The American Dream
1b
Ms B
Grammar
Terms
100

The words "We, the People" are from this important document

The preamble to the Constitution 

100
The 'newest' student in 1b

Alberte

100
Ms B is from this village on Funen

Ørbæk

100

What's wrong here: 

"We talked about that the setting is eerie"

Præposition + that ALDRIG I LIVET

100

What rhetorical device is Churchill using here: 

"We shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island..."

Anaphora

200

What truths to are self-evident according to The Declaration of Independence? 

That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

200

The guys who went swimming on the 'hyttetur'

Benjamin W, Anton, Timo 

200

Ms B's real age

42

200

What's wrong here: 

The main characters mother

Genitiv-apostrof mangler 

200

What rhetorical devise is Obama using here:

"We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths –- that all of us are created equal –- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall;"

Alliteration

300

A place (or a concept of a place) that existed at the edge of civilization in the US between 17th to 20th centuries as European Americans colonized and expanded across North America.

The Frontier

300

Has a sister called Clara

Iben

300
Ms B's shoe size 

43

300

What's wrong here: 

The man do not have a car. 

Kongruens! Der skal være overstemmelse mellem subjekt og verbet i tal og person. 

300

What rhetorical device is Obama using here:

We may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction

Antithesis 

400

These guys wrote the Constitution in the late 1780s

The Founding Fathers 

(George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison)

400

Lives in Båring

Frieda

400

Ms B's favourite beverage 

Wine

400

What's the word class? 

Ms B sings beautifully

Adverb / adverbium 

400

What rhetorical devise is Obama using her:

"to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time"

A metaphor
500

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution is called the ... 

Bill of Rights

500

Won the marshmallow contest on the hyttetur 

Anna (I think)

500

How many children does Ms B have?

4

500

What's the word class? 

The man who Loved Flowers

Relative pronoun 

500

What rhetorical device is Obama using here: 

"Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787."

Allusion