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Logos, or the appeal to logic, means to appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic. To use logos, the author makes clear, logical connections between ideas, and includes the use of facts and statistics. Using historical and literal analogies to make a logical argument is another strategy.

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Pathos, or the appeal to emotion, means to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel. Authors make deliberate word choices, use meaningful language, and use examples and stories that evoke emotion.

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Ethos, Pathos, & Logos: How to Use Persuasive Ad Techniques

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Ethos (Greek for “character”) • Focuses attention on the writer's or speaker's trustworthiness. • Takes one of two forms: “appeal to character” or “appeal to cr

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Ethos (Greek for “character”) • Focuses attention on the writer's or speaker's trustworthiness. • Takes one of two forms: “appeal to character” or “appeal to credibility.” • A writer may show “ethos” through her tone, such as taking care to show more. than one side of an issue before arguing for her side.

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Rhetoric refers to the study and uses of written, spoken and visual language. It investigates how language is used to organize and maintain social groups, construct meanings and identities, coordinate behavior, mediate power, produce change, and create knowledge.May 26, 2021

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What Is Rhetoric?: Study Hall Writing Composition #10: ASU + Crash Course

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round characters, characters as described by the course of their development in a work of literature. Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. By contrast, round characters are complex and undergo development,…

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What is the difference between a FLAT and ROUND character?

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Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. By contrast, round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.

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Flat Character Design: Illustrator Tutorial

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A dynamic character is a character who undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a story. The development of a dynamic character is often subtle and unstated and is not due to a change in the character's circumstance

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A static character is a type of character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline. Their environment may change, but they retain the same personality and outlook as they had at the beginning of the story. It's common for secondary characters in stories to be static.Sep 29, 2021

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Dynamic vs. Static Characters (why you need both!)

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Indirect characterization is a type of literary device that reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly. Instead of describing a character in a straightforward way, the author shows their traits through that character's actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and how other characters react to them.Jun 2, 2022

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Direct characterization is when an author describes a character in a straightforward manner, as if telling the reader directly.Nov 23, 2021

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Characterization is a name for the methods a writer uses to reveal a character's values, feelings, goals, etc. to readers. When revealing a character's traits, a writer can do so using direct characterization or indirect characterization.

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dramatic irony, a literary device by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.

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In on a secret? That's dramatic irony - Christopher Warner

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Situational irony is the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected

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Situational irony: The opposite of what you think - Christopher Warner

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figure of speach

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whenever a person says something or does something that departs from what they (or we) expect them to say or do.

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is Irony?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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A pun is an intentional rearrangement or selection of words in order to create humor. For example, saying "This vacuum sucks" "Some bunny loves you."

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What are puns? 🤔 | Puns in English | Learn with examples

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An idiom is a figure of speech that means something different than a literal translation of the words would lead one to believe.

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Useful Idioms in 60 minutes (Build your vocabulary!)

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a trite phrase or expression

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.

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Alliteration | Award Winning Alliteration Teaching Video | What is Alliteration?

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the repetition of vowel sounds

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What are Assonance and Consonance?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is an Allusion?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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an appropriate expression used in the place of a phrase or words that may be found inappropriate or offensive

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a rhetorical term that describes words or phrases that, when placed together, create paradoxes or contradictions

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is an Oxymoron?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is Symbolism?": A Literary Guide for English Teachers and Students

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extravagant exaggeration

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Figures of Speech Hyperbole and Irony (Grade 6 Week 1)

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personification is a literary device that uses the non-literal use of language to convey concepts in a relatable way.

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Personification | Award Winning Personification Teaching Video | What is Personification?

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A metaphor is a literary device that figuratively compares and equates two things that are not alike.

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a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

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a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.

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Focussing a third-person narration through the eyes of a single character.

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Any story told in the grammatical third person, i.e. without using "I" or "we

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a little-used technique of narrative in which the action is driven by a character ascribed to the reader, one known as you.

