List 2: Use each term correctly in a sentence. Come up with an example for each term and explain why/how the example works for that term.
- Denotation: dictionary definition of a word; primary definition
- Ethos: overall disposition or character of an individual; in rhetoric it is validity of an argument
- Figurative language: all forms of words that create images (analogy, allusion, alliteration, etc)
- Free Verse: uses common sense and natural expression; must feel like a poem; plays with expectations of readers and poets; poetry with varying line length that does not need to rhyme
- Gatekeeper: person who guards a gateway or task; sometimes they are part of the villain’s company or sometimes they can become allies or members of the hero’s group
- Hero: puts the well-being of his people above his own safety and from beginning to end, he learns important skills and changes as a person
- Humanism: set of beliefs that focus on activities of mankind – mathematics, naturalism, philosophy, and theology
- Hyperbole: an extreme overstatement
List 3: Use each term correctly in a sentence. Come up with an example for each term and explain why/how the example works for that term.
- Irony: the meaning implied differs dramatically from the meaning expressed
- Metrical Verse: a structure of lines, rhythmic energy, and repetitive sound; meant to be read aloud
- Memoir: the mostly true story of what the author has learned through life
- Mentor: teaches and protects the hero; gives the hero magical gifts to help complete the quest; often tied to nature or religion; could be a failed hero who is trying to help the next generation
- Myth: stories told in pre-literate cultures to explain the universe, mankind’s existence, and how to live in community; a culture's sacred stories
- Objective: the author presents the information or story with a detached tone
- Pathos: passions, sufferings, or feelings of an individual; in rhetoric it is the emotional manipulation used in an argument
- Plot: events and actions in a story and the order they are set to achieve a particular emotional or artistic effect
- Point of View: the way a story gets told; the way an author presents characters ,dialogue, action, setting, and events
List 4: Use each term correctly in a sentence. Come up with an example for each term and explain why/how the example works for that term.
- Prose: writing of various purposes whose lines follow the margins
- Poetry: verse whose purpose is to elicit specific emotion, explore a universal truth, or celebrate something (however small); lines of verse do not follow the margins of a page, especially the right margin
- Rhetoric: a type of discussion whose chief aim is to persuade the audience to think or act in a particular way
- Satire: making a topic or lifestyle look ridiculous through presentation and hyperbole
- Shadow: represents the hidden qualities (inner demons) of the hero; represents the suppressed elements of the other characters – things that seem like weaknesses
- Shapeshifter: can change form, but usually appears to change from good to evil, mean to kind, friend to lover, etc.
- Style: how a speaker or writer uses words to convey a point or message
- Subjective: the author incorporates personal experiences or ideas into the information or story
- Symbol: a word or phrase that signifies something or has a range of reference
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