English review

Writer

Writer

 The person writing the piece of information, to know more info from the text we can ask ourselves what is their tone, persona, and identity to get a deeper level of thinking

Audience

This is who you are catering your information to; the general population who views the piece of info

Exigence

The problem, topic, occasion

Context

The current global issue

Purpose/message

what you intend to do with the shared information. The message is the way your info is received

Ethos

An appeal to ethics, characteristics, and credibility

Pathos

An appeal to emotions, feelings, and morality

Logos

An appeal to logic, statistics, facts, and evidence

Alliteration

“the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Aesthetic

concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty

Allusion

an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text

Analogy

a comparison between things that have similar features, often used to help explain a principle or idea

Archetype

an idea, symbol, pattern, or character-type, in a story

Anecdote

short and interesting story, or an amusing event, often proposed to support or demonstrate some point, and to make the audience laugh”

Coloquialism

word or expression that is commonplace within a specific language, geographic region, or historical era

Connotation

Implicit Meaning

Denotation

Explicit meaning

Diction

the linguistic choices made by a writer to convey an idea or point of view, or tell a story, in an effective way

Euphemism

figure of speech commonly used to replace a word or phrase that is related to a concept that might make others uncomfortable

Figurative Language- Onomatopoeia

the use of descriptive words that sound or mimic the noise they are describing” Examples: the floorboard creaked as she stepped into the house, the stars shined bright as the kids went door to door trick or treating

frame story (or story frame)

a story set within a story, narrative, or movie, told by the main or the supporting character

hyperbole

An extreme exaggeration not meant to be taken literally

imagery

the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader

irony

the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

juxtaposition

the fact of putting things that are not similar next to each othe

nostalgia

a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations

parallel structure

The technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side bt side an making them similar in form.

Balance within a sentence of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.

symbol

An object or idea that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract

narration/narrative

“I” point of view

Anecdote

Flashback

Characterization

Story servers to illustrate a point

Appeal to ethos and pathos

Description

Vivid imagery

Specific details

Concrete language 

Emphasis

Establish tone 

Appeals to pathos and ethos

Compare/Contrast

Counter-argument

Juxtaposition

Underscore the point

Appeals to logos and pathos

definition

Premise

Redefine

Limit scope/ qualifier

Clarification

Appeal to logos

“Big Picture” versus “Closer Look”

How is the entire passage organized (big picture) is there an organizational pattern at the paragraph/sentence level

Order of Significance

Most important to least important

Specific to General

Concrete to abstract

Categorical

Groups to sub-groups

Stylistic/ Tonal

Light to serious

Chronological

Oldest to most-recent