A stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.
What is a torrent?
100
The autobiography is described almost too specifically to say that it is based from facts.
What is one reason someone may think that Barrio Boys is a fiction?
100
Pictures
What are images?
100
Attitude of a writer toward a subject of an audience.
What is tone?
200
We look for a biography about that person.
Which type of prose do you look for when you want to know about a person’s life?
200
External conflicts between two or more people; fights; matches; contests
What do bouts mean?
200
pg 503 “The main reason…..that she was with us.” This statement is impossible to be classified in true or false; it contains a character’s personal feelings.
Is this statement a fact or an opinion?
200
A group of lines forming a unit in a poem; a verse.
Musingly or dreaming thoughtfully just like the sculpture, “The Thinker.”
What does pensively mean?
300
It is an insulting term for “foreigner” in Latin America.
What does gringo mean?
300
A unique characteristic of poetry that poetry readers can apply into techniques for memorizing and reciting poems.
What is a rhyme? / What is a rhythm?
300
If my father were alive, he would play his accordion and sway like a boat.
What are some example sentences of simile?
400
Check out the number of pages. Five to twenty pages, that is a short story. A hundred or more, it’s a novel. Between them, it’s a novella.
How do you tell the difference between a short story, a novella, and a novel?
400
What I heard was a great, wild applause from the hysterical audience although I made few mistakes while presenting.
What does frenzied mean?
400
pg 503 “My pals...Americans.”
Give an example sentence that shows the diversity of the Lincoln School.
400
Language that helps make startling connections between dissimilar things.
What are figures of speech?
400
An arrangement of a certain number of lines
What does stanza mean?
500
The meaning of a story. It points to what the main characters learn in the story and to what people learn as they share their experiences.
What is a theme?
500
The main character in the story usually does when he/she has internal conflict in the beginning of the story, especially when he/she thinks his/her internal conflict is a disturbance; to get rid of something; to cause to vanish
What does dispel mean?
500
It means awe-inspiring and impressive.
What does formidable mean?
500
Rules that poets use; vary from strict to freer, experimental forms and are for giving the words a pleasing shape on the page and helping convey meaning.