Coming of Age
"Maize Hills Marched" is an example of what?
Personification
"Tobacco Brown Bones" is an example of what figurative language? Hint: Consider the sounds of the sentence.
Alliteration
What is the genre of "The World on the Turtles Back?"
Creation Myth
Tone
An authors attitude towards something
How do you spell my last name?
Garrett
What can you infer about Tisquantum's purpose by giving himself his name when he met the English?
That he wanted to intimidate them.
Figurative language?
"his bones sunk like the golden
treasure he traveled half the earth to find,
came looking for gold cities, for shining streets
of beaten gold to dance on with silk ladies."
Imagery
"Some say she slipped. Some say her husband pushed her..."
This situation is an example of what? Hint: consider problems in interpretation.
Ambiguity
What is an inference?
An educated guess. Like a hypothesis.
What will earn you a 0 on an assignment?
Cheating.
Figurative Language?
"Tucked into the great sweep of Cape Cod Bay, Patuxet sat on a low rise above a small harbor, jigsawed by sandbars and shallow enough that children could walk from the beach hundreds of yards into the water before the waves went above their heads."
Imagery
Infer the author's purpose for developing memory as a theme? What is the theme of memory in the poem?
That memory is alive, active, present.
How do the characters of the twins develop a central theme of the story?
They represent balance and conflict in the world.
If the tone is "informal," what is the tone?
casual, laid-back, use of slang.
Where is 9th period?
room 402.
What can you infer about the author's purpose by including comparison's between the Europeans and Indigenous communities? For example, consider the comparison of diet on page 72.
To show that the indigenous communities were not inferior to their European visitors.
The references in the poem to Desoto and the Blue horse are examples of what figurative language?
Allusion.
What is the (author's) purpose for a story like "World on Turtles back"?
To provide an explanation for why the world is the way that it is.
If a phrase has "academic" tone, what is the tone?
Highly formal, dry writing/speaking.
What is the primary determinant for your grade in my class?
Your sincere and honest effort