Literary Word to Your Teacher
Selecting the appropriate word for the situation, which can set the scene or evoke a mood in writing
What is diction?
This 17th and 18th-century intellectual movement focused on reason, empiricism, and scientific inquiry
What is the Enlightenment?
This late 18th and early 19th-century artistic movement emphasized emotion, individualism, nature, and the imagination as a reaction against Enlightenment rationalism.
What is British Romanticism?
Frankenstein is structured as this type of narrative, in which Walton writes letters to his sister, Victor tells his story to Walton, and the Creature tells his story to Victor — layering multiple storytellers
What is a frame story?
In argumentative writing, this is the specific, verifiable fact, quote, or data point that makes a reason concrete and answers the question: “What proof shows this reason is real?"
What is evidence?
Words, phrases, or clauses that have similar or identical forms, structures, and/or sounds
What is parallel structure?
This Enlightenment concept holds that knowledge comes from experience and observation rather than innate ideas or tradition
What is empiricism?
The core values of British Romanticism include emotion, individualism, imagination, and _____.
What is nature?
In Chapter 15, the Creature finds and reads three books in the forest. One of them is this epic poem by JOhn Milton that causes him to compare himself to both Adam and Satan.
What is Paradise Lost?
This framework for incorporating evidence into arguments stands for Point, Illustrate and Explain.
What is the PIE framework?
In informational texts and speeches, this term describes an author or speaker’s unique attitude toward a topic or perception of an issue or event
What is perspective?
This Enlightenment figure first described the idea of gravity and is also mentioned by Victor Frankenstein when he talks about his education.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
British Romanticism developed as a backlash to the Industrial Revolution and this philosophical movement.
What is the Enlightenment?
In Chapter 12, the Creature performs this act of kindness for the De Lacey family before ever revealing himself, demonstrating his Romantic capacity for goodness.
What is secretly gathering wood for them?
A strong claim must be specific, debatable, significant, and this—meaning it can be supported with textual proof.
What is provable?
These argumentative writing techniques include appealing to the audience’s emotions, presenting information from experts, and providing logical explanations or evidence
What are rhetorical appeals?
In Latin, this concept associated with John Lock is called tabula rasa and describes the idea that the human mind filled by experience
What is blank slate?
This is the Romantic idea that nature can be both beautiful and terrifying, awe-inspiring and overpowering, all at the same time.
What is the sublime?
Mary Shelley deliberately chose to filter the story through letters that this character receive from her brother Walton, an Arctic explorer.
Who is Walton’s sister Margaret?
This four-letter framework helps us evaluate the quality of evidence by looking at the relevance, accuracy, credibility, and sufficiency of our proof.
What is RACS?
This is the use of humor and/or irony in art and literature to expose truths about people, institutions, or society—as Jonathan Swift did in A Modest Proposal
What is satire?
This Enlightenment scientist is the reason we have the scientific method today.
Who is Francis Bacon?
In Frankenstein, both Victor and Walton are possessed by this characteristics, part of the idea of the isolated Romantic hero who is a brooding, passionate figure pursuing a singular goal at the cost of human connection.
What is ambition?
The Creature gives Victor two demands. The first is for Victor to listen to his story; the second is this.
What is that Victor create a female companion for him?
These are the four moves that a strong conclusion can make.
What are synthesize, raise the stakes, return to something, and leave a lasting impression?