American Voices
What is "A Quilt of a Country?"
The statements of experts on a topic
What are appeals to authority?
The wind whistled through the dark green pines.
What is sight/sound?
A single independent clause
What is a simple sentence?
What is the setting?
The setting of "American History"
Words with strong positive or negative associations
What is charged language?
Her warm kitchen misted our cold faces with steam, tinged with garlic.
What is touch/smell?
The number of independent clauses in the following sentence: Poetry is beautiful, but sometimes it can be difficult to understand.
What is 2 independent clauses?
Events that follow the climax and reduce excitement or tension
What is the falling action?
The 35th president of the United States
Statements intended to affect the reader's feelings about a subject
What are appeals to emotion?
Salsa! Pungent, salty, oniony, green-hot!
One independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
What is a complex sentence?
A character's struggle with his or her own feelings or beliefs
What is internal conflict?
A group of people that differs in some way from the larger population
What is a minority?
Logical arguments based on verifiable evidence, such as facts or data
What are appeals to reason?
She swathed herself in the warmth of a worn blue blanket.
What is touch/sight?
Has a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as a complete thought
What is a dependent clause?
Establishes the setting, characters, and situation of a narrative
What is the exposition?
November 22, 1963
The day of President John F. Kennedy's assassination
We need to revise the school library budget so students can access the technology they need in order to learn.
The buzz saw screeched and whined as it bit through the wood.
What is sound/sight?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So
What are coordinating conjunctions?
A scene that interrupts a story to describe an earlier event and shows something about a character's past
What is a flashback?