Literary Devices
Sentence Structure
Author’s Background
Author’s Style
100

What Literary Device is presented in the quote?


"I'm lucky. I'm grateful. I'm the smartest in my class."

Anaphora

100

What type of sentence structure is presented in the quote below?

“I’ve been moving back and forth between Europe and America”

Simple Sentence

100

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100

What sentence type is this quote below?


"FINALLY, I AM AMERICAN!"

Exclamatory Sentence

200

What Literary Device is presented in this quote?

"We were fishermen on a plastic boat in the middle of the sea. We were children who had fallen into the cracks of the world."

Imagery

200

What type of sentence structure is presented in the quote below?

"Eventually we returned to Iran, and I was put under a headscarf and sent to an Islamic girls' school."


Compound Sentence

200

Why did Dina go to the hospital as a child?

Dina went to the hospital when she was a child because two boys who were older than her pushed her hand into a doorjamb and slammed it shut strong. This severely damaged her little finger.  Text states, she was escorted to the hospital with one of her fingers wrapped around a paper towel in her hands. 

200

What Sentence Type is the quote below?


"Don't 'ching-chong' at me, you mouth-breather."

Imperative Sentence

300

What Literary Device is Presented in this quote?


"It was Fourth of July… a line of men, women, and children winding around and around the field toward a microphone,"

Allusion 

300

What type of sentence structure is presented in the quote below?


"I refused to deny the simple and vast beauty of it, though I knew they cheered not the old man himself, but his spasm of gratitude, an avowal of transformation into someone new, into them."


Complex Sentence

300

What happened to Dina’s father when the family left?

Dina's father remained in Iran after the family moved. He did not travel with the family because he wanted to remain in his religion and stay input to his society. 

300

what type of sentence is presented in the quote below?

"In 1994, when I was fifteen, we became American citizens."


Periodic Sentence

400

What literary device is presented in the quote below?

"For me, as soon as those words leave the officer's mouth, my confidence is replaced by a gush of gratitude."

Hyperbole

400

That type of sentence structure is presented in the quote below?

"I remember being confused, not at their cruelty, but at their choice of insult."

Complex Sentence

400

What role did religion play in shaping Nayeri's identity and experiences as a refugee?

While Dina was in Iran, she attended an Islamic girls' school and required to wear a headscarf known as “hijab”. These religious practices were a daily part of her life. However, when her mother converted to Christianity, it caused the moral police in Iran to give threats and persecute Dina’s family. At last, the family made a decision to flee the country as asylum seekers. In addition, her converting to Christianity strongly helped her to assimilate in her new land. Therefore, religion was a huge factor that caused a major shift In her life. 

400

What type of sentence is presented in the quote below?


"In 1985, when I was six years old, my family left our home in Isfahan for several months to live in London."

Periodic Sentence

500

 What literary device is presented in the quote below?

 "I let myself believe it. I lost my accent. I lost my hobbies and memories."

Alliteration 

500

What type of sentence structure is presented in the quote below?


"Years passed, and I became as American as a girl can be, moving far away, growing into my mind and body, and surrounding myself with progressive, educated friends."

Compound-Complex Sentence

500

What impact did the expectations of gratitude from others have on Nayeri's sense of self and belonging?

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500

What Type of Sentence is presented in the quote below?

"I have kept that old photograph hidden since the day I threw away my last headscarf, and now it's the bewildered face and parted lips, not the scarf, that capture my interest."

Balanced Sentence