1. ELA Review Figurative Language The Tipping Point Truce

2. From The Tipping Point, ______ people are a type of exceptional people...they are energetic, knowledgeable, influential Law of the Few

3. From The Tipping Point, what is exponential growth? When something grows at a rate proportional to the size of the population

4. A fad is short lived; a craze; widely shared enthusiasm for something

5. From The Tipping Point, what is “a dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything changes all at once”? a tipping point

6. The Stickiness Factor is ______ A way to make a message memorable

7. _______ is an epidemic rule that emphasizes that humans are more sensitive to their environment than they realize. The Power of Context

8. Connectors are ______ rare people with large social networks

9. How does Paul Revere relate to concepts from the book The Tipping Point? He is a connector (and a salesman). He spread a word-of-mouth epidemic

10. Salesmen mostly focus on ______ Persuading people

11. A maven is ______ Someone who loves learning and sharing knowledge

12. Name the countries on the two sides for World War I (Allies: _____, Other:___) Allies: France, Belgium, Britain Other: Germany

13. Estimate: How many people (soldiers and civilians) died in World War I? over 14 million

14. What is the name of Germany’s plan to first attach France via Belgium, then attack Russia? The Schlieffen plan

15. The study of writing or speaking for persuasion. rhetoric

16. ___________ is a logical appeal Logos

17. An emotional appeal is called _____ Pathos

18. Ethos is... An appeal to establish credibility of the speaker or writer

19. ____ is the author’s opinion about life, nature, or society. Theme

20. The author’s choice of words is _____ Diction

21. _____ goes against the main character (often the bad guy). Antagonist

22. Plot Sequence of events in a narrative

23. What does it mean to “redress a wrong”? To seek justice or revenge for something done to you

24. Define proportional Equal to or equivalent; the same amount

25. Argumentation writing focuses on this _____ appeal. Logos or logical

26. A scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event Flashback

27. The main character in a work; the character with whom the readers identify Protagonist

28. Words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses Imagery

29. A comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words “like” or “as” simile

30. The use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action Foreshadowing

31. A reference in a literary work to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing Allusion

32. Comparison between two seemingly unlike things that actually have something important in common Metaphor

33. The way you feel when you read a story. The author purposefully writes a story to create this Mood

34. The perspective from which a narrative is told Point of view

35. The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound Alliteration

36. The use of any object, person, place, or action that has both meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as quality, attitude, belief, or value Symbolism

37. Imitative harmony; the use of words that mimic the sounds they describe Onomatopoeia

38. Name the strongest (1) type of appeal in this war propaganda poster: Logos

39. The kind of metaphor that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas Personification

40. A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration Hyperbole

41. The writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject, character, or audience Tone

42. Name the strongest appeal in this propaganda (pick 1): Pathos

43. “It made the school look like a museum.” What literary device is this an example of? Simile

44. “With nothing to block it, the wind flung wet gusts at me … There were several trees bleakly reaching into the fog.” What literary device is this an example of? Personification

45. “The tree was tremendous, an irate, steely black steeple beside the river.” What literary device is this an example of? Metaphor

46. “It had loomed in my memory as a huge long spike dominating the riverbank, forbidding as an artillery piece...” What literary device is this an example of? Simile

47. Imagery “In through swinging doors I reached a marble foyer, and stopped at the foot of a long white marble flight of stairs. Although they were old stairs, the worn moons in the middle of each step were not very deep.” What literary device is this an example of?

48. “She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound.” What literary device is this an example of? Alliteration

49. Write a sentence including a simile, metaphor, and alliteration

50. Create a sentence with personification and onomatopoeia

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