Literary Devices
A topic the author conveys throughout the story.
What is a theme?
The country that Ishmeal Beah was a child solider in.
Where is Sierra Leone?
The side of the argument you are on.
What is a position?
To be twisted together or connected.
What is entwined?
Who is the youngest and who is the oldest.
Who is Ms. Scott (oldest) and Ms.Castela (youngest)?
The author's use of sensory language to create a mental image for the reader.
What is imagery?
The Wes Moore that went to jail.
Who is Wes Moore #2?
A reason that supports your position.
What is a claim?
A person's unique point of view.
What is perspective?
The teacher that has traveled to Japan.
Who is Ms. Scott?
A lesson or universal truth in a story.
What is a central idea?
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The two things you must do to analyze evidence.
What is explain/interpret evidence and connect it to the claim?
To explain or understand something in a particular way.
The teacher that gave a speech at their college garduation.
Who is Ms.Scott?
A comparison of two things that use like or as.
What is a simile?
Who did the United States support in the Vietnam War.
What is South Vietnam?
The 4 components in an argumentative introduction.
What is a hook, background information, the counterclaim and thesis statement?
The feeling a word evokes different from the literal meaning.
What is connotation?
The one that arrives to school first.
Who is Ms. Castela?
A direct comparison of two things.
What is a metaphor?
The amount of bodies found in Russel Gramercy's lakeside cabin.
What is 9 bodies?
Acknowledging the other side of the argument.
What is a Counterclaim?
The continued act to achieve something despite difficulties.
What is perserverance?
The teacher who goes to Portugal every year.
Who is Ms. Castela?