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Literary Terms
Influential People
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Figures of Speech
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What is the main idea in a nonfiction text called?
A central idea.
100
This person freed the slaves.
Abraham Lincoln
100
A strong hatred towards a certain person or group of people.
Animosity
100
A document that freed the slaves.
The Emancipation Proclamation
100
A comparison using like or as.
Simile
200
How an author organizes a text is his/her _______________.
Structure
200
This person refused to get up and move her seat when a white person came on the bus.
Rosa Parks
200
A person who pays their way into America by working for white land owners for a certain number of years.
Indentured Servants
200
The separation of two different groups of people.
Segregation
200
A comparison making two unequal things equal
Metaphor
300
How an author uses word choice and sentence structure is called his/her __________.
Style
300
This person founded and ran a school for African American girls.
Alice L. White
300
Laws that helped keep people of color and white people separated.
Jim Crow Laws
300
To teach someone to accept a set of ideas or beliefs.
Indoctrinate
300
A sound word.
Onomatopoeia
400
A story, article, or speech that is based entirely on facts is what type of story?
Nonfiction
400
This person founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial school for African Americans
Booker T. Washington
400
Angry
Hostile
400
To leave someone out.
Ostracize
400
An exaggeration.
Hyperbole
500
A story that is made up or just based on a true story is what type of story?
Fiction.
500
These people burnt down churches and killed African Americans for senseless reasons.
Ku Klux Klan
500
To be hanged
Lynch
500
To respond to something that was done to you, usually in an angry way
Retaliate
500
Using the same sound several times in the same sentence.
Alliteration