Literary Elements
This literary element refers to the overall message or insight about life that a work of literature conveys.
What is theme?
This poem by Emma Lazarus is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
What is "The New Colossus"?
These words describe or modify nouns.
This technique involves marking important information in a text.
What is annotating?
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This president addressed civil rights in his 1953 State of the Union speech.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
This term describes the author's attitude toward the subject matter or audience.
What is tone?
This novel by Daniel Defoe features a shipwrecked protagonist.
What is "Robinson Crusoe"?
This part of speech expresses action or state of being.
What is a verb?
This skill involves identifying the main arguments or assertions made by an author.
What is identifying claims?
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The war in the 1980s affected relations between the US and El Salvador.
What is the Salvadoran Civil War?
This literary device gives human characteristics to non-human things or ideas.
What is personification?
This poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the story of a doomed ship.
These three words are used to introduce nouns in English (Article Adjectives).
What are a, an, and the?
This type of statement can be verified as true or false.
What is a fact?
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This organization, mentioned in Kaztauskis's autobiography, improved working conditions for immigrants.
What is the Cattle Butchers' Union?
This element refers to hints or clues about future events in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
This autobiographical account describes an immigrant's experience in Chicago's stockyards.
What is "From Lithuania to the Chicago Stockyards: An Autobiography"?
This term refers to the literal or dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
This reading strategy involves making educated guesses based on available information.
What is making an inference?
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This location is the setting for the Festival de Las Flores in "Dancing for Mama."
What is El Salvador?
This technique uses sensory details to create a vivid picture in the readers mind.
What is imagery?
This audio clip discusses a climber's harrowing experience on Mount Everest.
What is "The Ascent"?
This concept describes the emotional or cultural associations a word carries beyond its literal meaning.
What is connotation?
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This advanced reading skill involves examining how an author's choices contribue to the overall meaning.
What is close reading?
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This historical monument is referenced in "The New Colossus" as a contrast to the Statue of Liberty.
What is the Colossus of Rhodes?