ELA Words
This is when you compare something using like or as. For example, "her smile is like the sun."
What is a similie
This middle school teacher's birthday is in the beginning of May
Who is Ms. Dunne
This is one of the two reasons that Ellie gives for the downfall of YBC
What is drill rap and social media
What is Haiti
This is another word for sarcasm or saying the opposite of what you mean.
What is verbal irony?
This is when the reader knows something that the character does not
What is dramatic irony
Who is Zahiyah
This means doing a bad thing out in the open
What is brazen
This island is the original home of Mr. Macyk
What is Long Island
This is when you convince people to agree with you because "everyone is doing it."
What is bandwagon appeal?
This is when the author paints a picture in the reader's head.
What is imagery?
It was a cold winter in 2010 when these two eighth graders are born on back to back days in early December
Who are Jaheim and Ibby
This journalist's job is to cover crime in Philadelphia and so she writes often about gangs.
Who is Ellie Rushing
This island, which is the most populous of New York City, is the birthplace of Ms. Dunne
What is Manhattan
This is a narrator that knows every character's thoughts.
What is an omnisicient narrator?
What is alliteration?
This is the next birthday for the 8th grade class
Who is Dasaun?
This color word is when the banks enclosed certain black neighborhoods and chose not to invest in them
What is red lining?
400 years ago this European country colonized the Bahamas and Jamaica. (Hint it is also colonized the United States)
What is Great Britain
This is the definition of cumbersome.
What is unwieldy or difficult to carry?
BOOM, SPLASH, KABOOM, and other words that mean what they sound like are examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia.
This 8th grader is usually at the front of the line, but his birthday actually falls at the end of the year, on November 14
Who is Jamal
This word that (sort of) rhymes with terrific means you have done a lot of something.
What is prolific?
This island, that one of your classmates was born on, is a commonwealth of the United States
What is Puerto Rico
This is the beginning of the story when you get exposed to characters and setting before the conflict begins.
What is exposition?