Poetry & Empowerment
This term means having the power and confidence to take control of your own life and make decisions.
What is empowerment?
In 'she doesn't know the answer,' the word 'she' is this part of speech.
What is a subject (pronoun)?
In The Giver, the community claims to have achieved 'Sameness' as a form of this, the opposite of a dystopia.
What is a utopia?
In persuasive writing, this acronym helps writers structure body paragraphs: Topic sentence, Evidence, eXplain, Analysis, Summary.
What is TEXAS?
Fever 1793 is set during this real historical epidemic that struck Philadelphia and killed thousands.
What is the yellow fever epidemic of 1793?
A biography is written about someone by another person, while this type of writing is a life story written by the subject themselves.
What is an autobiography?
The time, place, and circumstances in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This figurative language device gives human qualities to non-human things, like 'the wind whispered through the trees.'
What is personification?
A photo essay, a speech, and an editorial all share this purpose: they are designed to do this to the audience.
What is to persuade?
This connection type asks you to link the text to your own personal experiences or feelings.
What is a text-to-self connection?
In the poem 'Oranges,' the boy's act of buying the girl chocolate with an orange represents this broader theme.
What is young love / coming of age / empowerment?
These words sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, like 'there,' 'their,' and 'they're.'
What are homonyms (homophones)?
In The Giver, this is Jonas' official assignment.
What is the Receiver of Memory?
In the Wizard of Oz, why are Dorothy's (Wicked Witch of the East) shoes red?
To bring attention to them with new film technology (Technicolour) but also could represent danger, attraction, love, etc.
In Fever 1793, the phrase 'death was everywhere' is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole or personification?
This type of poem does not follow a strict rhyme scheme or meter, allowing the poet to write freely.
What is free verse?
This narrative element refers to the perspective from which a story is told, such as first person or third person.
What is point of view?
Both The Giver and The Truman Show share this theme: an individual discovers the truth about a controlled society and chooses to break free.
What is the theme of freedom / individual vs. society / truth vs. illusion?
This rhetorical device/appeal refers to how the speaker uses emotion to connect with and move the audience.
What is pathos (emotional appeal)?
Fever 1793 can be connected to this modern global event because both involve a deadly disease spreading rapidly, causing fear and social disruption.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic? Black Plague? Spanish Flu?
In 'The Self Unseeing,' the speaker looks back on a past moment and reflects on how they failed to notice this.
What is the beauty/joy of the present moment/childhood?
When writing dialogue, this punctuation mark is used to show the exact words a character speaks.
What are quotation marks?
This is an element of dystopia when the government or community are always watching what you do and in a way controlling your actions/behaviour.
What is constant surveillance?
A universal theme is one that applies across time, culture, and texts. Identify one universal theme shared by both Mars Patel and The Wizard of Oz.
What is courage / friendship / self-belief / finding home / identity?
Both Fever 1793 and The Giver explore this common theme: a young person must develop this quality when facing a dangerous and unstable world.
What is resilience / courage / coming of age?