Who Said It?
If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun.
Benjamin Franklin
In this excerpt, Nicholas Carr said “It’s a cold, misty Friday night in mid-December and you're driving home from your office holiday party. Actually, you're being driven home.”
What is “Your Inner Drone”
WHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to
dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the
Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's
GOD entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare
the Causes which impel them to the Separation.
Periodic Sentence
The cover of each month’s slides are displayed with this.
What is a raccoon
This is the quiz that went horribly for almost everyone at the beginning of the year.
What is MLK?
Which author from this year’s readings remarked “No fifteen-foot python ever wandered onto my school’s basketball court”?
David Sedaris (from “Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa”)
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
Civil Disobedience
The schemes of balance include these three sentence patterns.
What are parallelism, isocolon, antithesis
“On what day did we take the AP Language and Composition Exam (excluding Meg)?”
May 10, 2022
Work that made us want to skip lunch
Food, Inc.
“I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of.” Who said it in which chapter?
Who is Henry David Thoreau in "Economy"
Which text does the line “Once, in a fit of melancholic vanity, I burned my report card in the sink of the KFC I worked at” come from?
“Where I Learned to Read” - Salvatore Scibona
Use of parallel elements similar not only in structure, as in parallelism, but in length. addition of symmetry of length to similarity of structure contributes to the rhythm of sentences
Isocolon
Who wrote "Serving in Florida"?
Barbara Ehrenreich
Name all the seniors we are missing
Krishin, Nina, Lili, Eliza, Ella, Amanda
NO man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights;
Patrick Henry
This text contains the quote “I began to miss the gear stick and the clutch pedal I missed the sense of control and involvement they had given me,”
What is Passengers?
The repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.
What is Assonance?
Ms. McGoldrick's favorite author for tone
E.B. White
Two students whose Show and Tells featured dogs
Lili and Amanda
A new thing in costume appears - the flaring hoopskirt, for example - and the passers-by are shocked, and the irreverent laugh. Six months later everybody is reconciled; the fashion has established itself; it is admired, now, and no one laughs.
Mark Twain
There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension.
Santa Ana Winds
What rhetorical trope is shown in the following phrase? “If you aren’t fired up with energy, you’ll be fired with energy.”
Antanaclasis
What text? "Does anybody here need coffee?"
"Needs"
Show and Tell on car racing?
Who is Nikhil?