Composition
Name and explain the 3 rhetorical appeals
Ethos, Pathos, Logos. Answers will vary
Name the text written by Benjamin Franklin that we read in our sorcery and psychopathy unit.
"A Witch Trial at Mount Holly"
A literary device that can be defined as a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions, or entire behaviors to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena, or objects.
Anthromorphism
Author of "We Real Cool"
Gwendolyn Brooks
Name the text by Judith Sargent Murray that we read.
"On Equality of the Sexes."
What type of format is used in an English class?
MLA Format
Name the text written by Cotton Mather in our sorcery and psychopathy module.
"V. The Trial of Martha Carrier"
This device is a useful plot device for creating situations in which the audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts, and their resolutions before the leading characters or actors.
Dramatic Irony
How long was the narrator of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl hiding in the attic?
7 years
What month is women's history month in the United States?
March
Name the website I refer you to for help with your works cited page.
OWL Purdue
What event was The Crucible written to critique?
The Red Scare
A literary genre pertaining to letters, in which writers use letters, journals, and diary entries in their works, or they tell their stories or deliver messages through a series of letters.
Epistolary
What were the names of the two male opposing black civil rights leaders?
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
Sojourner Truth
Describe a 5 paragraph essay in detail. Parts of the essay, parts of the individuals paragraphs, etc.
Answers will vary.
When did the Salem Witch Trials occur?
1692
A figure of speech and literary device that creates heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Name the famous line from the excerpt from Booker T. Washington that we read.
"Cast down your bucket..."
Define feminism.
Answers will vary
Explain when you should use a comma versus when you should use a semicolon.
Will judge based on answer.
Who wrote the Puritan sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?"
Johnathan Edwards
Is the repetition of grammatical elements in writing and speaking.
Parallelism
What was the theory that W.E.B. Dubois explained in his book The Souls of Black Folk? Explain the theory.
Double-Consciousness. Answers will vary.
What European text is "On Equality of the Sexes" similar too?
A Vindication of Women's Rights by Mary Wollstonecraft