Poetry
This poetic device is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
Orwell's book is an allegory of this important global conflict.
What is the Russian Revolution?
The Outsiders is set in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
Hero's Journey narratives end with this stage.
What is the resolution?
Brian Stephenson's Just Mercy is trying to expose this issue to the public.
What is false imprisonment and mass incarceration?
This literary device is an indirect reference to a character, person, event, historical event, or another piece.
What is an allusion?
Old Major, in shaping the ideology of Animal Farm, represents this historical figure.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Ponyboy reads this book aloud to Johnny while they are hiding in the church.
In Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan is helped in the boon stage by this male friend.
Who is Bruno?
George Takei wrote They Called Us Enemy to publish a readable nonfiction text for young people about this issue, which he experienced as a boy.
What is Japanese American incarceration?
This poem type always contains 14 lines, but the rhyme scheme has a defined pattern.
What is a sonnet?
Who is Mollie?
What are sunsets?
We get to know the setting, characters, and character flaws in this stage of the hero's journey.
This is the least biased type of news source.
What is hard news?
What is a slant rhyme?
Napoleon originally rejected the plan to do this but then changed his tune, supporting it.
What is the building of the windmill?
"Nothing Gold Can Stay," a poem by this poet, has special meaning to Ponyboy and Johnny.
Who is Robert Frost?
It is discovered in Ms. Marvel that the person robbing the store is actually this character, Bruno's brother.
Who is Vick?
News sources and articles use this rhetorical technique by building evidence for their claims.
What is logos (appealing to logic, evidence, and reason)?
Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" makes use of many of this figure of speech, where one thing is directly compared to another thing.
What is a simile?
This man acted as mediator between the animals and the outside world.
Who is Mr. Whymper?
This actor starred in the film Ponyboy watched before walking home at the beginning of the novel.
In the Road of Trials, Kamala Khan and her best friend Nakia face discrimination and microaggressions from this character.
Who is Zoe?
What is watch-making?