Grammar
What type of sentence is the following:
Faith jumped over the crack, and Carina walked around it.
A. Simple
B. Compound
C. Complex
D. Compound Complex
Compound
At which 2 Bay Area Universities did the Third World Liberation Front take place?
UC Berkeley and SF State
Name the subject of the following quote:
“She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!”
Janie Crawford
Name the literary device:
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep"
simile
What musical artist does Ms. Carina listen to the most?
Taylor Swift
Identify the subject, verb, and the full predicate of the following sentence:
Ms. Sanchez ate the sweet potato.
Subject: Ms. Sanchez
Verb: ate
Full Predicate: ate the sweet potato.
Describe the difference between race, ethnicity, and nationality.
Race: socially constructed categories that divide people based on visual appearance (Ex: Black, Asian, White, etc).
Ethnicity: the specific culture or heritage that a person is born into (Bengali, Mexican, Cherokee, Ghanaian, etc.)
Nationality: the country where a person holds citizenship (American, Canadian, British, South African, etc.)
Name the speaker of the following quote:
"In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."
Esperanza
Name the literary device:
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
metaphor
Other than California, what other state has Ms. Carina lived in?
New York
Define an adverb and give an example.
Examples: quickly, yesterday, fiercely, very, here, often
Name the 4 I's of Oppression
Ideological, Institutional, Interpersonal, Internalized
Name the speaker of the following quote:
“It embarrassed me whenever my mom or my dad trumped me (although it was never on purpose) with how thoughtful they were, and by comparison, how thoughtless and selfish I had been in only thinking of myself when it seemed like every second of every day my parents were planning to undergo yet another sacrifice to make our lives that much better, and no matter how diligently I tried to keep up, there was always so much that was indiscernible…There were so many days when I came home to an empty house with nothing at all to distract me except an oozy desire to come up all the ways I could possibly sacrifice enough to catch up to my parents, who were always sacrificing.”
Christina
Name the literary device:
She has the wit of Athena.
allusion: mythological
What ethnicity is Ms. Carina/Where did her parents immigrate from?
Chinese/Hong Kong
Fix the fragment:
While Ms. Gelormino sang the song.
Ms. Gelormino sang the song.
OR
While Ms. Gelormino sang the song, (independent clause).
Push factor: a reason why someone leaves their home country (violence, political instability, lack of economic opportunity, natural disasters)
Pull factor: a reason why someone is attracted to another country (education, economic opportunity, family reunification, human rights)
Name the speaker or the subject of the quote:
“On the following morning I took my revenge upon the devil. Stealing into the room where a wall of shelves was filled with books, I drew forth The Stories of the Bible. With a broken slate pencil I carried in my apron pocket, I began scratching out his wicked eyes. A few moments later, when I was ready to leave the room, there was a ragged hole in the page where the picture of the devil had once been.”
Name the rhetorical device:
"Native Americans, especially women, are frequently victims of violence. A study from the National Institute of Justice concluded that more than 84% of American Indian and Native Alaskan women have experienced violence in their lifetimes."
Logos: appealing to logic
When is Ms. Carina's birthday?
November 19
Fix the following run on sentence:
Samara went to the park to have a picnic since it stopped raining and Carina joined her.
Samara went to the park to have a picnic, since it stopped raining. Carina joined her.
What is the word that describes the overlapping and inseparable identities (gender, race, sexuality, ability, religion, etc.) that each person has which creates a unique individual experience?
intersectionality
Name the speaker or the subject of the quote:
“...she wanted to tell him how good she felt but didn’t know how to build the house of words she could invite him into…build rooms as big as barns.”
Estrella
Name the rhetorical device:
As an English teacher, I can confidently say that this is one of the best essays I have ever read.
Ethos: credibility
What college did Ms. Carina graduate from?
Vassar College