January 13 take two

rhetorical question

• The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.

• figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer

• Word choice, particularly as an element of style.

• The associations suggested by a word. Implied meaning rather than literal meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Diction

• when the opposite of what is expected happens

• This is a tone word that describes a work that is preachy or condescending.

• Word choice, particularly as an element of style.

• Yvonne's friends abandoning her on a hijacked plane

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

antecedent

• when the opposite of what is expected happens

• a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

• The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.

• This is a tone word that describes a work that is very mean and nasty

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Juxtaposition

• The number of Yvonne's friends, or the number 0.

• A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.

• This is a tone word that describes a work that is very mean and nasty

• Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

caustic

• This is a tone word that describes a work that is very mean and nasty.

• Yvonne's personality

• a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

• This is a tone word that describes a work that is preachy or condescending

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

anaphora

• a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

• This is a tone word that describes a work that is preachy or condescending

• two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

• repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

parallelism

• any indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can also be a historical event, song or other cultural "thing") with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.

• Sentence structure which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical ideas.

• The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.

• A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1A

The example of assassinating Hitler in the essay, "The Case for Torture," is an example of a/an

• Yvonne

• anecdote

• anaphora

• allusion

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," is an example of a/an

• parallelism

• connotation

• colloquial

• antecedent

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

In the sentence, "Yvonne is really quite annoying in class; I mean the way she tries to help her classmates and do her work is just awful," which word is the antecedent for she?

• class

• classmates

• Yvonne

• work

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4