People in America have the freedom to achieve and earn money for themselves and on their own.
What is American Individualism?
100
A story unfolding in regular time order as events occur would be considered this
What is in chronological order
100
I’m going to give you a (piece / peace) of my mind if you don’t stop talking.
Piece
100
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
What is Romanticism and Transcendentalism
100
"Everyone loves DoubleMint Gum!"
What is bandwagon
200
The idea that people of all financial backgrounds and religions are accepted in any class of society.
What is Tolerance
200
The narrator is outside the action in a novel and knows everything that every character thinks, feels, and does.
What is 3rd person omniscient point of view
200
(Your / You’re) not the only one around here who is bored, buster.
You're
200
Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear And Loving Husband" and Benjamin Franklin's Almanac
What is the Colonial Period
200
He (lays / lies) down on the bed when he starts to get a migraine headache.
Lies
300
A story of a family going to California in a wagon in the 1800's to start a new life is an example of this theme.
What is Westward Expansion?
300
I don’t know where Ms.Fowler wanted me to (lay / lie) these handouts.
Lay
300
Whenever (there / their) is trouble, the Lone Ranger appears.
There
300
Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
What is Modernism?
300
"Do you want to win a million dollars?"
What is rhetorical question?
400
Frank McCourt's novel Angela's Ashes details his family's move to NYC from Ireland to live in a building with Jews, Italians, and Asians for the first time in their lives.
What is Cultural Diversity?
400
A story told within a story.
What is frame narrative
400
The governor fell down the steps of the (Capital / Capitol) building in Montgomery.
Capitol
400
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
What is Transcendentalism?
400
"I'm Tiger Woods and Valtrex worked for me!"
What is appeal to authority/ethos/celebrity appeal?
500
The Great Gatsby is about Jay Gatsby: a man who started from nothing and worked hard to earn everything he has.
What is The American Dream?
500
A kind of story that begins in the middle and then the author backs up to tell how the story got to that point.
What is In medias res
500
The song (effected / affected) me so deeply that I wept openly.
Affected
500
Jack London's "To Build a Fire" and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What is Naturalism and Realism
500
"99% of cats surveyed enjoy Friskies canned dinners and love the money it saves their wallets."