issue to be resolved.
What is Problem/Solution?
This is Mr. Tullier's current age.
What is 24?