What is personification?
Giving something that isn't human human-like qualities.
The theme of "The Three Little Pigs" is taking the time to do something right pays off. What happens in the story to show this?
the first two pigs rush through building their houses and they don't last long.
What does it mean to be literal?
taking words in their usual or most basic sense
What is being compared in this simile? "He'd just tuck in the laces until they worked their way up the sides, slowly crawling out like worms from wet soil."
His shoelaces and worms
What is ethos?
appeal to credibility (establishing credibility)
What is a main idea?
what the text is mostly about (as a whole), should be a broad statement
What does it mean to be figurative?
metaphorical, deeper meaning, not literal
Claim: it's nice outside. What's a piece of evidence that supports that?
temperature, looks, etc
What is logos?
appeal to logic (using facts, statistics, stories, examples, logical arguments)
What is theme?
The main message, lesson, or moral.
What is pathos?
appeal to emotion (making audience feel something)
What is this an example of?
The city was alive, full of sounds and smells and voices.
What is a claim?
an argument
What is a simile?
comparing two things using like or as