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Academic Vocab
Literary Terms
Early Stories
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100
A work of nonfiction that tells the story of important historical events or developments.
What is Historical Narrative?
100
An author's attitude toward his or her subject matter?
What is Tone?
100
In "A Brother's Crime," what caused Edqin and John to fight the last time they saw each other?
Edwin had voted for Lincoln.
100
What medical condition caused the narrator's mother difficulty throughout, "Escape from Afghanistan"?
What is asthma?
100
Writing r speech that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
200
Focuses on one experience or period in the person's life.
What is memoir?
200
The person who tells the story.
What is a narrator?
200
The majority of the first words that Hellen Keller learned to spell were ___?
What are nouns?
200
Why do travelers advise the two women to buy plastic bags for the trip?
To use if they need to vomit?
200
Formal essay to persuade.
What is a persuasive essay?
300
Formal essay to explain.
What is expository writing?
300
Conversation between characters in a literary work.
What is dialogue?
300
In "Of Dry Goods and Black Bow Ties," why did that narrator's father go to Mr. Shimada?
What to get a job?
300
In "Into Thin Air," what is the author most worried about at the beginning of the essay?
A dwindling supply of oxygen?
300
Story of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
400
Story of a persons life written by someone else.
What is biography?
400
Short written or oral account of an event from a person's life?
What is an anecdote?
400
When Hellen Keller says, "I now had the key to all language," she means that she understood -
That everything has a name.
400
Why did Andy mistake full bottles of oxygen at the beginning of the essay?
A dwindling supply of Oxygen?
400
Short piece of nonfiction in which the writer explores a single topic from his or her own perspective.
What is an essay?
500
Type of persuasive writing, relies on logic, reason, and evidence.
What is argument?
500
Particular order or pattern a writer uses to present ideas?
What is structure?
500
Which of the following did Mr. Shimada stress when telling Uchida's father what would be required of him as an employee?
What is courtesy?
500
What did Edwin Booth decide to do when the theatre closed?
What is he returned to New York?
500
Statement of belief.
What is an assertion?