Rhetorical Devices 1
Who specifically was Dr. King addressing in "Letter From Birmingham Jail"?
Who are several clergyman from Alabama.
Name the Civil Rights activist that tells his story in March.
Who is John Lewis?
Which school did Junior transfer to?
What is Rearden?
a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar
What is a simile
Identify the two kinds of laws that Dr. King speaks about.
What are are "just" and "unjust" laws
Name the term for setting someone or something apart from others including by race.
What is segregation?
Mr. P tells Junior this is located off the reservation.
Hope
Why did Dr. King move from negotiation to direct action after meeting with the Birmingham Economic Council?
What is they removed signs but ultimately put them back; the city of Birmingham had broken several promises.
What important bridge is shown in the prologue of the book?
Edmund Pettus Bridge
What Indian reservations were intended to be, according to Junior.
Death camps
This is sensory description
What is a imagery?
What is the theme or main idea of "Letter From Birmingham Jail"?
What is that African Americans could no longer wait for their rights, they had to have them NOW!
What event is John Lewis preparing to go to when we see him in his office on January 20, 2009?
President Obama’s inauguration
Abuse of this leads to the death of three people in the book.
Alcohol
Giving human characteristics to something not human
What is personification?
Give the name and the acronym of the civil rights group for which Dr, King served as president.
What is the Southern Christian Conference (SCLC)
The way the story keeps going back in time to talk about John Lewis’s childhood is an example of
a flashback
In the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (ATDPTI), Jr. has these two very different reactions to beating Rowdy in basketball.
What is... first being happy and excited, and then being ashamed and crying?
In both "The Crisis" and "Speech at the Virginia Convention" the speakers use slavery as a ________________ to make their points. a. hyperbole b. metaphor c. personification
What is a metaphor?
"Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?" uses this rhetorical device
What is parallelism or anaphora?
Jim Lawson was important to John Lewis because he
showed him the ways of nonviolent protest.
In the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (ATDPTI), Jr learns that his sister Mary has a secret dream to do this.
What is...to write romance novels?
1. to occupy his time while he is waiting to be released from jail 2.to respond to well-intentioned criticism of the civil rights movement 3.to make his argument to everyone who will read the letter after its publication
The three statements represent what about Dr. King?
Why does King write “Letter from Birmingham Jail”?
In John Lewis’ office, the chickens symbolized
his time on his family’s farm.
This was the last thing Junior's grandma said. It is indicative of why Junior loved his grandma so much.
Forgive him.
King describes himself as standing in the middle of two groups of people as a mediator. Who are those people? Name two
Those who are complacent and The black nationalists
To bring people with particular characteristics or needs into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution.
What is integration?
How many funerals had Junior been to?
42
"of the people, by the people, for the people" is an example of this literary/rhetorical device
What is parallelism
In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King cites T. S. Eliot’s observation about doing “the right deed for the wrong reason.” How does Eliot’s observation apply to actions that King describes in his letter? What group can be referenced and what were they doing?
It applies to those Birmingham police officers who use legal, nonviolent means to handle demonstrators in public but do so to maintain the injustice of racial discrimination.
What event caused John Lewis and his friends to organize a march to city hall?
The bombing of Looby's house
Name the significant deaths in the novel in the order they occur (4)
Oscar, Grandmother, Eugene, Mary
Near the end of “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King says, “I have no despair about the future. I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle. . . .” Why does King feels so certain of ultimate victory ?
He believes that he and his followers are stronger than those who oppose them.
Why did John Lewis hide under his family’s porch?
He hid in order to catch the school bus, so he would not have to stay home and work on the farm.
What indigenous tribe is Junior a part of?
the Spokane Indian tribe