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Vivid Verbs
Targeting Tone
Tricky Tropes
Rhetorical Features
American Writers
Final Lines
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Vivid Verbs 100
A better way to say “to paint a picture”
Vivid Verbs 100
What is “to illustrate”?
Vivid Verbs 200
a fancy way to say “to make a list”
Vivid Verbs 200 What is “to
enumerate”?
Vivid Verbs 300
Impressive way to say “to confidently state one’s view”
Vivid Verbs 300
What is “to assert”?
Vivid Verbs 400
to say something boldly
Vivid Verbs 400
What is “to proclaim”?
Vivid Verbs 500
To completely criticize an idea
Vivid Verbs 500
What is “to denounce”?
Targeting Tone 100
An author chooses words based on their connotation as well as their denotation.
Targeting Tone 100
What is diction?
Targeting Tone 200
An author uses these to invoke readers’ senses
Targeting Tone 200
What are images?
Targeting Tone 300
Sometimes what an author focuses on is as important as what he or she omits
Targeting Tone 300
What are details?
Targeting Tone 400
Examples include: formal, informal, pedantic, didactic
Targeting Tone 400
What is language?
Targeting Tone 500
Examples: simple, compound, complex, periodic, parallel
Targeting Tone 500
What is sentence structure?
Tricky Tropes 100
“This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling. Like a huge organ, rise the burinshed arms,” wrote Longfellow.
Tricky Tropes 100
What is simile?
Tricky Tropes 200
In Dickinson’s poem, Death drives a carriage and stops for passengers.
Tricky Tropes 200
What is personification?
Tricky Tropes 300
“I am hurt. Call me a grave man. In the morning, you may find me dead.”
Tricky Tropes 300
What is pun?
Tricky Tropes 400
Bryant asks a waterfowl “dost thou pursue thy solitary way?”
Tricky Tropes 400
What is apostrophe?
Tricky Tropes 500
“Lend me your ears”
Tricky Tropes 500
What is synecdoche?
Rhetorical Features 100
It is necessary to build this to be taken seriously.
Rhetorical Features 100
What is credibility?
Rhetorical Features 200
An incorrectness in reasoning.
Rhetorical Features 200
What is a logical fallacy?
Rhetorical Features 300
Using a sensible argument with facts and statistics
Rhetorical Features 300
What is logos?
Rhetorical Features 400
Using an emotional argument; playing on fears or sympathies
Rhetorical Features 400
What is pathos?
Rhetorical Features 500
Using your research, experience or position to gain allegiance
Rhetorical Features 500
What is ethos?
American Writers 100
The Baltimore Ravens were named after his famous poem
American Writers 100
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
American Writers 200
“An American Scholar” who preached the benefits of nature via transcendentalism.
American Writers 200
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
American Writers 300
This beloved author was born in Lorain, Ohio and has won both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize.
American Writers 300
Who is Toni Morrison?
American Writers 400
This writer expressed sour grapes toward businessmen who crushed Oklahoma farmers.
American Writers 400
Who is John Steinbeck?
American Writers 500
This satirist was born and died in years when Haley’s comet appeared.
American Writers 500
Who is Mark Twain?
Final Lines 100This novel concludes, “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
Final Lines 100
What is a Tale of Two Cities?
Final Lines 200
This novella concludes with the line “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Final Lines 200
What is Animal Farm?
Final Lines 300
This novel concludes, “He loved Big Brother.”
Final Lines 300
What is 1984?
Final Lines 400
This novel concludes, “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
Final Lines 400What is Catcher in the
Rye?
Final Lines 500
This novella concludes, “The old man was dreaming about the lions.”
Final Lines 500
What is The Old Man and the
Sea?