Grammarly
Which sentence by Allen Ginsburg is properly punctuated? Explain.
A. "America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
B. "America I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
C. "America, I've given you all, and now I'm nothing."
What is "C. "America, I've given you all, and now I'm nothing."
Man, do I have a story to tell.
Often, to get a point across, speakers use [blank] to relate a relevant episode or story to develop an argument or inject humor.
What is "anecdote"?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Why is one kind of love any different?
What's life for?
[Blank] asks too many questions with not enough answers.
"What is "rhetorical questions"?
This musician is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.
Kendrick Lamar uses [blank] to refer to [blank] as a means to justify his reckless and gratuitous spending in front of the county building.
What is "Allusion"?
Who is "John Coltrane"?
From the French meaning "setting the stage," [blank] refers to the composition of components on a page, stage, or screen.
What is mise-en-scene?
This device shares a near homonym with former vice president Al Gore’s name.
Similarly, a South Park episode uses a creature called ManBearPig as a(n) [blank] — a text which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning — for global warming, trying to satirize people out of their caves.
What is ”allegory”?
Which sentence by Nicole Krauss is properly punctuated?
A. "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.“
B. "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
C. "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter, was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering"
What is "A. "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
To the store went Ana for a...
To the bank went Ana for a...
To the moon went Ana for a...
[Blank] refers to the repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences helps a speaker create pacing, accumulation, and coherence.
What is "anaphora"?
If you think it’s a sin to tax, you might write a long, winding sentence to prove your point.
Similarly, if you think the truth is self-evident, your sentence might be short.
[Blank] focuses on the grammatical arrangement of words.
What is “syntax”?
In the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie portrays the lives of Native Americans as being too ruff.
Alexie uses this [blank] — an extended comparison between two things — to compare Junior to [blank].
What is "Analogy"?
Who is "Oscar"?
Up the hill and down again. Off to war and back again. Off to work and back again. The laundry spins and spins.
Much of contemporary literature deals with the meaningless of life?
To call something meaningless is to compare them to this tragic Greek character.
Who is "Sisyphus"?
Circles. Cookies. Taxes. Umbrella. Mirrors. Laundry. Everything goes round and round.
If once is an accident, and twice is a coincidence, then the repetition of an object, pattern, or idea is a [blank].
What is a "motif"?
Properly grammaticize Toni Morrison's following sentence.
The pieces I am she gathered them and gave them back to me in all the right order
What is "comma after am and period after order"?
"The pieces I am, she gathered them and gave them back to me in all the right order."
Distract, Attract, Subtract, train track...
[Blank] means to exist as a thought or idea but not having physical or concrete existence, dealing with ideas rather than events.
What is "abstract"?
Some authors penned with anger, scribed with rage, sat with ire.
In Captain Fantastic, director Matt Ross uses [blank] to criticize contemporary educational, economical, and religious institutions.
What is "satire"?
** Daily Double **
This Drama Desk Award-winning playwright chronicles the life of an impoverished Chicago family as they face the pressures of poverty and segregation while chasing the American Dream in the classic play.
Because of their general affordability, like Hughes' raisins, this playwright uses eggs as a [blank] for poverty.
Who is "Lorraine Hansberry in A Raisin in the Sun"?
What is "symbolism"?
If Emily means garden, then Cash is its…
If Sen means 1/1000, then Chihiro is its...
Not only done through juxtaposition, authors use [antithesis] to rhetorically contrast of ideas.
What is “antithesis”?
A place where one buys snacks at a game, this rhetorical approach yields a small victory to the opposition to win the larger argument.
What is a “concession”?
** Daily Double **
Properly grammaticize Bram Stoker's following sentence:
"there are darknesses in life and there are lights and you are one of the lights the light of all lights"
What is "capitalize t, comma after life, comma after lights, comma after lights."?
"There are darknesses in life, and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
Junior is Oscar
Lady Bird is Marion
Akin to moving in non-intersecting lines, authors use [blank] to situate two similar objects side-by-side, creating or magnifying an underlying idea.
What is "parallelism?"
Adult children, cruel kindness, Emily Cash...
Although this device sounds like an insult, [blank] refers to the grouping together of contradictory terms to suggest a paradox.
What is “oxymoron”?
Man, this poet had some wit.
[Blank] often utilized [blank] — the listing of objects, ideas, symbols, et cetera — going on and on in his attempt to capture the complexity of American identity.
Who is "Walt Whitman"?
What is a "catalogue"?
Whereas EEAAO splits Evelyn's face through the imagery of breaking glass, Jarhead uses the manipulation of black-and-white to show Anthony Swofford's conflict: distance, purpose, meaninglessness.
In art and imagery, [blank] refers to the use of strong compositional contrast between light and dark.
What is "chiaroscuro"?
Jarheads' [blank] — diction used by a group which practices a similar profession — are often seen as crass, rude, offensive. However, as Tim O'Brien notes, Jarheads used "a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness."
What is "jargon"?
Properly grammaticize Raymond Carver's sentence from "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."
"i could hear the human noise we sat there making not one of us moving not even when the room went dark"
What is "capitalize i, comma after making, comma after moving."
"I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark."
At the beginning of good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar injects a voicemail from his parents.
Although Lamar initially present his parents as brash, through this use of [blank] — the use of informal or everyday speech — Lamar later subverts the stereotype of urban parenthood.
What is "colloquialism?"
“… this is how you iron your father’s khaki shirt so that it doesn’t have a crease; this is how you iron your father’s khaki pants so that they don’t have a crease…”
Although she presents the mother as uncaring, in “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, she uses [blank] – the discrepancy between expectation and reality — to show how female agency grows within boundaries.
What is “irony”?
Kendrick Lamar [blank] his dream to [blank], contrasting money and power against equality and freedom.
What is "juxtaposes / juxtaposition"?
Who is MLK?
Akin to birds of a feather, Billie Eilish uses [blank] — a reference to something outside the text — in her song [blank] to talk about the "thousand of possibilities" of love.
What is "allusion"?
What is "Chihiro"?
Final Jeopardy. You may wager up to how many points you have.
Spell my last name.
What is "R-E-S-U-R-R-E-C-C-I-O-N"?