“Good Readers and Good Writers”
Discussion: Small Group Tasks
1. Read back through your section, sharing your HW
annotations and adding further annotations
together 1) meaning and purpose 2) devices
2. Paraphrase Nabokov’s main idea(s) in your passage.
3. Identify one rhetorical element (i.e., diction,
figurative language, analogy, examples, etc.) and
explain its effect.
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to provide logic reasoning, evidence of his ideas(logos)
to establish credibility, trustworthiness, likeability (ethos)
to evoke an emotion in the reader (pathos)
to create a certain tone
4. Discuss your group’s response to Nabokov’s idea
(do you agree, disagree, or qualify?).