Grammar
The name of this punctuation, often used to connect two independent clauses: ;
This is the name of the main character who walks across Sudan in search of safety.
Who is Salva?
The author of our text, Patient Zero.
Who is Marilee Peters?
This author wrote our anchor text, One Last Word.
Who is Nikki Grimes?
This technique refers to using a word over and over again.
What is repetition?
This type of clause can stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
This character must walk for hours each day to collect water for her family.
Who is Nya?
This disease, spread by contaminated water, caused a deadly outbreak in London.
What is cholera?
This poetic technique utilizes one line from a famous poem to create a new poem.
What is the golden shovel technique?
A type of figurative language comparing two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The conjunction in this sentence: "I wanted to go outside, but it started raining."
What is "but"?
Salva belongs to this tribe in Sudan.
What is the Dinka tribe?
This doctor used mapping to trace the source of London's cholera outbreak.
Who is John Snow?
A work of art or an idea from the current time is often referred to as this.
What is contemporary?
When an author gives human qualities to a nonhuman thing, they are using this figurative language.
What is personification?
The type of sentence created when two independent clauses are joined with a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
After years of hardship, Salva helps build these in Sudan.
What are wells?
This term describes the first identified person in an outbreak.
What is patient zero?
In her poem "Hope," Georgia Douglas Johnson speaks to children dethroned by a __________.
What is hue?
This literary term refers to the deeper message or lesson about life that a poem or text communicates.
What is theme?
The subordinate conjunction in this sentence: "Although Salva was exhausted, he continued walking."
What is "although"?
This habit of character is shown when Salva focuses on taking "one step at a time" during difficult journeys.
What is perseverance?
John Snow's investigation led him to identify this location as the source of the cholera outbreak.
What is the Broad Street pump?
This literary device refers to a famous person, place, event, story, or work of literature that the author expects readers to recognize.
What is an allusion?
Two consecutive lines of poetry that end with words that rhyme.
What is a rhyming couplet?