Unit 1 Texts
In the text, "American History", the type of conflict in, "But the day Kennedy was shot there was a profound silence in the El Building"?
What is internal conflict?
The type of guilt experienced when a person is the only one who survives a traumatic event.
What is survivors guilt?
Martin Luther King uses this type of appeal in his "I Have A Dream" speech.
What is appeal to emotion?
The appeal used to persuade someone based on logic and reason.
What is an appeal to reason?
The verb that comes after the word to and its modifiers.
Ex: To prove how much he knew was the man's main goal.
What is an infinitive phrase.
The type of prepositional phrase in, "We can only speak of people whose roots in America are older or newer.".
What is an Adjective Phrase?
The impact of including images to a text, such as the text called, "The Voyage of The James Craig from The Endurance".
What is vivid imagery?
The type of line in the poetic phrase, "Nothing really happened" in the poem "Incident".
What is an end stopped line?
A figure of speech not meant to be taken literally. They are expressions specific to certain religion, communities, or languages.
What is an idiom?
Something that is used to introduce a list, a quotation when it is formal or lengthy, or when there is no introductory expression.
What is a colon
The sound device is used in the phrase, "Go slowly over the road."
What is assonance
In the poem, "I Am Offering You This Poem", the poet repeats the phrase "I love you", which is an example of.
What is repetition
The type of rhetorical device used when mentioning historical events that helped the civil rights movement such as the "I Have A Dream" speech.
What is allusion?
An author describes the character directly.
What is direct characterization?
Relates a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
In "The Immigrant Contribution", Kennedy states that immigrants have a type of contribution to American Society.
What is a positive contribution?
In the poem, "Hugging the Jukebox" the author tells an story of one memory. This is what type of poem.
What is a lyric poem?
The name of this stanza from "Incident"(with 4 lines)
"The men left quietly
Nothing really happened
By morning the flames have dimmed
We tell the story every year"
What is a quatrain?
A story within a story. It usually goes back in time to explain a previous event that is important to the main character.
What is a framestory?
A sentence with similar grammatical structures and ideas.
What is parallelism?
Based on the feelings that the author has towards the Chinese Immigration policies In the "Writing on The Wall" the author, the best possible conclusion of the type of connotation she uses in her words is.
What is a negative connotation?
The main type of appeal used in 'Seven Steps to Surviving a Disaster".
What is appeal to authority.
In, "Letter From Birmingham Jail", the point of view Martin Luther King is speaking in is.
What is 1st person point of view?
A character that changes as the story goes on.
What is a dynamic character?
A pronoun that is used as an object in a sentence.
What is an objective case pronoun.