What type of non-fiction is Gordon Parks’ “Choice of Weapons?”
What is memoir
100
In "R.M.S. Titanic," what does the word ascertain mean in the following quotation? "The captain sent Boxhall and the carpenter below to ascertain the damage."
What is determine.
100
What is diction?
What is word choice
100
What city does "A Choice of Weapons" take place in?
What is Washington, D.C.
100
What is the author’s perspective?
What is how the author feels about the subject.
200
What is a memoir?
What is a type of autobiography which focuses on a specific time or historical event and evokes a powerful mood
200
Based on this quotation in "Typhoid Fever," what does the word internal mean? "Are you and that Madigan girl talking? I'll report you to Sister Rita. There's to be no laughing for you could be doing something serious to your internal apparatus."
What is on the inside
200
What is sentence structure?
What is the complexity or simplicity of the author's writing
200
The inhabitants and visitors of the pond in "High Tide in Tucson" include what?
What is insects, birds, and mammals.
200
What is the author’s purpose in “R.M.S. Titanic?”
What is to present history in an interesting way and to persuade the reader of who is to blame for the sinking of the Titanic.
300
What kind of sources does Doris Kearns Goodwin use in “Team of Rivals”?
What is primary sources
300
What does the word spontaneous mean in these lines from "High Tide in Tucson?" "I can't imagine where all these creatures came from. There is no other permanent water for many miles around. How did they know? What jingle drums told them to come here? Surely there are not, as a matter of course, aquatic creatures dragging themselves by their elbows across the barren desert just in case? I'm tempted to believe in spontaneous generation."
What is automatic
300
What does Kingsolver mean when she describes the hatched dragonfly eggs as "creeping armadas of larvae"?
What is there were many larvae
300
Where did the Titanic ship sail from?
What is Southampton
300
What is the author’s perspective in “A Choice of Weapons?”
What is Gordon Parks is appalled by the discrimination and segregation in the nation's capital
400
What type of non-fiction is Alex Baldwin’s “RMS Titanic?”
What is a historical article
400
What does the word magnanimous mean in these lines from "Team of Rivals?" "The President was inclined to be kind and magnanimous, and his death at this time is an irreparable loss to the South, which now needs so much both his tenderness and magnanimity."
What is honorable
400
"After two days of gentle winter rains, the small pond behind my house is lapping at its banks, content as a well-fed kitten" (499).
What element of figurative language is in this passage?
What is simile
400
What were the key events on the night of April 14, 1865 in "Team of Rivals?"
Booth shot Lincoln, Powell wounded Seward, and Atzerodt abandoned the plan to assassinate Johnson
400
What is Doris Kearns Goodwin's purpose for writing "Team of Rivals?"
What is to present history in an interesting way while staying true to primary sources.
500
What is the difference between an autobiography and memoir?
What is A memoir focuses around a particular aspect of the writer’s life and an autobiography is a broader and more general account of the writer’s life.
500
What does the word exploited mean in these lines from "A Choice of Weapons?
"In their greed and passion for wealth, they had gutted the earth for cotton; overworked the farms; exploited the tenant farmers and sharecroppers who, broken, too to the highways with their families in search of work."
What is selfish
500
In "A Choice of Weapons," what is the overall mood of the scene that takes pace in the department store?
What is tense.
500
According to Seamus in "Typhoid Fever," there is a similarity between what has happened to the highwayman and what has happened to Frankie. What is it?
What is both characters are torn from a beloved female who later dies.
500
What is Frank McCourt's purpose for writing “Typhoid Fever?”
What is to describe his poverty-stricken Irish childhood in a compelling and honest way