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The telling of a story in the grammatical first person, i.e. from the perspective of an "I,

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First Person Narrative: Examples | What is First Person Narrative? - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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What is first person narrative? Read a first person narrator definition and see first person narrative examples, along with the benefits and...

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the narrator's position in relation to a story being told.

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is Point of View?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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parallelism, in rhetoric, component of literary style in both prose and poetry, in which coordinate ideas are arranged in phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that balance one element with another of equal importance and similar wording.

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Parallelism: Explanation, Effects, Example | AP Lang Rhetorical Strategies

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a literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story

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Foreshadowing: How to Foreshadow in a Novel Effectively & Sneakily

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a scene that takes place before a story begins.

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the emotion the author strives to evoke in the reader

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the stylistic means by which an author conveys his/her attitude(s) in a work of literature.

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denotation: The direct definition of the word that you find in the dictionary. Connotation: The emotional suggestions of a word, that is not literal.

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Explaining Connotation and Denotation with Definitions and Examples

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the set of rules that determines the arrangement of words in a sentence

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the linguistic choices a writer makes to effectively convey an idea, a point of view, or tell a story.

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the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work

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the types of conflicts within literature that occur outside of the main character.

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occurs when a character in literature experiences tension within themselves.

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What is Internal Conflict | Explained in 2 min

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a literary device characterized by a struggle between two opposing forces.

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The protagonist works toward the central story goals, while the antagonist works against the goals

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where a story takes place

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the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax.

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Definition of Resolution

When an author writes a story, she often begins by placing her characters in some sort of predicament. If it's a love story, the predicament might be that the boy and girl love each other, but the boy must go to war. If it's a murder mystery, a body might be discovered in a river, with no one certain how it got there.

Once this struggle in the narrative, or conflict, is established, the story has somewhere to go. The characters can begin trying their best to solve that conflict. Their efforts at doing so and the challenges they face along the way make up the body of the story. And when finally they reach a solution to the predicament, or reach a point where they can go no farther in trying to reach a solution and fail, the story has achieved what's called resolution. Nearly every published story offers resolution of some kind, though more recent literature has tended to favor ambiguous or subtle resolutions over those that solve the conflict too neatly.

Examples of Resolution

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Conflict: In this famous play by perhaps the most famous writer in the history of literature, we meet a prince (Hamlet) whose father has been murdered by his uncle. Because he loved his father and is loyal to him, Hamlet must avenge his father's death by killing that uncle. Unfortunately, he is timid and uncertain, and given to abstract thought. He is not the kind of person who can decisively draw his sword and kill someone.

Resolution: Opportunity after opportunity arises for Hamlet to kill his uncle, and again and again he finds a reason to delay. Finally, though, the uncle hatches a plot to poison Hamlet and succeeds. When Hamlet learns that he himself has been poisoned and will die, he musters the courage and kills his treacherous uncle.

Why is this resolution? This constitutes a full resolution of the plot's central conflict because from the beginning of the play a question hangs over the action (does Hamlet have what it takes to kill his uncle?) and at the end, we get an answer (yes!).

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Conflict: In the acclaimed first novel by American author Ernest Hemingway, we meet Jake Barnes, a young man who, due to a war injury, is unable to engage in sexual relations. Jake is in love with and has that love returned by Lady Brett Ashley, who is addicted to sex. While the two of them love each other very much, their relationship cannot succeed because one thing she needs is the one thing Jake can't give her.

Resolution: At the end of the book, after watching in vain as Brett sleeps with his friends, Jake realizes that the only reason she loves him is because he's never been in a position to disappoint her. In effect, the one thing he thought had kept them apart is the only thing that brings them together.

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resolution in literature: definition & examples - video & lesson transcript | study.com

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Resolution in Literature: Definition & Examples - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax

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turning point in the story.

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the section of a story that leads toward its climax

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the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story

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the structure of interrelated actions, consciously selected and arranged by the author.