This is the difference between a memoir and an autobiography.
What is 'a memoir is a specific memory?'
100
This is the difference between Simile and Metaphor.
What is the use of Like or As?
100
Poetry that is performed live, rather than read silently by an individual.
What is Spoken Word Poetry?
100
This was a revolutionary, self-defense group founded in Oakland, California to protect local communities.
Who are The Black Panthers?
100
This perspective uses words like I, Me, My, Us, We, etc.
What is First Person?
200
This part of the memoir draws the audience in.
What is the Hook or Introduction?
200
This is the creation of words to imitate natural sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
200
This type of poetry requires no rhyme scheme or structure.
What is Free Verse?
200
These armed, usually nonviolent groups followed police in Oakland to deter police brutality.
What are Pig Patrols?
200
This perspective uses words like He, She, They, Them, Those, etc.
What is Third Person?
300
This part of the memoir tells the reader what you learned from the experience.
What is the Conclusion or So What? Factor?
300
This is the assigning of human attributes to inanimate objects.
What is Personification?
300
This type of group poetry combines several separate, distinct stories concerning the same subject matter.
What is Clothesline?
300
This leader persuaded people to support civil rights by referring to "humanity," rather than "black vs. white."
Who is Bobby Seale?
300
This person's birthday is observed on the third Monday of every January.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
400
Memoirs are written from this perspective.
What is First Person?
400
This is an excessive exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
400
This type of group poetry uses multiple poets to tell one logical, cohesive story.
What is Ladder?
400
This person co-founded the Black Panthers and started self-defense movement against police brutality.
Who is Huey Newton?
400
Correctly punctuate the following dialogue,
Ms. Rosenfield said If you take notes, you'll pass the test
What is Ms. Rosenfield said, "If you take notes, you'll pass the test,"
500
This part of the memoir is represented by conversation.
What is Dialogue?
500
The type of figurative language represented by this sentence: “There was a curious tension in the air, like the oppressive sense of heat before thunder.”
What is Simile?
500
The poem entitled "Gun" used this type of figurative language to demonstrate the perspective of a gun, rather than a shooter.
What is Personification?
500
This civil rights leader helped register African Americans to vote and led the Freedom Riders.
Who is Mario Savio?
500
Correctly punctuate the following dialogue:
We don't have school on Monday Ms. Boberschmidt told the class gleefully.
What is "We don't have school on Monday!" Ms. Boberschmidt told the class gleefully.