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What is repetition and how is it used?
Repeating words or phrases for emphasis and to create a memorable effect. Can reinforce a central idea.
What is an appeal to emotion (pathos) and how is it used?
Using language to evoke emotional responses in the audience, making the argument more persuasive. Can create empathy or outrage.
What is an appeal to logic (logos) and how is it used?
Using facts, statistics, and logical reasoning to support a claim. Strengthens credibility.
What is an appeal to ethics (ethos) and how is it used?
Establishing credibility and trustworthiness to persuade the audience. Demonstrates the speaker's knowledge and integrity.
What is the use of metaphors?
Comparing two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as' to create a vivid image or deeper understanding.
What is the use of imagery?
Using descriptive language to appeal to the senses and create a vivid picture in the reader's mind.
What is the use of allusion?
Making a reference to a well-known person, event, or literary work to enrich the meaning.
What is the use of analogy?
Drawing a comparison between two different things to highlight a similarity for clarification.
What is the use of rhetorical question?
Asking a question not for an answer, but to emphasize a point or provoke thought.
What is the use of antithesis?
Presenting two contrasting ideas in parallel structure to create emphasis.
What is character description?
The author's way of introducing and detailing a character's physical, personality, and background traits.
Define unreliable narrator.
A narrator whose account of events is biased, misleading, or incomplete.
What is values dissonance?
A clash between a character's values and modern values or the author's time.
Define inference in character analysis.
Drawing conclusions about a character's traits based on their actions, words, and descriptions.
What is a character's motive?
The reason behind a character's actions; what drives them.
What is a character archetype?
A recurring character pattern or model, like 'the hero' or 'the mentor'.
Define character perspective.
A character's point of view on the world, events, and other characters.
What is an omniscient narrator?
A narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story.
What is a first-person narrator?
A narrator who is a character in the story and uses 'I' or 'we'.
Define stereotype.
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
What might blonde hair and blue eyes symbolize?
In older works, they often indicated a kind and sweet personality.