Lit Term Review

Using logical arguments/facts to prove a point

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

• first-person narration

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.SL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.1A

CCSS.W.8.1B

a character who serves as a direct contrast to another character as a device to emphasize the qualities of the main character (Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes)

• antihero

• logos

• Foil

• rhetoric

a classic pattern used in fiction that's guaranteed to satisfy most audiences

• protagonist

• point of view/narration

• theme

• storytelling arc

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.5

the main character: the person for whom the reader roots (Luke Skywalker)

• protagonist

• antagonist

• antihero

• foil

a method developed by Aristotle to always win an argument

• theme

• rhetoric

• butterflies

• foil

touching reader's emotions

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

• hyperbole

when the protagonist is actually a villain of the story, but we empathize anyway (Dexter, Walter White, Tony Soprano)

• antagonist

• antihero

• foil

• the other guy

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.9

uses "I" pronoun

• first-person narration

• third-person narration

• second-person narration

• theme

an insight about human life that's revealed in a literary work

• third-person objective

• storytelling arc

• theme

• ethos

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.9

the opponent who blocks the protagonist (Darth Vader)

• antagonist

• antihero

• exposition

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9