Parts of Speech
Fill in the Blank
Struggle to Be an All-American Girl
Literature Terms
Potpourri
100
sea lion
What is a noun?
100
Sarah found the classes extremely boring and _______________.
What is pedestrian?
100
How did the author feel about her Chinese school.
What is negative? She didn't like it.
100
sequence of events in a story or piece of literature
What is plot?
100
resolution
What is closing of story in which we find out how the conflict has been resolved?
200
look
What is a verb?
200
The angry man had to be ____________________ removed, as he could not be calmed down.
What is forcibly?
200
the smell of French perfume
What is the scent of her teacher at her American school?
200
main problem or struggle
What is conflict?
300
dirty
What is an adjective?
300
In order to save her grades, Anna had to ___________________ herself from her group of friends who had no interest in school success.
What is disassociate?
300
The point of view from which this essay is told.
What is first person point of view?
300
time and place in which the story takes place
What is setting?
300
His humor was too ________________ and crude for my taste.
What is raunchy?
400
slowly
What is an adverb?
400
The _______________________ teenager was grounded once his parents found that he had snuck out of the house.
What is defiant?
400
genre of literature that this essay falls under
What is autobiography or nonfiction?
400
the overall atmosphere or tone of the story
What is mood?
400
overall mood of the essay "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl"
What is defiant; torn between 2 cultures; embarrassed;
500
of
What is a preposition?
500
The push was ___________________, so the player was given a technical foul.
What is blatant?
500
internal struggle; woman versus herself
What is the conflict/theme of the essay?
500
part of the story where the reader is introduced to the setting, characters, and conflict
What is exposition?
500
climax
What is the point at which we learn the outcome of the story's main conflict
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