Women's Rights Unit
“America and I” - Anzia Yezierska expresses her feelings for Russia as being a place filled with promise or suppression?
Suppression. She came to America filled with optimism for better opportunity!
a comparison using like or as
What is a memoir?
a personal account of an event, a season or a memory that is generally very personal
What is the rule to using a semicolon in your writing?
Semicolons must connect two independent clauses.
Mary Shelley used _______________ in order to tell the multiple perspectives and backstories of all the characters in Frankenstein.
flashbacks
Roaring
Define personification.
giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object
Who was Benazir Bhutto?
the first female prime minister of Pakistan who was assassinated on live television
What is the problem with this MLA in-text citation?
“That sweat-shop was a bitter memory but a good school” (Yezierska p.5).
It should read: (Yezierska 5).
Victor found inspiration in learning about electricity, mathematics, and sciences after...
he saw the destruction left from a storm when he was 15 years old.
Anzia values ________________________ the most as she prefers working in a factory with a set amount of hours rather than at the home of the affluent American family.
time to herself
“My eyes were jumping out of my head to them when I saw them coming in and seating themselves by the table” is an example of ________________.
Hyperbole
The killing of ___________ is forbidden according to the Pashtuanwali code.
women
When is the only time you can use an in-text citation without the author's last name?
When it is already mentioned in the sentence.
Why does Victor refer to himself as the true murderer who cannot be comforted?
The 19th amendment, passed in 1920, gave women the right to:
“I shrank back into myself like a low-down bargainer” is an example of____________.
simile
Malala was given the opportunity to submit _____________ as an anonymous writer, someone who was experiencing life in Pakistan under the influence/control of the Taliban.
journal entries
What are the five steps to reading/analyzing new text?
Determine if the title is literal or abstract, read additional information, define unknown words, look over questions, read and annotate the text.
When the audience knows information that some or all characters do not know, this is known as:
dramatic irony
What evidence supports why Mrs. Wright would have a bird?
Mr. Wright was known as a cold man who was not home very much.
“But man is in a tight place, the poor slave is on him, woman is coming on him, and he is surely between a hawk and a buzzard” is an example of a _________.
metaphor
What type of defiance did Malala and her classmates participate in when the Taliban and the radio mullah declared school as haram?
silent protest
One way in which commas are appropriate in sentences is when you have an introductory phrase, this is consider a ___________ clause.
dependent
The Monster demanded, "Do your duty towards me and I will leave you in peace, but refuse, and I’ll murder all your friends”. What was he asking of Victor?
To create him a mate/wife