Gift of the Magi
Writing Vocabulary
Project Write Members
Rhetorical Devices
Games
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Della's relationship to Jim 

What is a wife? 

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a full story which is much shorter than a novel 

What is a short story? 

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a person named Ashmitha 

Who is Ashmitha? 

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a purpose an author may have for comparing something to something else 

What is describing well? 

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a game in which a tower of wooden blocks is built which is often played at the beginning of Project Write classes 

What is jenga?

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what Della sold to get money to buy her husband a Christmas gift

What is Della's hair? 

2

a writing project which one does because they want to do it

What is a passion project? 

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a person named Yaazhini

Who is Yaazhini? 

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a rhetorical device which compares two things using "like" or "as" 

What is a simile? 
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name of a game in which two or three individuals act out a story and another individual sometimes tells them to change the story 
What is Change? 
3

what Della bought her husband as a Christmas gift 

What is a watch chain? 
3

what horror, adventure, science fiction, and romance all are 

What is a genre? 
3

a person who is writing a passion project about body image

Who is Mridhula? 

3

a rhetorical device which compares two things without using "like" or "as"

What is a metaphor? 
3

name of a game in which someone pretends to be an expert on a topic which someone else chooses 

What is World's Greatest Expert? 

4

how Della feels when Jim arrives home

What is anxious? 

4

the name of a writing exercise in which one continuously writes whatever comes to mind

What is freewriting? 

4
a person who is seven years old 

Who is Joshitha or Smera? 

4

what an antithesis can be used as 

What is a writing "hack"? 

4

a game which teaches about different genres

What is a game in which different groups of people tell different parts of a story in different ways according to different genres? 

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a moral or theme of "Gift of the Magi" 

What is a notion that love is more important than materialistic things? 

5

a moral of a story which can be applied to real life

What is a theme? 
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a person who is in Ravenclaw 

Who is Maaya or Mounisha? 

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a rhetorical device which makes an obvious statement about one thing before making a less obvious statement about an opposite thing 

What is antithesis? 

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a game which teaches about how one can describe things in creative ways 

What is a game in which different groups of people each come up with a way to relate a random word they came up with to another random word which another group chose? 

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