Electric Boogaloo
Vocabulary
Just Be Yourself
Figurative Language
100

What activity does the author participate in?

Break Dancing

100

huge or great

immense

100

What does the author of "Just Be Yourself?" do to try to find themselves?

Join eighteen clubs in order to "find themselves"

100

What type of figurative language is used here?

"Maybe you will be discovered.

Verbal Irony

200

What anecdote led to the development of the central message in "You are the Electric Boogaloo?"

When the author was humiliated because he got stuck to the floor. 

200

grand, impressive, or beautiful

majestic
200

What anecdote does the author use to deliver the central message?

Joining ROTC in order to "find themselves" 

200

"pants with 46 zippers" is an example of what type of figurative language?

Hyperbole

300

How does the author view his failures in "You are the Electric Boogaloo? 

Humorous

300

many or a lot

numerous

300

"down in the dumps" is what type of figurative language?

Idiom

400
Brief stories, that illustrate their ideas and contribute to the overall tone of a text. 

Anecdote

500

The opposite of hyperbole; deliberate diminishment for effect

Understatement

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