Rhetorical Devices
Poetry
Research
Unbroken
Story-telling
100

2 kinds of comparisons between objects

What are Metaphor, Simile, Juxtaposition   OR   

(other RDs the student can justify are comparisons between objects)

100

1 of 3 of America's most popular 19th century poets

Who is Walt Whitman   OR

Robert Frost    OR

Emily Dickinson?

100

Helps organize the research

What is the outline?

100

3 characteristics of Louis Zamperini as a child & teen

What are: A Fast Runner, a Thief, Rude to people in authority, A person who never sits still, etc.?

100

Method helping to state concepts in as few words as possible

What is Summarizing and/or Bulleting

200

Phrases unique to a language, culture or region, where literal and figurative meanings differ from each other

What are Idioms?

200

American poet who used lowercase for almost all words in his poetry

Who is e.e.cummings?

200

Gives purpose to the paper

What is the Thesis

200

Structure of Unbroken

What are Parts and Chapters?

200

3 of the 4 things the 1st 2 lines of a narrative sets

What are the Characters, Setting, Tone, and Purpose?

300

Intentional exaggeration

What is Hyperbole?

300

How American poets in the 19th century wrote their poetry.

What is Breaking all the Rules?

300

Gives credit where credit is due

What is the Works Cited?

300

3 Plausible Themes in Unbroken

What are: Survival, War, Hope, Differing World Views, Importance of Relationships (or anything repeated in the book that a student can verify)?

300

Transformation story characters undergo

What is Character Development?

400

1 Rhetorical Devise that uses sounds in words to create meaning

What are Assonance   OR   

Consonance    OR

Alliteration?

400

1 notable Black American poet of the 20th century.

Who is Langston Hughes   OR

Countee Cullen   OR

Maya Angelou?

400

Makes the paper more clear

What is the Editing Process?

400

Sustained Louis, Pete & Mac (for a while) on the ocean raft.

What is HOPE?

400

How a story-teller keeps readers interested in the story

What is Sending the Plot through Twists & Turns?

500

References referred to by an attribute or references referred to by using a part to describe the whole

What are Metonymy and Synecdoche?

500

1 of the 20th century American poetry movements

What is Harlem Renaissance   OR

Beat Movement   OR

Confessional Poetry?


500

Website to consult about research.

What is PURDUE OWL      OR

MLA Scribbr

500

With what Louis (and other POWs) returned to the states after the war

What is PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)?   OR

Describe some symptoms: extreme anger, triggers from unrelated events, nightmares, etc.

500

High-interest way a short story sometimes ends

What is With a Twist Ending?