Authorial Choices
"As slow as a sloth" is an example of this authorial choice.
Simile
This word completes the quote, "The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards _________."
Justice
Joe is the mayor of this town.
Eatonville
A shot that seems to peer down on a subject from above is this kind of shot.
High Angle
Mahdokht from Women Without Men turns into this:
A tree
In middle school, you might have called it "word choice"; now, you know it is called this.
diction
This organization is abbreviated as SCLC.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
This woman was Janie's best friend.
Pheoby Watson
This is a single, uninterrupted recording of a shot from start to finish.
Take
The word for written text in an advertisement.
Copy
In English we refer to it as a coming of age story; in German, we would say:
bildungsroman
King's letter was written in response to this group.
Clergymen who had written a letter opposing direct action
This character said, "You got tuh go there tuh know there"
Janie
This technique is when a camera moves across a scene.
Pan/Panning
A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh, blunt, or embarassing.
euphemism
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for the rest of his life" is an example of these TWO authorial choices.
Parallel syntax and metaphor
King was concerned that this group, rather than radical racists, was the greatest obstacle to progress.
The "parson" at the mule funeral belongs to this species.
Buzzard/Vulture
When a character looks directly at the camera.
Breaking the fourth wall.
The name of the ship alleged to house "The Human Project" in Children of Men.
The Tomorrow.
When you anticipate an opponent's counterargument, you are using this authorial choice.
Proctalepsis.
To Black Americans, King argues, the word "wait," sounds more like this word: _______.
Never
This is the birth name of Tea Cake.
Vergible Woods
When music or sound takes place within the world of the story, we call it this.
Diegetic sound
What single word is missing from these two lines?
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every ______ belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every _______ of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death."
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