My Father Sun-Sun Johnson
Figures of Speech
Literary Elements
Poetry
General
100

The author of my Father, Sun-Sun Johnson. (Provide full name)

Cyril Everard Palmer

100

The figure of speech used in the following: "his eyes were laughing" 

Personification

100

Parts of a story is called:  

literary elements

100

The author of: "We Real Cool"

Gwendolyn Brooks

100

Personification is:

Giving human characteristics or life to things/objects that are non-human. 

200

The birth place of the author of My Father Sun-Sun Johnson. 

Hanover, Jamiaca

200

metaphor is:

The comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

200
List 5 literary elements 

setting, character, plot, conflict, narrator, theme, mode, tone. (Any 5 of these are correct) 

200

The "We" in We Real cool poem refers to:

The 7 boys

200

Name Rami's two siblings 

Arlene and Brad

300

The narrator of the story 

Rami

300

Simile is a figure of speech that compares two things without the use of like or as. 

False

300

Important events and actions in the story/the sequence of events that happen in a story.

Plot

300

A theme from the poem

Rebellion

300

"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of

Hyperbole 

400

The source of Father’s hurt in Chapter 6

Ma's marriage to Jake

400

Figure of speech is a literary device that is a word or phrase that possesses a separate meaning from its literal definition. (True or False)

True

400

Define the literary element setting and give and example. Use the text My Father Sun Sun Jonson to provide the example.

When and where a story takes place/the time and place a story occurs. 

Example: Robin Hill/River bottom

400

the setting of the poem 

In a bar

400

The method Rami used to sell his goats?

Auction

500

Three things Rami did when he got home from the market. (chapter 6)

1. Unhitched the mule and tied her to eat grass.

2. Unloaded the stuff Mrs. Hilcher bought.

3. Tend the goats.

500

The repetition of vowel sounds (not just letters) in words that are close together. The sounds don't have to be at the beginning of the word.

Assonance

500

Exposition is an element of Plot. Exposition is: 

The beginning of the story where the author introduces the main characters of the story, including their physical description, behaviours, history, motivation, fears and relationship to other characters.

500

The reason for describing the boys as rebellious 

The skip school to play pool and drink at a bar.

500

Explain this statement as it relates to Chapters 4 & 5 in "My Father Sun-Sun Johnson": "A horse shouldn't be too proud to carry his own grass"

Someone should not be too proud that profit or benefit him or her.