"Homegoing"
Figurative Language
Academic Papers
Poetry
TASOK Facts
100

This was Akua's curse.

What are fire dreams?

100

Ziya the Zombie shows these two figurative language devices.

What are epithet and alliteration?

100

This sentence is the main argument or claim of your paper.

What is a thesis?

100

This 16th century poet was a devotee of Krishna.

Who is Mirabai?

100

This is what TASOK stands for.

What is The American School of Kinshasa?

200

This is the author of "Homegoing".

Who is Yaa Gyasi?

200

This figurative language device continues a sentence from one line of poetry to the next.

What is enjambment?

200

This sentence presents the main idea of a paragraph and is usually the first sentence of the paragraph.

What is a topic sentence?

200

This poet wrote in the 1st Century BC in the Mediterranean.

Who is Sulpicia?

200

This is the year that TASOK was founded.

What is 1961?

300

This is Effia's husband.

Who is James?

300

This figurative language device is used to represent sounds.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

This G shaped letter comes between F and H.

What is G?

300

This form of poetry uses 14 lines and is characterized by iambic pentameter.

What is a sonnet?

300

This is the name of the current director of TASOK.

Who is Ben Marsh?

400

These are the two tribes mentioned in "Homegoing"

Who are the Asante and the Fante?

400

This is how many fingers you have.

What is ten?

400

"As previously stated...", "However...", "Because...", "Similarly...", "For this reason..." are all examples of this.

What is a transition? Transition phrase and transition word will also be accepted. So will English, words, and language.

400

This is the class you are currently in.

What is English Class? SS8 and this classroom will also be accepted.

400

This is the original name of TASOK.

What is TASOL? The American School of Leopoldville will also be accepted.

500

This is who you are.

Who is me? Student, human, person, friend, daughter/son, your name will also be accepted.

500

This figurative language device is an inversion of the normal order of words. It is also known as "Yoda talk".

What is Hyperbaton?

500

These are the steps of writing a literary analysis.

What are prewriting, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading?

500

This style of poetry has nineteen lines, is written in iambic pentameter, and is characterized by a particular repetition scheme.

What is a villanelle?

500

This is Mr. Henderson's favorite day of the year at TASOK.

What is International Day?