Vivid Verbs Targeting Tone Tricky Tropes Rhetorical Features America n Writers Final Lines
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 100 This 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 400 What 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?