Unit+6+Vocabulary+-+Literary+and+Rhetorical+Devices

"A dish" for an entrée. ||  || Cassius: The clock has stricken three. //Julius Caesar//, Act II, I (There were no clocks during Roman times, and the striking clock was not invented until 1,400 years after Caesar’s death.) ||  ||
 * Week 1 ||
 * ** Due April 29-30 ** ||
 * __**Assignment**__: Draw a chart like the one below. Copy the words, definitions, and examples verbatim through the warm-ups. On your own time, find examples from assigned readings throughout this past school year. Be sure to cite your examples. ||
 * || **Term** || **Definition** || **Teacher Example** || **Student Example** ||
 * 1 || ethos || the overall appeal of the speaker or writer; it is important that this person have impressive credentials, a notable knowledge of the subject, and/or appear to be a likeable and moral person || The author of "In Praise of the F Word" is both a parent and a teacher of adult literary classes, which helps to establish her credibility when she argues that the threat of failure should be used as a positive teaching tool. ||  ||
 * 2 || __pa__thos || appeal to audience's emotions -- think __pa__ssionate appeal || "We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: 'For Whites Only'" (Martin Luther King, Jr.). ||  ||
 * 3 || __log__os || appeal to an audience's sense of reason or __log__ic || "You know the truth…some Negroes lie … But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie" (Lee 273). ||  ||
 * 4 || syllogism || used in argumentation, a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion || All humans are mortal, (the major premise), I am a human, (the minor premise), therefore, I am mortal, (the conclusion). ||  ||
 * 5 || alliteration || repetition of __consonant sounds__ at the __beginning of words__ || "__P__eter __p__iper __p__icked a __p__eck of __p__ickled __p__eppers." ||  ||
 * 6 || anaphora || repetition of a __word or phrase__ at the __beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines__ || "__Mad__ world! __Mad__ kings! __Mad__ composition!" (King John, II, i). ||  ||
 * **Week 2** ||
 * **Due May 6-7** ||
 * __**Assignment:**__ Draw a chart like the one below. Copy the words, definitions, and examples verbatim through the warm-ups. On your own time, find examples from assigned readings throughout this past school year. Be sure to cite your examples. ||
 * || **Term** || **Definition** || **Teacher Example** || **Student Example** ||
 * 7 || __a__syndeton || the __absence of conjunctions__ between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words || "Are all thy conquests __**,**__ glories __**,**__ triumphs __**,**__ spoils __**,**__ / Shrunk to this little measure?" (Julius Caesar III, i) ||  ||
 * 8 || __poly__syndeton || __using conjuntions to emphasize rhythm__, and therefore emphasize a certain point || "The face of red __and__ white __and__ black swung through the air __and__ jigged toward Bill" (Golding 64) ||  ||
 * 9 || con__duplicat__io || repetition of a __key word over successive phrases or clauses__ || "We will have __difficult times__. We've had __difficult times__ in the past. And we will have __difficult times__ in the future" (Robert F. Kennedy's Eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968). ||  ||
 * 10 || rhetorical question || a question that is __posed for emphasis__, __not requiring an answer__ || "Art thou mad? Is not the truth the truth?" (Henry IV, Part 1, II, iv). ||  ||
 * 11 || a__pos__iopesis || a __sudden pause__ or interruption in the middle of a sentence || "I will have revenges on you both / That all the world shall __-- I will do such things --__ What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be / The terrors of the earth!" (King Lear II, iv). ||  ||
 * 12 || para__lipsis__ || __pretending to omit__ something by drawing attention to it || A politician saying: "I will not even mention the fact that my opponent was a poor student." ||  ||
 * 13 || antithesis || opposition or __juxtaposition__ of ideas or words in a __balanced or parallel construction__ || "Not __that I loved Caesar less __, but __that I loved Rome more __" (Julius Caesar, III, ii) ||  ||
 * 14 || allusion || an indirect __reference__ to a famous person, place, event, or literary work || "Maycomb county had recently been told it had __nothing to fear but fear itself__" (Lee 6) is an allusion to Franklin D. Roosevelt's inaugeral address ||  ||
 * **Week 3** ||
 * **Due May 13-14** ||
 * __**Assignment:**__ Draw a chart like the one below. Copy the words, definitions, and examples verbatim through the warm-ups. On your own time, find examples from assigned readings throughout this past school year. Be sure to cite your examples. ||
 * || **Term** || **Definition** || **Teacher Example** || **Student Example** ||
 * 15 || ambiguity || an event or situation that may be __interpreted in more than one way__. Also, the manner or expression of such an event or situation may be ambiguous. || A newspaper headline might read "Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers" ||  ||
 * 16 || irony (verbal) || expression in which __words mean something contrary to what is actually said__ || Looking at your wallet full of nothing but pennies and exclaiming, "Lunch is on me, guys -- I am rich!" ||  ||
 * 17 || euphemism || a substitution of __a more pleasant expression__ for one whose meaning may come across as rude or offensive || "He passed away," rather than "He died." ||  ||
 * 18 || hyperbole || __exaggeration__ for emphasis or for rhetorical effect || "I died laughing" ||  ||
 * 19 || understatement || deliberately __de-emphasizing__ something in order __to__ __downplay its importance__; the __opposite of hyperbole__; it is one of the primary devices of irony, used to develop a humorous effect, to create satire, or to achieve a restrained tone || "We teachers are rather good at magic, you know."- In 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'. ||  ||
 * 20 || meto__nm__y || a figure of speech that consists of the use of the __name__ of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related -- in meto__nm__y, think __n__a__m__e substitution || "The press" for the news media.
 * 21 || synecdoche || a __part__ or quality of something which is __used in substitution of the larger whole__, or vice versa || She took us outside to look at her new set of __wheels__. (referring to her new car) ||  ||
 * **Week 4** ||
 * **Due Friday, May 24** ||
 * __**Assignment**__: Draw a chart like the one below. Copy the words, definitions, and examples verbatim through the warm-ups. On your own time, find examples from readings, both personal and assigned from various teachers. Be sure to cite your examples. DO NOT TAKE EXAMPLES FROM THE INTERNET AND CLAIM THEM AS YOUR OWN. They must be from something YOU have READ personally because I want you to make connections with your reading, no matter what subject you are reading. ||
 * || **Term** || **Definition** || **Teacher Example** || **Student Example** ||
 * 22 || __person__ification || giving __human characteristics to non-human__ objects || The pen danced across the author's page ||  ||
 * 23 || apostrophe || an exclamatory address to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or personified abstraction || "__Oh death__, where is thy sting? __Oh grave__, where is thy victory?" (1 Cor. 15:55). ||  ||
 * 24 || paradox || a __seemingly contradictory__ or absurd statement that may nonetheless __suggest an important truth__ || "I can resist anything but temptation."-Oscar Wilde ||  ||
 * 25 || ana__chron__ism || assignment of something to a __time when it was not in existence__ || Brutus: Peace! Count the clock.
 * 26 || zuegma || a figure of speech in which __a word is used to__ modify or __govern two or more words__ although appropriate to only one of them or __making a different sense with each__ || "Mr. Pickwick __took__ his hat and his leave " (Charles Dickens). ||  ||
 * 27 || colloquialism || the use of __slang or informalities__ in speech or writing; not generally acceptable for formal writing, they give work a conversational, familiar tone || "'Sucks to your ass-mar!" (Golding 13). ||  ||