Name That Choice
An author describes a setting using words that appeal strongly to sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch. This authorial choice is being used...
What is Imagery?
This group receives or is intended to receive a message.
Who is the audience?
“Bradbury describes an automated house continuing to make breakfast after its owners are gone.” This is evidence, summary, or analysis.
What is summary?
In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” this is the unexpected object becomes the murder weapon.
What is a leg of lamb?
This is what happens to nature after humanity disappears in Teasdale's poem.
What is nature continues without humanity?
An author gives a house human behaviors such as “trying” to save itself. This authorial choice is...
What is Personification?
This term describes the reason or event that creates a need for a message.
What is exigence?
“The empty house emphasizes the absence of the people technology was designed to serve.” This is which one: summary or analysis?
What is analysis?
This major authorial choice allows readers to understand more about Mary's actions than the investigating officers.
What is dramatic irony?
This continues functioning after the humans are gone in Bradbury's story.
What is the automated house?
The reader knows something that a character does not know. This type of irony is being created...
What is Dramatic Irony?
Time period, historical events, cultural expectations, and social conditions are all part of this element of the rhetorical situation.
What is context?
This is what makes a piece of textual evidence analyzable.
What is authorial choice, pattern, language, structure, or detail that can be examined for its effect or meaning.
In “Death by Scrabble,” this ordinary activity becomes increasingly threatening as the story develops.
What is Scrabble?
This is the reason that Bradbury's inclusion of Teasdale's poem is particularly ironic.
What is the poem describes nature peacefully continuing after humanity disappears while the automated remains of human civilization are literally approaching their own destruction?
An author repeatedly places two very different ideas, images, or situations beside one another to emphasize their differences. This choice is being used.
What is contrast/juxtaposition?
An author wants readers to question whether technological progress actually makes humanity safer. This is the part of the rhetorical situation you are identifying.
What is purpose?
Upgrade this observation into an analytical claim: “Teasdale describes nature after humans disappear.”
What is Teasdale uses peaceful natural imagery after humanity's disappearance to minimize humanity's importance to the natural world?
Both Dahl and Fish transform ordinary domestic situations into something dangerous. This shared choice has this type of effect.
What is it creates suspense and dark humor by making familiar objects and situations unpredictable or threatening?
Teasdale presents nature continuing while Bradbury presents technology eventually failing. This is the larger idea these two observations begin to suggest.
What is human civilization and its creations may be less permanent or powerful than humanity assumes?
In the sentence “Bradbury uses imagery to create tension, develop irony, and criticize humanity's dependence on technology,” the verbs create, develop, and criticize follow the same grammatical pattern.
What is parallel structure?
This punctuation mark correctly completes the sentence: “Bradbury's audience witnessed rapid technological advancement ___ his story challenges the assumption that such advancement guarantees safety.”
What is a semicolon?
In academic writing, this technique occurs when a writer smoothly incorporates a quotation into their own sentence instead of dropping the quotation between two sentences.
What is quote integration?” or “What is embedding a quotation?
This grammatical error appears in the following sentence: “Mary appears calm after Patrick's death, the investigating officers do not recognize her as a suspect.”
What is a comma splice?
This punctuation mark belongs in the blank: “Teasdale portrays nature as peaceful and enduring ___ Bradbury, however, portrays human technology as fragile and temporary.”
What is a semicolon?