Crazy Characters
In "Unusual Normality," Ishmael Beah comes from a past where he did what?
Being a child soldier in Sierra Leone
When a character reflects on a past event that happened in their lives, it is then told in the story.
Flashback
Ishmael Beah doesn't fully relate to the other boys he meets in the U.S.
Perspective
The main argument in "Is Survival Selfish?"
It can be and often is, but that's not a bad thing.
(Or some variation)
Jem's main character growth throughout To Kill a Mockingbird is best described as what?
Immature to Mature
(Innocent to Adult)
When an author hints at what is to come in the story; it usually builds suspense.
Foreshadowing
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
Perspective/Empathy
After trying to look into the Radley house and being scared off by Mr. Radley, Jem loses this when fleeing the property.
His Pants
In The Leap, the narrator tells the reader that her mother did what three times?
Saved her life
When an author uses specific word choices to create significant meanings and understandings.
Diction
After being saved, from the burning building, by her mother for the final time, the narrator in The Leap learns this valuable lesson.
Gratitude for those who came before us.
The narrator's mother in The Leap almost died in an accident in her circus act due to what?
Lightning striking the Big Tent
A neighbor to the Finch family who served as a role model/mother figure to Scout.
Miss Maudie
When an author uses an irregular amount of syllables in a line of a poem, causing the reader to take irregular pauses for dramatic or emotional effect.
Line breaks
Scout and Jem learn about the African American community when going to the First Purchase Church with Calpurnia.
Tolerance/Perspective
Ishmael Beah surprises his friends in America when he turns out to be good at this sport.
Paintball
What was the narrator's mother's occupation in the flashbacks when she was younger?
An acrobatic circus performer in The Flying Avalons
The three main parts of a body paragraph in an argumentative essay.
"Those who knew what was going on here must make way for those who know little.
And less than little.
And finally as little as nothing."
"The End and the Beginning"
Resilience and Memory; Time heals all wounds
Mayella Ewell was injured on the right side of her face and Tom Robinson's Left Arm was crippled.