Literary Devices
When an author gives human like qualities to a non-human object
Personification
J. Woodsons older sister is named..
Odella
the practice of requiring separate housing, bussing, education, and other services for people based on race
Where were Jim Crow Law's followed when Woodson was born? (North or South?)
South
What year was Ms. Spurgeon born
1999
Repetition in a poem
Anaphora
The name of Woodson's little brother
Roman
the struggle for social justice beginning in the 1950's for Black Americans.
civil rights movement
New York City
What is the biggest US State?
Alaska
Poem with 3 lines and 5-7-5 for syllables
Haiku
Woodson's older brother
Hope
the line of people in a family's past
ancestry
A prominent figure during the Civil Rights Movement who gave the famous speech, "I Have A Dream"
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is Ms. Spurgeon's favorite color?
Butter Yellow
a pattern of sound set by the syllables in lines of poetry
Rhythm
Woodson's mother
MaryAnn
mentor
What is the first part of your paragraph? (it answers the prompt)
The claim
Bad Bunny
A series of lines arranged together to create divisions in a poem
Stanza
The narrator of this memoir
Jaqueline Woodson
powerfully persuasive
compelling
Where does evidence come from? And what does it need before and after?
The text!! It needs quotation marks!!
What is the name of the most popular show on Netflix?
Stranger Things