Figurative Language
The type of figurative language in the following statement: "Life is a skateboard where you have to go with the flow."
What is a metaphor?
This literary style or genre is most closely associated with Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende where the lines between the fantastic and the ordinary are blurred.
What is Magical Realism?
She was the first woman elected as chief of a major Native American tribe.
Who is Wilma Mankiller?
The simple subject of the following sentence: "European colonization of Native American territory had a devestating effect on the native population."
What is "colonization"?
This branch of philosophy explores questions about fairness and the difference between right and wrong.
What is Ethics?
The type of figurative language in this following statement: "The Ohio State vs Michigan football rivalry is the greatest rivalry in all of sports."
What is a hyperbole?
What is "Eleven"?
He is a 19th century Lakota war leader who took up arms against the US goverment to fight white settlers on Native American territory and preserve the Lakota people.
Who is Crazy Horse?
The sentence structure of the following sentence: "Europeans hunted for furs and decimated local wildlife."
What is a simple sentence?
This is when a person uses more than one language instead of focusing narrowly on a single language.
What is translanguaging?
The type of figurative language in the following statement: "Taylor Swift's music is just as brave as a soldier on a battlefield."
What is a simile?
In her essay, "Writing as an Act of Hope," Isabel Allende compares writing to this ancient instrument used for illuminating the dark.
What is a lamp?
He is a 21st century Navajo poet and award-winning writer from Arizona.
Who is Sherwin Bitsui?
The prepositional phrase in the following sentence: "European colonization of Native American territory had a devestating effect on the native population."
These are a collection of interlinked global targets designed to be a shared, international blueprint for peace and prosperity on the planet.
What are the SDGs?
The type of figurative language in the following statement: "The sun's voice is a vibration."
What is personification?
In the story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings," readers watch as the owner of a house deals with crabs by having to "throw them into the sea," which is an example of this type of imagery.
What is kinesthetic imagery?
This namesake of a major American city in the Pacific Northwest famously said, "The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth."
Who is Chief Seattle?
The reason why there is a comma in the following sentence: "Some laws banned certain ceremonies, and others tied whole groups to land that was useless."
The introductory paragraph of a literary analysis often features these three components.
What are a TAG, summary, and thesis?
The type of figurative language in Isabel Allende's claim that "a novel is a key to the labyrinth of history."
What is a metaphor?
In "The House on Mango Street," the narrator's name translates into English as this word.
What is "hope"?
She was the first Native American women in the United States to receive a medical degree.
Who is Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte?
What is a "run-on sentence," or "comma splice"?
This branch of philosophy explores issues around knowledge, belief, doubt, and the nature of truth.
What is Epistemology?