AcademicVocab
The goal or aim of a piece of writing
purpose
The white ministers have called Dr. King's actions "unwise and ____"
untimely
A comparison using like or as
Simile
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to ____ everywhere"
justice
The narrator of the story
Eve
Brings closure to a paragraph
concluding statement
Dr. King's _____ was to address the critiques of the white clergymen
purpose
The speaker believes poetry can be a source of _______ and comfort
Love
" '_______' has almost always meant 'Never'"
Wait
The _________ discussed the unnaming process all summer before deciding to return their name.
Yaks
Making sentence level changes to a paper - capitalization for example
edit
The purpose of _________ action was to create nonviolent tension to bring about negotiations
direct
“to warm your belly in winter” is a ______
metaphor
Justice too long delayed is justice _____"
denied
Adam didn’t view Eve as his __________ and didn’t pay much attention to her.
equal
involves making major changes to the ideas in your essay
revise
Segregation, police brutality, church bombings are all examples of ___ in Birmingham
injustice
"and let you warm yourself by this fire, rest by this fire, and make you feel ____"
safe
"My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and __________ pressure."
nonviolent
Synonym for irritable
peevish
Type of essay that explains or shows your understanding of a topic
explanatory
According to Dr. King, "one has a moral responsibility to disobey ____ ____"
Why does the speaker offer this poem?
"It is all I have to give"
"Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly ____ city in the United States.
segregated
At the end, Eve
Leaves Adam
Joins the nameless animals