Rhetorical Terms #4

a reference to a well-known person, place, or thing from literature, history, etc. Example: that person has the patience of Job (Biblical reference to Job’s trials.)

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form.

• Allegory

• Anaphora

• Parallelism

• Subjectivity

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data.

• Annotation

• Asyndeton

• Denotation

• Colloquialism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a narrator referred to as “I” who is a character in the story and relates the actions through her/his own perspective, also revealing her/his own thoughts.

• 13. 2nd Person Narrator

• 13. 1st Person Narrator

• 3rd Person Narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

the presentation of two contrasting images.  The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.  Examples: “To be or not to be…” and “Ask not what your country can do for you, as what you can do for your country…”

• Antithesis

• Parallelism

• Anaphora

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

third person narrator, referred to as “she,” “he,” or “they,” who is able to see into each character’s mind and understands all the action.

• third person narrator

• Objective

• Omniscient

• Limited Omniscent

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words.

• Asyndeton

• Colloquialism

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

• third person narrator who reports the thoughts of only one character and generally only what one character sees.

• Omniscient

• 13. Limited Omniscient

• Objective

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

word choice, an element of style; ___ creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning.

• Diction

• Description

• Denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

•  a third person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera; thoughts and feelings are only revealed if a character speaks of them.

• Limited Omniscient

• Omniscient

• Objective

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6