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Appeal to Pathos

Appeal to a person's emotions

Stanza

Group of lines in a poem

Narration

Writing that tells a story

Interior Monologue

A record of a characters thoughts

Dear Diary

Speaker

Author, or person whose perspective is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing

Allegory

Story with multiple levels of meaning the literal level and the symbolic level

Persona

The speaker Voice or character assumed by the author

The mask

Slant Rhyme

Imperfect rhythm

No one's perfect

Appeal to Logos

Appeal to a person's sense of logic

Onomatopoeia

Words referring to sound

Comics

Hyperbole

Extreme exaggeration

Assonance

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

I lie down by the seaside

Cacophony

Clash of heart sounds in a sentence/ phrase

Euphony

Pleasing arrangement of sounds

Band or orchestra

Monologue

Speech from one person

Refrain

A phrase in a poem that repeats

Chorus

Pathetic Fallacy

Events in nature that mimic the current plot of the story

Thunderstorms and epic battles

Appeal to Ethos

Appeal to a person's character sincerity or trustworthiness

Historical

Reference to an important historical event

Exposition

Writing that explains

Syntax

The way a writer chooses to join words Clauses and sentences together

Writing process

Dialogue

Speech between characters

Analogy

Comparison between two things explaining something complex in a simplistic way

Biblical

Reference to the Bible

Illusions

Reference to something believed to be commonly known

Remember

Quatrain

A four-line stanza

Act

Major section into which a place divided

Rhetoric

Art of effective communication

People who give speeches

End-Stopped line

A break at the end of a line of poetry

Scene

A smaller section of an act

Consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds

In a kingdom by the sea

Caesure

A sudden break in poetry

Karate chop

Aside

Speaking directly to the audience

Rhyme Scheme

Pattern of rhyme in a poem

Serial killers scheme

Sound Devices

The technique of using the sound of words

Skills

Literary

Reference to a famous piece of literature

Alliteration

Repetition of beginning sounds

The baby bee buzzes by berries

Oxymoron

Association of two contradictory terms

The Wise Fool

Octave

8 line stanza

Stage directions

Instructions in a script of a play

Drama club

Rhetorical Modes

Patterns of organization developed to achieve something

Putting a puzzle together

Couplet

Two successive rhyme lines equal in length

Persuasion / argumentation

Writing that tries to convince appoint

Description

Writing that describes

Anachronism

Anything out of its proper time

Doctor Who

Rhetorical Question

Question ask to emphasize a point

Classical

Reference to Greek or Roman mythology

Paradox

Statement appearing contradictory but actually expresses deeper truth

Sestet

Six line stanza

Syntactical Devices

The way a poet brakes lines in poetry

Karate chop swoopy or in the middle

Enjambment

Line in poetry that continues with no break

Swoopy or never ending

Soliloquy

When an alone character speaks thoughts

To be or not to be that is the question