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The main character of Lamb to the Slaughter.
Who is Mary?
The rhetorical device Ellison Durant Smith uses in "Shut the Door."
A figure of speech that directly compares two different things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Is this a sentence or a fragment?
Stamps with pictures of famous animals and people.
What is a fragment?
"Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
What is I have a Dream?
What did Dr. King mean by "we've come to cash this check?"
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a rhetorical device centered around the credibility of the writer or sources.
What is ethos?
What changes are needed in the following sentence?
The announcer's voice always irritates my father and I.
"my father and me."
"We must not get our ethnological distinctions mixed up with our anthropological distinctions. It is the breed of the dog in which I am interested."
What is Shut the Door?
The main idea for "Shut the Door."
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a literary device in which the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Identify the adverb in the following sentence.
Columbus apparently also had keen powers of observation.
The name of the cashier in "Lamb to the Slaughter."
Who was Malcolm X writing to?
Elijah Muhummad and the nation of Islam.
statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be scientific and factual but lack supporting evidence and method.
What is pseudoscience?
Identify the complete subject, complete predicate, simple subject, and simple verb of the following sentence.
The islands of Hawaii are actually the peaks of submerged mountans in the Pacific.
"islands of Hawaii" complete subject
"are actually the peaks of submerged mountans in the Pacific" complete predicate
"islands" simple subject
"peaks" simple verb
The author of "Learning to Read."
Who is Malcolm X?
How did Malcolm X read during "lights out?"
"Fortunately, right outside my door was a corridor light that cast a glow into my room. The glow was enough to read by, once my eyes adjusted to it. So when "lights out" came, I would sit on the floor where I could continue reading in that glow."
a rhetorical device where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of consecutive sentences, clauses, or lines.
What is anaphora?
Identify the direct object in the following sentence.
My dad has been giving me cooking lessons since last summer.