Form and Style
How to Eat a Guava and Secret Latina
Mark Twain
Maya Angelou
Roald Dahl
100
A work that allows the writer give an account of his/her writer's own life
What is an autobiography?
100
The fondness that Santiago expresses in "Guava" concerning her childhood in Puerto Rico is this literary device
What is tone?
100
Samuel Clemens was his real name
Who was Mark Twain?
100
Angelou and her brother were sent south to this state when her parents divorced.
What is Arkansas?
100
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of his most popular stories.
Who was Roald Dahl?
200
Word choice
What is diction?
200
Chambers used this device in the first sentence of her essay to describe her mother.
What is figurative language?
200
In his autobiography, Twain explains that he and his friends wanted most to have this job on the river.
What is a pilot?
200
The terrible circumstances of what particular group of people had a strong affect on Angelou.
Who are southern African-Americans working on cotton plantations?
200
In "Boy," Dahl and his friend's got in trouble for pulling a prank on _________.
Who is Mrs. Prachett?
300
A writer's attitude toward a subject, character, or the audience.
What is tone?
300
In this story, the author describes her memories of eating fruit in another country before coming to the United States.
What is "How to Eat a Guava"?
300
Mark Twain's style of writing usually contains a lot of this particular tone.
What is humor?
300
During the years Angelou spent not speaking Angelou spent time doing this.
What is memorizing poetry and literature?
300
In Dahl's style of writing, you are most likely to encounter a lot of this mood and tone.
What is dark humor?
400
An emotional atmosphere created for the reader
What is mood?
400
In this story, the author writes of her experience of struggling to get in touch with her culture.
What is "The Secret Latina"?
400
This was the man that Twain had an external conflict with in his autobio.
Who is Brown?
400
This woman was on of Angelou's greatest inspirations for her own life.
Who was her grandmother?
400
This was an often repeated theme in Dahl's stories.
What is "beastly people must be punished"?
500
It is revealed through word choice, or diction, and sentence structure and every writer's own unique voice.
What is style?
500
A short informal essay that reveals a lot about the writer's personality and taste.
What is a personal essay?
500
Jealousy of Twain's upbringing resulted in this at the end of the story.
What is Brown being beaten up and thrown off the boat?
500
It is likely that the metaphor in Caged Bird represented this.
Who is Angelou?
500
Dahl's life before he began writing children's stories.
What is a British fighter pilot/writing war stories?
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