Vocabulary Origin/Latin roots
What could be a suitable Latin Suffix to these English words: Arrival, Intentional, Global, Survival, Central.
What is -al
Name a word which means Existing in space; relating to or occupying space. Adj.
What is Spatial
Name one of Mark Twain's work
What is Life on the Mississippi, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country.
State the Literary work present in this stanza from Cloudy day by Jimmy Santiago Baca:
"Sometimes it is such a dream, a dream,"
What is Repetition
Twain shares his keen observations of human weakness, which he usually describes with affection. Twain looked back on his friends and neighbors fondly, but he also points out their flaws. What is this called?
What is Social commentary
What could be a suitable Latin root word to these English words: Host, Hospital, Hospitality, Hostel, Hotel.
What is Hospes, Hospit
What's the word for a feeling of deep respect for someone or something; regard or treat with deep respect; Noun/Verb.
What is Reverence
What happened after Jimmy Santiago Baca ran away from home at age 13 and what is it's significance
What is he served a five year prison sentence where he discovered a deep passion of poetry
How is Personification used in Wilderness by Carl Sandburg
What is Human attributes and emotion are given animal qualities
Lopez wrote A literature of place primarily to inform, persuade, or entertain
What is to persuade
Define Intransigent
Latin root: transigere (to come to an agreement)
What is unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something
What is filth; wretchedness; dirty; unpleasant
Name a work Zora Neale Hurston wrote
What is Dust Tracks on a Road, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mules and Men.
Is an example of end-stopped lines
A.
The wind was sharp and cold across the hill
where broken branches whispered of the storm
B.
The wind was sharp and cold across the hill;
The trees stood silent, rigid in the chill.
C.
The wind was sharp and cold across the hill
— cutting through bone and bending every will —
What is B
The story White Heron suggests that innocence is more valuable than..
What is Money/Material gain
Define Crepuscular
Latin root word: crepusculum (twilight)
What is resembling or relating to twilight; (of an animal) appearing or active in twilight (before sunrise or after sunset)
Define Loiter
What is to linger; move slowly
Mark Twain's real name
What is Samuel Clemens
State the Literary work present in this stanza from Chicago by Carl Sandburg:
"Building, breaking, rebuilding"
What is Alliteration
Is the fundamental topic of nature writing according to Barry Lopez
What is the fundamental topic of nature writing concerns our lack of connection to a sense of place and the natural world
Define Sesquipedalian
Latin root: sesqui- (one and a half) + pes, pedis (foot)
What is (of a word) polysyllabic; characterized by long words
Define Extrapolate
What is to predict by projecting past experiences or known data; extend the application of (a method or conclusion) to an unknown situation by assuming that existing trends will continue or similar methods will be applicable
This author was able to use art to make enormously important social and political points that still resonate today and is regarded one of the true giants of American theater
What is Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Irony, Oxymoron, Assonance
Why does Momaday in The Way to Rainy Mountain combine myth, history, and personal memory instead of telling the story in just one way?
What is because identity is formed through multiple layers of experience — cultural myth, historical fact, and personal memory all work together to shape who we are.