Name:
The man who killed Curley's wife and ends up getting shot
The man who shot him
The godlike "prince of the ranch"
Who are George, Lennie, and Slim?
100
A run-on sentence in which the writer separates the two independent clauses with a comma, but forgets the conjunction word.
What is a comma splice?
100
When a writer describes something with so many sensory details that it creates a picture in the mind.
What is imagery?
100
The secret the narrative hides about the narrator's true identity.
What is the wife is a wolf
100
To kill by hanging without sanction from a court
What is to lynch?
200
This book has a lot of this, which is speaking out loud, as in conversations.
What is dialogue?
200
The explanation for the RACER strategy of answering essay prompts.
What is Restate, answer the question, cite the evidence, explain, and revise?
200
A type of writing in which the author tells a story through a sequence of events.
What is a narrative?
200
The type of poetry in "Without Title"
What is a tribute poem?
200
The capacity to bounce back from something; to be unaffected
What is resilience?
300
People who move often for work in different places.
What is a migrant?
300
The punctuation that can separate two independent clauses without a conjunction word.
What is a semicolon?
300
Comparing two things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
300
A possible them of "Without Title"
What is:
We must honor an effort put into a tradition even after it has passed
A job or the past can be a large part of our identity and when that is gone we are lost
300
When you feel forced to do something
What is compulsion?
400
What started in 1929 and created an economic downturn through the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
400
Which is most important to use in an essay, summarizing or sythesizing?
What is synthesizing?
400
The attitude or feeling an author puts in a piece of writing.
What is tone?
400
The tone of "The Wife's Story"
What is ominous, mysterious, or suspenseful?
400
joint pain
What is rheumatism?
500
These are examples of what:
Sometimes we have to hurt those we love.
Friendships require sacrifice.
The disabled were often marginalized in ranch culture of this era.
What are themes in the story?
500
What are comparing, giving examples, using logic, and defining a word all strategies for?
What are elaboration strategies?
500
What are the two parallel plots in the story?
What is the accident/hospital plot and Aztec chase/sacrifice?
500
The decision the Supreme Court made about flag burning.
What is: The government should encourage but not force respect for the flag?