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Time TravelPathos, Ethos, or Logos? Go Figure! Point of View

Row 1, Col 1 A religious belief which included Original Sin and predestination. What is Puritanism?

1,2 Writers of this era emphasized emotion over reason. What is Romanticism?

1,3 Writers of this literary period preferred portraying things as they actually were more than things as they might be. What is realism?

1,4 Writers who wrote in this vein had a grim view of life, as battle with natural forces out to get us. What is naturalism?

1,5 Writers of this subset of this literary period looked to nature as an escape and source of Divine truth. What is transcendentalism in Romanticism?

2,1 When Abigail stops Mary Warren from exposing her as a fraud by leading the girls in accusations that she’s enchanting them. What is pathos?

2,2 When Abigail runs away just as her word is beginning to get questioned in the courts, one can only assume that she wasn’t telling the truth, destroying this element in her argument. What is ethos?

2,3 When you study and ace a test, you conclude that studying pays off. This line of argument creates this. What is logos?

2,4 If a person argues against slavery by providing horrifying details of the suffering experienced under its institution, they are using this. What is pathos?

2,5 When someone arguing about the need to make laws prohibiting drinking and driving talks about their own knowledge because of their visits with families who have lost loved ones in drunk driving incidents, it gives them this. What is ethos?

3,1 What is first-person? Since the story about how Frederick Douglass stood up to Mr. Covey is narrated from his own personal perspective, it can be said to be written from this point of view.

3,2 Jonathan Edwards talks to directly to us about how we are hanging on a string over a devouring flames below and only God’s mercy keeps us from falling, using this point of view. What is second-person?

3,3 The story of Coyote, the Native American trickster, is told by someone not involved in the actual events, which means it is narrated through this point of view. What is third-person?

3,4 What is dramatic irony? Our point of view becomes important when this is used as we know that Elizabeth should not protect her husband from people knowing about his adultery.

3, 5 This term has to do with the attitude the writer has towards his/her subject. What is tone?

4,1 The great black forest—stern as it showed itself to those who brought the guilt and troubles of the world into its bosom— became the playmate of the lonely infant, as well as it knew how. What is personification?

4,2 “The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given; and the longer the stream is stopped, the more rapid and mighty is its course…” What is a simile?

4,3 “…poor little Pearl was a demon offspring” What is a metaphor?

4,4 “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire…” What is a simile?

4,5 In addition to simile, this quote utilizes this figure of speech: “Arthur Dimmesdale put forth his hand, chill as death…” What is hyperbole?