The poem, "In Just", creates this mood with words like "and betyandisabel come dancin/from hop-scotch and jump-rope and / it's / spring"
What is happy excitement?
100
This short story we read was unique in that it had no resolution.
What is "The Lady and The Tiger"?
100
"Well, they ain't got no better, leastwise not for colored." This is an example of the author dialogue to show the reader a certain type of language used in this region.
What is dialect?
200
A poem that uses neither rhyme nor meter is called this.
What is free verse?
200
The point of view used the the short story "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" to draw the reader closer to the main character.
What is first person?
200
This is the climax in the short story, "The Glass of Milk"
What is when the boy eats the wafer and drinks the milk even though he knows he cannot pay for it?
300
In the poem, "July", the author uses words like dream, lazy, and lullaby to capture this feeling.
What is the slow and relaxed pace of July?
300
The author of "To Autumn" uses this literary device to give human characteristics to the season of autumn.
What is personification?
300
The lesson the main character learns in "The Piece of String"
What is a reputation for lying causes others not to trust you.
400
This idea is reinforeced by the motif of falling leaves in the poem "Spring and Fall."
What is everything dies eventually?
400
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" uses this form of third person narration to help the reader experience the main character's daydreams more closely.
What is limited third-person
400
Though he seems awkward or bumbling, this main character from a short story we read is a quite different person on the inside.
Who is Walter Mitty?
500
A made-up word in the poem "In Just" that captures the way the world looks an feels at the start of spring.
What is mud-luscious or puddle-wonderful?
500
In the short story "The Piece of String" Hauchecorne's reputation as a deceitful person makes others disbelieve him, even though he is telling the truth. This example demonstrates the author's use of this literary technique.
What is irony?
500
The author advocated respect for the power and wildness of the natural world in this short story we read.