Grammar Counts
Which sentence by Allen Ginsburg is properly punctuated? Explain.
A. "America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
B. "America I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
C. "America, I've given you all, and now I'm nothing."
What is "C. "America, I've given you all, and now I'm nothing."
At the beginning of good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar injects a voicemail from his parents.
Although Lamar initially present his parents as brash, through this use of _______________ - the use of informal or everyday speech - Lamar subverts the stereotype of urban, impoverished parenthood.
What is "colloquialism?"
What happens to a dream deferred?
Why is one kind of love any different?
What's life for?
This device asks too many questions with not enough answers.
Daily Double: What is the classical Greek word for this device?
"What is "rhetorical question"?
"What is "erotema"?
This musician is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.
Kendrick Lamar uses which device to refer to this musician.
What is "Allusion"?
Who is "John Coltrane"?
Awkward, backward, upward
This student cares about the ”set of principles underlying and guiding the tone, atmosphere, and emotional impact of a text.”
Who is this student? What is this device?
Who is Lexi Ward?
What is aesthetic?
A place where one buys snacks at a game, this rhetorical approach yields a small victory to the opposition to win the larger argument.
What is a “concession”?
Which sentence by Nicole Krauss is properly punctuated? Explain.
A. "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
B. "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
C. "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter, was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering"
What is "A. "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
Man, do I have a story to tell.
Often, to get a point across, speakers relate a relevant episode or story to develop an argument or inject humor.
What is "anecdote"?
Some speakers seem to have written their work while they sat with ire.
In Captain Fantastic, director Matt Ross uses this device to criticize contemporary educational, economical, and religious institutions.
What is "satire"?
In the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie portrays the lives of Native Americans as being too ruff.
Alexie uses this device to compare Junior to...
What is "Analogy"?
Who is "Oscar"?
What is "to illustrate the United States' half-measure treatment of the Native What is "Analogy"?
Who is "Oscar"?
What is "to illustrate the United States' half-measure treatment of the Native
Pathos, Ethos, Lo…
This Aristotlean device refers to persuasion by means of reasoning.
Similarly, this students unassumingly sets the stage for us to read our dialogue (except for Watts).
What is ”logos”?
Who is “logis”?
Properly grammaticize Toni Morrison's following sentence. Explain.
The pieces I am she gathered them and gave them back to me in all the right order
What is "comma after am and period after order"?
"The pieces I am, she gathered them and gave them back to me in all the right order."
Distract, Attract, Subtract, train tracks...
This word means to exist as a thought or idea but not having physical or concrete existence.
It deals with ideas rather than events.
What is "abstract"?
If you think it’s a sin to tax, you might write a long, winding sentence to prove your point.
Similarly, if you think the truth is self-evident, your sentence might be short.
This device focuses on the grammatical arrangement of words.
What is “syntax”?
** Daily Double **
This Drama Desk Award-winning playwright chronicles the life of an impoverished Chicago family as they face the pressures of poverty and segregation while chasing the American Dream in the classic play.
Who is "Lorraine Hansberry in A Raisin in the Sun"?
Veni, vidi…
This student bathes incorrectly, arriving to school with a…
Who is this student? What is her affliction?
Who is “Vivi”?
What is the “stanky leg”?
** Daily Double **
Properly grammaticize Bram Stoker's following sentence
"there are darknesses in life and there are lights and you are one of the lights the light of all lights"
What is "capitalize t, comma after life, comma after lights, comma after lights."?
"There are darknesses in life, and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
To the store went Ana for a...
To the bank went Ana for a...
To the moon went Ana for a...
This repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentence helps a speaker create pacing, accumulation, and coherence.
What is "anaphora"?
Though considered a hurtful nickname for those suffering from the opioid epidemic, this terminology brings to light how we view those suffering from drug abuse and whether their lives are matters of choice and circumstance.
Tangentially, this device groups contradictory terms to suggest a paradox.
What is “oxymoron”?
Kendrick Lamar compares Compton babies to this nocturnal animal.
Similarly, Sarah DeLappe uses this animal as the primary motif for individuality and collectivism.
Explain the intended effects of these comparisons as it relates to both texts.
Peter [blank] picked a peck of pickled [blank]
The sentence above uses the repetition of beginning letters or sound.
The first student is forced to stay for D&D.
The second student has the power to pardon AP English from a Friday test.
What is “alliteration”?
Who is “Piper”?
Who is “Pepper”?
Properly grammaticize Raymond Carver's sentence from "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."
"i could hear the human noise we sat there making not one of us moving not even when the room went dark"
What is "capitalize i, comma after making, comma after moving."
"I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark."
Junior is Oscar
Lady Bird is Marion
Sen is a Worker
Akin to an analogy, the placement of two similar objects side by side to create or hint at an underlying comparison.
What is "parallelism?"
“… this is how you iron your father’s khaki shirt so that it doesn’t have a crease; this is how you iron your father’s khaki pants so that they don’t have a crease…”
Although she presents the mother as uncaring, in “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, she uses ________ – the subversion between expectation and reality — to show how female agency grows within boundaries.
What is “irony”?
This famed civil rights leader wrote one of the most significant speeches of the 20th century as he professed his wish for equality in this famed speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr. in "I have a dream"?
Those with this surname are descendants of Conn, the mythical king of the Hundred Battles.
Other than Zoe, the Greek word for “life”, spell this student’s last name.
What is “Connaughton?”