Author's Purpose and Perspective

What is author's purpose?

• • the way the author views a topic or subject, and his/her attitude toward it

• • an author’s reason for writing, such as to persuade, to inform, or to entertain

• the way the author explains something

• the way the author feels about their writing

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.6

What is author's perspective?

• the way the author views a topic or subject, and his/her attitude toward it

• • an author’s reason for writing, such as to persuade, to inform, or to entertain

• the way the author feels about their writing

• the way an author explains something

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.6

What is logos?

• an appeal that attempts to establish the author’s credibility and remind the audience of shared values and beliefs.

• an appeal that evokes emotion, such as feelings of anger or sadness.

• an appeal that uses logic, supported by evidence, facts, or statistics.

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.8

What is pathos?

• an appeal that evokes emotion, such as feelings of anger or sadness

• an appeal that attempts to establish the author’s credibility and remind the audience of shared values and beliefs.

•  an appeal that uses logic, supported by evidence, facts, or statistics.

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is ethos?

• an appeal that evokes emotion, such as feelings of anger or sadness.

• an appeal that attempts to establish the author’s credibility and remind the audience of shared values and beliefs.

• an appeal that uses logic, supported by evidence, facts, or statistics.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

What is antithesis?

• a parallel construction that highlights contrast i.e. exact opposite.

• the intended meaning of a speaker’s words contrasts with the literal meaning

• • a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered.

• a word for a part is used to represent the whole.

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is verbal irony?

• a parallel construction that highlights contrast i.e. exact opposite.

• • a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered.

• the intended meaning of a speaker’s words contrasts with the literal meaning (e.g. sarcasm).

• a word for a part is used to represent the whole.

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a rhetorical question?

• a word for a part is used to represent the whole.

• a word that is associated with something is used to represent that thing.

• a parallel construction that highlights contrast i.e. exact opposite.

• • a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered.

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.L.8.6

What is synedoche?

• one word applied to two other words forming two pairs, in which one pair expresses a literal meaning and the other pair expresses a figurative meaning.

• a word for a part is used to represent the whole.

• a word that is associated with something is used to represent that thing.

• • the intended meaning of a speaker’s words contrasts with the literal meaning (e.g. sarcasm).

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is metonymy?

• a word that is associated with something is used to represent that thing.

• one word applied to two other words forming two pairs, in which one pair expresses a literal meaning and the other pair expresses a figurative meaning

• • a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered.

• • the intended meaning of a speaker’s words contrasts with the literal meaning (e.g. sarcasm).

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4