Cultural/Historical Contexts
This is the cultural/historical context of The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank and Anne Frank Remembered.
What is the Holocaust?
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is an example of this kind of speech.
What is a persuasive speech?
(or, What is an inspirational speech?)
This is the author of "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This is an assertion made or a position taken about a topic.
What is a claim?
This is a story that combines imagined events and characters with historical characters, events, and settings from a time period prior to one's own.
What is historical fiction?
This is the cultural/historical context of In Search of Honor.
What is the French Revolution?
This literary idea is demonstrated in the following excerpt:
"Let it be thundered around the world, that, in tyrant-killing, king-hating, people-loving, democratic, Christian America, the seats of justice are filled with judges, . . ." (p. 465)
What is connotative language?
(or, What is emotional appeal?)
This is the author of Through My Eyes.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This is a question asked not to receive an answer but to achieve an effect; it is often used to emphasize an obvious point.
What is a rhetorical question?
This is a rewritten version of an author's work that has been changed for reasons such as length or readability.
What is an adaption?
This is the cultural/historical context of Harriet Tubman and "Letter from Frederick Douglass."
What is the Underground Railroad / Civil War era?
This literary idea is demonstrated in the following excerpt:
"What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken?" (p. 464)
What are rhetorical questions?
This is the author of Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Ann Petry?
This is the emotions associated with a word in addition to its dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
This is a story that is usually anonymous and passed along by word of mouth.
What is a folktale?
This is the cultural/historical context of Red Scarf Girl.
What is the Chinese Cultural Revolution?
This literary idea is demonstrated in the following excerpt:
"You declare, before the world, and are understood by the world to declare, that you 'hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that, among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;' . . ." (p. 466)
What is a historical allusion?
This is the author of Red Scarf Girl.
Who is Ji-li Jiang?
This is writing intended to convince the reader to change his mind.
What is an argument?
This is a nonfiction account of the true events that make up the life of a real individual.
What is a biography?
This is the cultural/historical context of Through My Eyes.
What is the Civil Rights Movement / integration of schools?
This literary idea is demonstrated in the following excerpt:
"You profess to believe 'that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth,' and hath commanded all men, everywhere to love one another; . . ." (p. 466)
What is a biblical allusion?
This is the author of The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank.
Who is Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Goslar?
This is wording in a work of literature that creates strong feelings in the audience (or reader) in response to the topic.
What is emotional appeal?
This is written or printed communication, addressed to an individual or a group of people.
What is a letter?