Final Exam Assesment

Rhetoric

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

Ethos

Persuasion through the speaker’s or writer’s education, experience, trustworthy, likability and motivation.

Pathos

Persuasion through emotional appeal.

Logos

Persuasion through logical argument, including reasoning, facts, statistics, expert opinion, and research/studies.

Rhetorical Question

A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Parallelism

Using similar words, clauses, phrases, sentence structure, or other grammatical elements to emphasize similar ideas in a sentence.

Propaganda

Presenting one sided information to promote an opinion.

Restatement

An act of stating the same idea in different words.

Loaded Language/Emotive Language/Emotional Appeal

Using strong, emotionally charged language; words with positive and negative associations that draw attention to the point.

Denotation

The dictionary meaning of a word.

Connotation

The positive or negative charge that a word may have.

Context Clues

Hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.

Author's Purpose

The author's reason for writing, which can be to persuade, inform, or entertain.

MLA Format

Size 12 font, Times New Roman, double-spaced, a heading, header, citations, and Works Cited page with an inch margin around the paper.

Parenthetical Citation

The in-text citation that follows a quote in text/paragraph to give credit to the source, including the author’s last name and page number.

Header

Your last name a half inch down from the top of the page in the right corner with a sequential number for each page.

Titles

Titles of small writings (articles, short stories, poems, songs, speeches) are identified with quotation marks and titles of long writings (books, plays, newspapers) are underlined.

Speaker

The character or narrator of the poem.

Stanza

A group of lines that are surrounded by extra spaces in a poem.

Rhyme Scheme

The pattern of rhyme in a poem as identified by lowercase letters.

External Rhyme

When words at the end of a line of poetry rhyme.

Internal Rhyme

When words within a line of poetry rhyme.

Exact Rhyme

When the vowel sounds and ending sounds match.

Slant Rhyme

A half rhyme or an approximate rhyme.

Imagery

Creating an image with sensory descriptions.

Hyperbole

Exaggeration.

Personification

Giving human qualities to an object or an animal.

Metaphor

A comparison between two different things.

Extended Metaphor

A comparison that continues over multiple lines or sentences.

Simile

A comparison between two different things, containing the words 'like' or 'as'.

Dialect

A regional way of speaking.

Onomatopoeia

Words that sound like a sound.

Foreshadowing

Hints or clues as to what happens next.

Flashback

When a character remembers an event from an earlier time.

Dramatic Irony

When characters and audience know something that the other characters do not.

Verbal Irony

When the speaker intends to mean the opposite of the usual meaning of their words.

Situational Irony

When the outcome is the opposite of what was expected.

Characterization

Learning information about a character through their thoughts, words, actions, and treatment of others.

Mood

The feeling created in the reader by a text.

Tone

The author’s attitude toward the subject.

Point of View

The view in which the story is told.

Setting

Information about when and where the story takes place.

Conflict

The struggle between two opposing forces.

Theme

The lesson the author wants the reader to learn.

Rising Action

A series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the climax.

Climax

The most exciting part of the story when the character makes an important decision.

Resolution

The solution to the conflict.