Literary Analysis
Acronyms
Poetry
Non-fiction Text/Expository
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
100
You can use this tool to help you to explain the meaning of a quotation.
What is an analysis web?
100
This is an acronym for use with students so teachers don't have write To Kill a Mockingbird hundreds of times during the reading of that novel.
What is TKAM?
100
This is the literary device used in "Once upon a upon a midnight DREARY, while I pondered weak and WEARY"
What is rhyme?
100
The purpose of this genre of writing is to present an argument on a controversial issue.
What is an opinion editorial (an op ed)? Acceptable - persuasive writing
100
This is what Scout was dressed as for the Halloween Pageant.
What is a ham?
200
This is the part of your essay that responds to a given prompt.
What is the thesis?
200
This acronym can assist any reader in comprehending a non-fiction text.
What is M.E.N.D?
200
This is an ancient Japanese poetic form with 17 syllables.
What is haiku?
200
This is the author's attitude towards his/her topic.
What is the author's tone?
200
This man is the patriarch of the whole Finch family.
Who is Simon Finch?
300
This tool can be used by a writer to organize his/her entire analytical essay.
What is an outline?
300
This acronym will help a writer of an analytical essay to identify the tools used for characterization.
What is W.A.L.T.?
300
This is like lyric poetry, but shows feelings of social alienation, raw and uncensored.
What is urban rap?
300
This is where most people read their daily (print) expository writing.
What is the newspaper?
300
This is the literary device used in the title.
What is a metaphor (for killing Tom Robinson)?
400
Also used in court proceedings, you would need this element in an essay in order to prove your thesis.
What is the evidence?
400
This acronym will help any writer to focus his/her writing efforts.
What is P.A.S.S.
400
This poem by Langston Hughes describes what happens to a dream deferred.
What is Harlem?
400
This genre of writing often requires an inverted pyramid structure.
What is feature article/newspaper writing?
400
This is what Atticus explains is "real courage," and what it is not.
What is beginning something even though you know that you're licked before you begin, and it's NOT a man with a gun in his hand?
500
This sentence is the "thesis statement" for a support/body paragraph.
What is the topic sentence.
500
T.O.S.
What is Treatment, Organization, and Scope?
500
This is a form of poetry that satirizes the death of something insignificant.
What is mock elegy?
500
This is the lens through which a writer decides how deeply he/she will research and report on a topic.
What is scope?
500
This is the most prominent message/theme that Harper Lee promotes in her novel.
What is: It's important to step into someone else's shoes and see things from his/her point of view?
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