Characters
Vocab and Grammar
Voice
Author's Purpose
Miscellaneous
100
Author of the White House Diary.
What is Lady Bird Johnson
100
The word that means emotionally touching
What is poignant
100
In describing what happened, Lady Bird Johnson uses many very short sentences. What feeling do these short sentences convey? 1. surprise 2. happiness 3. anger 4. shock
What is shock
100
Mrs. Johnson's main purpose in this excerpt from "A White House Diary" is: 1. to describe her husband 2. to persuade 3. to make up a story 4. to give information
What is to give information
100
City where President Kennedy was shot.
What is Dallas, Texas
200
President of the United States assassinated in the story.
What is President John F. Kennedy
200
The word that means indirect results
What is implications
200
Which word would describe the author's voice in "A White House Diary"? 1. cool 2. funny 3. serious 4. chatty
What is serious
200
Mrs. Johnson could have added the following to the excerpt to help fulfill her purpose: 1. a persuasive argument about gun control 2. a poem expressing the nation's sorrow 3. an amusing joke her husband once told her 4. an explanation of why the president was in Dallas
What is an explanation of why the president was in Dallas
200
Where Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn as president
What is on a plane- Air Force One
300
The name of the First Lady of the United States before Lady Bird Johnson.
What is Jackie Kennedy
300
I asked the Secret Service if I could be taken to them. They began to lead me up one corridor and down another. How many proper nouns are in the sentence?
What is 2 proper nouns- Secret Service. "I" is a pronoun.
300
What feeling is Mrs. Johnson expressing in this passage from the story: I would have done anything to help her, but there was nothing I could do, so rather quickly I left and went back to the main part of the airplane where everyone was seated. 1. anger 2. helplessness 3. sadness 4. disappointment
What is helplessness
300
One of the following choices is NOT one of Lady Bird Johnson's purpose of the story: 1. to pay tribute to various people 2. to describe her husband 3. to narrate important historical events 4. to persuade others that her husband deserved to be president
What is to persuade others that her husband deserved to be president.
300
True or False: Jackie Kennedy wanted to get out of her blood stained clothes as quickly as possible.
What is False- Lady Bird could not even get her to change out of the bloody clothes.
400
The title Lady Bird was given after her husband because president.
What is First Lady
400
Which of the following is a synonym for tumultuous in the following sentence: my feelings for her were too tumultuous to put into word. 1. unclear 2. loving 3. disturbed 4. friendly
What is disturbed
400
Define voice
What is the way the writer sounds on the page
400
Define author's purpose
What is the author's main purpose for writing
400
Difference between autobiography and biography
What is Autobiography: author writes about their own lives. Biography: author writes about another person's life.
500
The thirty-sixth President of the United States
What is President Lyndon B. Johnson
500
How many common nouns and proper nouns are there in the following sentence: There had been such a gala air about November 22 that I thought noise must come from firecrackers- part of the celebration.
What is common nouns- 4: air, noise, firecrackers, celebration (remember I is a personal pronoun) and 1 proper noun: November
500
Three elements of voice
word choice attitude/tone sentence length and structure
500
Four types of purpose
What is explain, entertain, persuade, inform
500
According to Mrs. Johnson, Jackie Kennedy continued to wear her blood-stained clothes when Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president because: 1. She did not have any other clothes to change into. 2. She wanted people to see what had been done to the president. 3. It was too dangerous for her to change her clothes. 4. The Secret Service asked her not to change her clothes.
What is she wanted people to see what had been done to the president.
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