Literary Terms
These are two types of figurative language.
What are similes, metaphors, and personification. (have 2)
In addition to the financial collapse, this natural disaster struck farms very hard, greatly increasing the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
According to Postman, what role do TV news anchors play?
host
Civil rights activist, he was the author of "I Have a Dream."
What is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The literary term for word choice.
What is diction?
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" is a quote from this speech.
What is "First Inaugural Address"?
According to Neil Postman, the theme songs and short segments hurt this news sources' credibility.
What is the evening TV news?
He was assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are two ways of organizing an essay.
What is chronological, comparison-and-contrast, cause-and-effect? (answer must have 2)
According to "Americans in the Great Depression," these were the people who were able to find the few jobs available during the Depression.
Who are white men?
These are two historical documents Marin Luther King, Jr. referenced in his famous speech.
What are Gettysburg Address, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Brown vs Board of Education, My Country Tis of Thee?
Author of "The News," he was a leading media critic and communications professor.
What is Neil Postman?
The three most common purposes for writing.
What is inform, persuade, and entertain?
What are "sharecroppers"?
Farmers who rent their land by paying the owner a share of their crops.
This kind of expository essay analyzes the relationship between events by showign how one can result from another.
cause and effect
Although he suffered from polio, he was the 32nd President of the United States.
What is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Repetition, parallelism, restatement and questions are all this kind of literary device.
What is rhetorical?
In "Women on the Breadline," where is the author making her observations?
the employment office at the YMCA.
This is a work of nonfiction that presents information, discusses ideas or explains a process.
What is an expository essay?
Journalist Meridal LaSueur went undercover to write this essay.
What is "Women on the Breadlines"?