Horror Escape Room: Essential Terms and Devices

Essential Terms and devices

Horror Escape room

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Introduction

"A ghost is trapped in this house, doomed to wander it until it regains all its memories. To help it find them, you must first overcome all the challenges and collect the missing objects in your inventory. Explore the house and try not to gettrapped yourself…"

Explore the house

Inventory

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the emotion of a text as experienced by the reader

mood

prose

point of view

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the speaker's, narrator's, or author's attitude toward the subject, characters, and audience; the emotion of a text as conveyed by the author

theme

tone

point of view

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appealing to character or authority

pathos

logos

ethos

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a brief narrative within a text to capture the audience's attention or to support a generalization of a claim

verse

anecdote

quip

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the social, political, historical (and sometimes personal) situation within which a message is delivered/composed

audience

context

rhetoric

This is not correct...

Find the key to continue

Continue exploring the house

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a comparison of like cases for the purpose of explanation or clarification

analogy

simile

jargon

metaphor

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all parts of an influences on a text (especially an argument); consists of the speaker/ author, the message, the audience, the purpose, and the context

rhetorical situation

message

purpose

analogy

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an arguable statement based on evidence

anaphora

logos

parallelism

claim

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acknowledging that a counterclaim may be valid but continuing to "prove" that the speaker's/author's claim is better

paradox

anithesis

rebuttal/ refutation

antecedent

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the specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group; often meaningless to outsiders

jargon

volta

structure

thesis

You found a secret message

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Remember these notes and play them on the piano in the correct order

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...Keep playing

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...One more

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Start over...

You found a new item for your inventory

Continue exploring the house

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Use the magnifying glass to search for the code and then insert it into the typewriter

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Enter the secret code

Code

appealing to logic or perceived logic

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rhetorical situation

logos

pathos

a proposition put forward for consideration; (in argument) the central claim

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rhetoric

thesis

topic sentence

the intended recipient(s) of a message

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anithesis

context

audience

appealing to emotion

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jargon

ethos

pathos

a reasonable, opposing claim to an argument

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anecdote

counterclaim

rebuttal

A briefcase has appeared...

It's locked...look in the inventory for something to open it

Congratulations

You have recovered all the memories of the ghost! Now it can finally rest and you can escape from the house!

Are you sure you want to exit?

You will lose all progress made so far...

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Exit

Oh, no. You failed...

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