Goodbye to My Twinkie Days

Purpose/Audience

100

The kind of thesis the author uses

Implied

200

Does Nguyen assume her readers know a little or a lot about Twinkies based on the text?

What is a little?

300

Humorous, Serious, and Informative tone used by author? (Rank from 1 to 3, most used to least used)

Informative (1) Humorous (2) Serious (3)

500

The author's purpose 

*Junk food & Society*

Style and Structure

100

In what sentence does Nguyen use a colon instead of a comma and a semicolon instead of a period?

Twinkie box cartoon w/ chocolate cupcake sidekick

200

The company the text focuses on

Hostess

300

Is the author's description of Twinkies objective or subjective?

Subjective

400

"The Twinkie, introduced in 1930, was a best-selling treat of the Depression and is still one of the company's top items. The inventor got the idea after seeing baking equipment for strawberry cakes go unused when the fruit was out of season."

Is this description objective or subjective?

Objective

Fill in the Blank

100

"We know it's bad, and that's why....."

We want it

200

"his sidekick is a short, swarthy ___ cupcake"

Chocolate

300

The author describes Twinkies as a......(rhymes with relish)

Relic

500

"Hostess insists that the shelf life is more like __ days"

25 Days

Figurative Speech

100

"But it tasted like memory"

What kind of figurative language is this?

Simile

200

"Twinkies were a ticket to assimilation: the golden cake, more golden than the hair I wished I had"

What kind of figurative language is this?

Metaphor

300

"Michael Pollan would ot approve. Mr. Pollan, I swear that I have not tasted a Twinkie in years, I would not feed them to my kids."

What kind of figurative language/rhetorical device is this?

Allusion

400

"When I opened one, the smell of sugary, fake, buttery-ish vanilla took me back to my elementary school"

What kind of figurative language is this?

Description/Imagery