Literature
Who was Frederick Douglass?
An American slave.
What is the first step to deconstruct the writing prompt?
Read through the prompt several times.
What type of figurative language is "The sun kissed me"?
Personification.
What type of poem is "O Captain! My Captain!" ?
An elegy.
Mention one type of text structure.
Chronological order, cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem / solution.
What genre is " From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" ?
An autobiography.
What is a thesis statement?
A sentence that restates the prompt.
What type of figurative language is " My dog is like a tornado."
A simile.
What tone do most elegies have?
A serious tone.
In the autobiography by Frederick Douglass, what text structure is used?
Cause and effect.
In the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" , Abraham Lincoln is compared to
a ship captain.
Where is the thesis statement located?
At the end of the introduction.
Mention three types of figurative language.
Simile, metaphor, and personification.
What is an elegy?
An elegy is a poem in which the speaker reflects on someone’s death.
What is chronological structure?
Chronological structure is the arrangement of events by the order in which they took place.
In the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" , the fearful trip represents
The Civil War.
What shouldn't you include in the thesis statement?
Reasons, evidence, and opinion.
What is a metaphor?
The comparison of two things that does not use like or as.
Who could be the speaker in the poem " Not My Bones" ?
Fortune.
Mention three words writers use to signal the order of events.
For example, before, during, after, and finally.
In the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" , the ship represents
The United States.
What should every thesis statement have?
Topic of the prompt, task of the prompt, and general terms.
What is figurative language?
Words use to communicate something beyond their actual meaning.
Mention three literary devices that poetry uses.
Imagery, figurative language, and repetition.
Which text structure is used in the History Writing " From Fortune's Bones" ?
Chronological structure.